A sweeping historical analysis of the complex relationship between social criticism and built form, Emancipating Space examines the intercon...

Robin Milner presents a unified structural theory for modelling networks of agents that is destined to have far-reaching significance. More...

This guide presents profiles of 80 jobs in the three major areas of the aviation industry—air transportation, aerospace manufacturing, ...

Human civilization has evolved to the point at which we can consider tapping space resources and expanding beyond Earth's atmosphere. The In...

Space Shuttle Columbia is the first book to tell the story of the most successful spacecraft ever developed. The world's first truly reusabl...

Portrayed by Klerkx (a former senior manager of the SETI Institute) as a "hydra-headed agency" with many masters, bureaucratically hidebound...

The stars have always called us, but only for the past forty years or so have we been able to respond by traveling in space. This book explo...

Both state-space models and Markov switching models have been highly productive paths for empirical research in macroeconomics and finance. ...

Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s...

In SPACE RESCUE - Lifeboats for manned spacecraft, author David J. Shayler reviews the development of crew survival and escape methods from ...

In light of increased concern about the impact on human health of damp interiors—from breaches of the building envelope, failures of wa...

Spaceplanes into Orbit presents a vision of the near future in which space vehicles can take off from an international airport, refuel in sp...