What are Comets? - Astronomy
Comets are essentially leftovers from the solar system's formation, originating from the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt. Despite such a benign-sounding description, comets make for interesting study and viewing, with a fascination leading back to ... [... more]
Bella Online |
How to Learn More about Mayan Cosmology and Spirituality
Want to know more about the ancient people who invented Zero and the calendar? Here's how... Investigate on the Internet. The internet has a lot of good information about the Mayans and their history and culture. A common misconception is that ... [... more]
eHow |
Pablo Amaringo
The mythologies and cosmology of Amazonian shamanism materialize in fantastic color and style in this unique, large-format volume, representing the fruit of several years of collaboration between a Peruvian folk artist/shaman and a Colombian ... [... more]
Random House |
Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of a telescope, ... [... more]
Random House |
Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall is an expert on particle physics, string theory, and cosmology. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, she has been a tenured professor at Princeton, ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Space Elevators - An Introduction - Astronomy
Imagine a cable extending from Earth's surface right into space - an "elevator" for transporting cargo, supporting manned missions and even space tourism. This is the basic idea that is the space elevator, also called orbital tethers, space [... more]
Bella Online |
Universe - Book Review - Astronomy
I own several excellent astronomy textbooks, and this is undoubtedly my favourite. It is a mandatory text for several college-level astronomy courses, though it may also benefit high school students. While I'm sure it is useful supplement to ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Chaco Astronomy: An Ancient American Cosmology
 Astronomical expressions found throughout the architecture and art of the ancient Chaco culture: During the summer solstice in 1977, researcher Anna Sofaer was high on a butte in New Mexico's western deserts when she observed a single shaft of light [... more]
$24.95
Amazon.com |
The Milky Way Galaxy and Statistical Cosmology, 1890-1924
Book Description: Between 1890 and 1924 the dominant view of the Milky Way galaxy was quite different from that accepted today. Drawing on previously unused archival material, this text presents the first complete examination of the rise and decline of [... more]
$55.00
Amazon.com |
Relativity, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Offers an analysis of elementary particles, astrophysics and cosmology: Radoje Belusevic's 2-volume set RELATIVITY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY offers an analysis of elementary particles, astrophysics and cosmology and also is a pick for college-level [... more]
$430.00
Amazon.com |
The Universe at Large: Key Issues in Astronomy and Cosmology
Book Description: The Universe at Large presents a unique survey of the key questions outstanding in contemporary astronomy and cosmology. In this timely volume, eleven of the world's greatest living astronomers and cosmologists present their personal [... more]
$95.00
Amazon.com |
Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science
Outstanding overview of Academic Injustice: I was taught to respect Science, not only because of the rigors required to obtain a degree, but because the quality of the character of the scientist -- a scientist is suppose to put aside their own prejudices [... more]
$25.00
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