Redmond Magazine, May 2008

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Better Software Magazine, May 2008

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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
ISBN: 0345379187
Paperback: 120 pages
Date: 1998
Format: PDF
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This is the last book written by renowned American astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan before his death in 1996.The book is a collection of essays Sagan wrote covering diverse topics like global warming, the population explosion, extraterrestrial life, morality, and the abortion debate. The last chapter is an account of his struggle with myelodysplasia, the disease which finally took his life in December 1996. Sagan’s wife, Ann Druyan, wrote the epilogue of the book after his death.

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Publisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 3540223460
Paperback: 236 pages
Date: December 22, 2004
Format: PDF
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For a quantitative understanding of the physics of the universe - from the solar system through the milky way to clusters of galaxies all the way to cosmology - these edited lecture notes are perhaps among the most concise and also among the most critical ones: Astrophysics has not yet stood the redundancy test of laboratory physics, hence should be wary of early interpretations. Special chapters are devoted to magnetic and radiation processes, supernovae, disks, black-hole candidacy, bipolar flows, cosmic rays, gamma-ray bursts, image distortions, and special sources. At the same time, planet earth is viewed as the arena for life, with plants and animals having evolved to homo sapiens during cosmic time.

This text is unique in covering the basic qualitative and quantitative tools, formulae as well as numbers, needed for the precise interpretation of frontline phenomena in astrophysical research. The author compares mainstream interpretations with new and even controversial ones he wishes to emphasize.

The second edition includes numerous updates throughout the book and, in addition, it contains a list of alternative explanations to astrophysical findings that can be seen as a serious testing ground for young scientists.

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Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Language: English
ISBN: 0071412131
Paperback: 592 pages
Date: 2003
Format: PDF
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In this book, we’ll go on a few “mind journeys.” For example, we’ll take a tour of the entire Solar System, riding hybrid space, aircraft into the atmospheres and, in some cases, to the surfaces of celestial bodies other than Earth. Some of the details of this trip constitute fiction, but the space vehicles and navigational mechanics are based on realistic technology and astronomical facts.

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Language: English
ISBN: 0750304057
Paperback: 232 pages
Date: August 1, 2002
Format: PDF
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Provides a comprehensive account of the ideas underlying modern cosmology… . Problems are included to help the reader who wishes to gain a working knowledge of the subject.
- IEE INSPEC
One will appreciate that the work is completely up-to-date and takes account of recent and significant developments in the subject.
- L’Astronomie
Let it be said at the outset that Raine and Thomas have written a very good book [They] already compete well with other books in this market, and their book has the potential to become the text that lecturers still have to dream about.
- John Peacock, The Observatory, vol. 122

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