One of America's best-known essayists on science, physicist Jeremy Bernstein, here presents his latest collection of work. Drawn from over ten years of writing for magazines such as The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and…
A Traveler's Guide to Mars revitalizes the Red Planet, leaving readers with the urge to don a spacesuit and take a long trip. With the look and heft of a guide to someplace you might actually go, the book presents Mars as a place of canyons and…
What star is that? Where is the Southern Cross? Who was Orion? This book answers these questions and many more. Its unique simplified maps make it easy to find the constellations in the southern hemisphere skies, and the stars within them. Clear…
The purpose of this book is to provide, for the student, a complete set of activities to supplement the factual material presented in an astronomy textbook. Some of the activities are short enough to be done in class and hence supplement a lecture…
Het International Space Station is de meest ambitieuze technische uitdaging die ooit is aangegaan. Aan de bouw van het ISS op 400 km boven de aarde, is begonnen in 1998. 6 landen leveren materialen en kennis, waaronder Nederland. Op deze DVD kunt u…
In Ons Zonnestelsel maak je een spannende reis door de ruimte en worden de geheimen van het heelal ontraadseld.
Ontdek hoe de aarde zo'n 4600 miljoen jaar geleden is ontstaan. Lees over de atmosfeer die leven op onze planeet mogelijk maakt en over de…