The newest book in The Rightful Place of Science series from Arizona State University's Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Future Conflict & Emerging Technologies…
Edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn
Why should we go to space? To learn more about the universe and our place in it? To extract resources and conduct commerce? To demonstrate national primacy and technological prowess? To…
Edited by Jason Scott Robert, Ed Finn and David H. Guston
Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author…
Edited by Arthur J. Russell, Richard G. Newhauser and Herbert L. Kessler
This volume examines afresh how the introduction of ancient and Arabic optical theories transformed 13th-century thinking about vision, how scientific learning came to be reconciled with…
This innovative volume offers a comprehensive account of the study of language change in verb meaning in the history of the English language. Integrating both the author’s previous body…
Following in the footsteps of Jim Bell’s successful "The Space Book," "Mars 3-D," and "Moon 3-D," this large-format volume offers space enthusiasts an unparalleled visual experience of…
We live in a truly golden age of astronomy and space exploration that may allow us to unravel some of the biggest mysteries of all: How did the Universe begin? Are there other Earth-like…
"Voyager 1" left the solar system in 2012; its sister craft, "Voyager 2," did so in 2015. The fantastic journey began in 1977, before the first episode of "Cosmos" aired. The mission was…
A photographic survey of the surface of Mars, culled from the mobile robot missions to the red planet's surface, features more than 150 full-color prints and four large-width gatefold…
Planetary scientist Jim Bell leads us on another exhilarating tour of the Red Planet — and this revised, expanded edition of "Mars 3-D" includes the latest images from NASA's…