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  How are mountains formed? Why are there old and young mountains? Why do the shapes of South America and Africa fit so well together? Why is the Pacific surrounded by a ring of volcanoes and earthquake prone areas while the edges of the Atlantic are relatively peaceful?Frisch and Meschede and Blakey answer all these questions and more [...]

• Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts

  Roger E. Bilstein’s Flight in America has won acclaim as the foremost history of one of the twentieth century’s landmark achievements—human flight. In this revised and expanded third edition, Bilstein chronicles changes in military, commercial, and space aviation in the 1990s. He offers a glimpse of the developments one might expect in the new millennium. [...]

• The Science Of Aliens

  If extraterrestrials ever landed on Earth, they would find us extremely strange. Their first intimation of our existence might well be a Super Bowl broadcast or a stray transmission from the Playboy channel. But, of course, they might seem equally strange to us. How strange? Their senses could be entirely different from ours—they might see [...]

• Universe: The Solar System

  This is an abbreviated volume of Universe by Freedman et al., focusing on the solar system. Known for their state-of-the-science coverage, the various Universe books place the basics of astronomy and the process of science within the grasp of introductory students. The 4th edition has been updated with new material and new discoveries. Related posts [...]

• The Space Shuttle: A Photographic History

  With one hundred full-color photographs by Roger Ressmeyer and others and with text by popular astronomy writer Phil Harrington, “The Space Shuttle: A Photographic History” tells the fascinating and inspiring story of the space shuttle program from 1972 to 2003. In over a hundred missions aboard six different shuttles, hundreds of astronauts from around the [...]