The Case for Mars

Michael E. Bakich

1,001 Celestial Wonders to See Before You Die: The Best Sky Objects for Star Gazers

Many deep-sky objects that can appear quite wonderful in photographs can be hard to observe in the telescope. This book is your guide to the more interesting nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies, objects that will bring gasps when you see them through a telescope. Author Michael E. Bakich shows you how to spot constellations you've heard of but haven't been able to find. He gives you lists of bright deep-sky objects to target on clear nights. And he guides your search for the famous named splendors you've heard of - and perhaps seen a picture of - and would like to see through your own telescope. Bakich, an observer since he was in third grade, knows the sky better than most. In his current position as senior editor and also photo editor for the highly regarded Astronomy magazine, he has the technical expertise and finely honed communication skills to help you easily locate the best sites in the sky. His more than 250 astroimages help you identify the detail in these sky wonders. Bakich organizes his 1,001 objects according to their best viewing months, so anytime is a good time to pick up this book and start observing. As long as you know what month it is, just head for that ...

Joanne Baker

50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Kepler's law of planetary motion and Newton's law of gravitation, Joanne Baker unravels the sometimes baffling complexities of modern scientific theory - from Planck's law to Pauli's exclusion principle and from Schrondinger's cat to string theory. The essays are accompanied by a range of useful editorial features, including biographies of iconic physicists, timelines of related ideas, explanatory diagrams and display quotations.

Jonathan Gray

64 Secrets Still Ahead of Us

64 ways in which an earlier forgotten science and technology was superior to our own. These are not merely ancient secrets-but knowledge way ahead of our own 21st century. Sixty-four ways in which an earlier, forgotten science and technology was superior to our own...today. You will learn of secret formulas that could revolutionize modern aviation, construction and medicine-advanced secrets our world once knew, and has forgotten. Discover how some geniuses of antiquity soared into inventions and plucked knowledge that our 21st century is just beginning to nudge. You may well ask, what else did they know, that we don't? Art techniques which we cannot copy...super micro technology...sub-ocean tunneling...invisibility...time viewing devices...lamps that never go out...WHAT NEXT