Books

By: Laurance Doyle

36 articles by 62 experts in the fields of astrophysics, planetary science, and exobiology. Carl Sagan introduces this landmark book on "cosmoecology"-the ecology of the Universe-what enables planet formation, stability, and habitability?

• 1000 bibliographic references
• 30 BW photos
• 150 charts/illustrations
   

By: Peter Jenniskens

•  First results 1999 Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign
•  First results USAF Leonid global monitoring program
•  Morphology and composition of cometary dust
•  Meteors as vehicles for delivery of organic matter to early Earth
•  Impact of meteoroids on the Earth's upper atmosphere
•  Meteoric debris and interplanetary dust particles
•  Meteoric plasma and aerothermochemistry
•  Predictions for future Leonid storm encounters
  
  Out of Print.

By: Douglas A Vakoch

Doing for others--altruism--is arguably one of the most human of our activities. Arguable too are the origins of altruism: biology, psychology, culture, all of the above? Researchers have been exploring all three in intriguing lines of inquiry. But as the world grows smaller, culture grows as a major dimension in how, and why, people help others.

By: Pascal Lee

Learn about what it takes to send humans to Mars--from spacesuits and rovers to surviving subzero temperatures and raging dust storms.

By: Seth Shostak, Jill Tarter

Features chapters by SETI Institute Bernard Oliver Chair, Jill Tarter and SETI Institute Senior Astronomer, Seth Shostak. With over 500 planets now known to exist beyond the Solar System, spacecraft heading for Mars, and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, this timely book explores current ideas about the search for life in the Universe. It contains candid interviews with dozens of astronomers, geologists, biologists, and writers about the origin and range of terrestrial life and likely sites for life beyond Earth.