Born to Explore examines a transitional period of space history, when planetary exploration faced threats from an adversarial space shuttle program that consumed the lion's share of NASA funding.

Uploaded May 2026

A comprehensive illustrated exploration of the fascinating science of color Arielle and Joann Eckstut, authors of The Secret Language of Color, offer a thorough, readable, and highly visual exploration of the science of color.

Uploaded May 2026

No matter how much our lives may have moved indoors, no matter how much we may rely on technology, we still monitor the weather. Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century draws from folkloric, literary, and scientific theory to offer up new ways of thinking about this most ancient of phenomena.

Uploaded May 2026

From a distinguished geoscientist and author and a rising-star planetary scientist, a stunningly ambitious proposal for a new natural law of evolution and increasing order in the cosmos.

Uploaded May 2026

If you ever regretted not taking physics in college--or simply want to know how to think like a physicist--this is the book for you. In this bestselling introduction, physicist Leonard Susskind and hacker-scientist George Hrabovsky offer a first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur.

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Smoluchowski's research on cause and chance led to the introduction of probability calculus into physics. His theory of the criterion of utility answers the questions of how science develops and how we verify hypotheses and theories.

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Witness the unfolding history of the universe as you turn each page of The Grand Cosmic Story, a brilliant and beautiful volume sure to fascinate anyone interested in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology.

Uploaded May 2026

The Giant Leap is a detailed and provocative exploration of what it means for life as we know it to escape the bounds of the only planet where it has ever been. In The Giant Leap, astrobiologist Caleb Scharf argues that our journey into space isn't simply a giant leap for humankind—it's life's next great transition, an evolution of evolution itself.

Uploaded May 2026

IAU Symposium 283 brought together experts from a variety of countries to present new results including: those from IPHAS and HERSCHEL; the detection of fullerenes in our galaxy and its neighbors; a new catalogue of about 600 planetary nebulae spectra; and the latest three-dimensional models of the common envelope phase.

Uploaded May 2026

Lectures on Electromagnetic Field Theory: A Comprehensive Overview is for entry-level graduate students in electrical and computer engineering who want to have a comprehensive understanding of electromagnetic theory and its practical applications.

Uploaded May 2026