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A modern pedagogical treatment of the latest industry trends in rocket propulsion, developed from the authors' extensive experience in both industry and academia. Students are guided along a step-by-step journey through modern rocket propulsion,…

it has an enormous amount of information concentrated into relatively few pages. The format, similar to an internet FAQ, makes it easy to navigate. Whilst nothing is covered in great depth, the book serves its purpose of giving enough information to…

Spectroscopy - once the sole province of professionals - is becoming more and more popular with amateur astronomers. Various instruments, at prices to suit everyone, are already available "off the shelf". "Practical Amateur Spectroscopy" contains…

Where does our fascination with the Apocalypse come from? Is time cyclical or linear? Can society survive without ideology? Can children be philosophers? Four great witnesses of our closing century examine our preoccupations at the end of this…

Een overzicht van de ideeën van Hawking over de oorsprong van het heelal, voorzien van achtergrondinformatie en geïllustreerd met o.a. computeranimatie en filmfragmenten

'Weinig onderzoekers die op een zo hoog niveau van abstractie wetenschap bedrijven, zijn in staat om zo boeiend, helder en humoristisch voor een breed publiek over hun wetenschap te schrijven.' Elsevier 'Stephen Hawking, briljante geest in 'n verlamd…

Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all…

Stephen Hawking (1942) werd exact 300 jaar na de dood van Galileo Galilei geborden. In Cambridge nam hij plaats op de leerstoel waar ook Isaac Newton zat. Hawking wordt gezien als een van de briljantste theoretische natuurkundigen van deze tijd.…

Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with non-scientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme…