This book will be the first English on space law written by a Chinese scholar. With the rapid development of space activities in China, many space ...

Space exploration is an immense and expanding field. The quest for knowledge about space has resulted in hundreds of very important technologies wh...

This book presents a wide spectrum of in-depth analyses detailing the US space program including policy, the space stations, the shuttles, and spac...

CD-ROM and Book. The Space Shuttle is one of the great triumphs of modern technology. 122 feet long, capable of carrying 65,000 pounds of cargo and...

Welcome Aboard! Space is only 100 miles away from anywhere on Earth. Since the early 1980s a small group of visionaries have been pioneering the fr...

Space transportation is one of the most essential elements for enabling activities in space. For current rockets, reliability is too low and launch...

No Victorian parlor was complete without a Staffordshire Spaniel on the mantel. This fascinating text focuses exclusively on these popular Victoria...

This fascinating, detailed book provides a sweeping survey of the hats produced by the company whose name is synonymous with cowboys and the Wild W...

The Skyscraper Falcon takes readers to the fifty-sixth floor to view the remarkable life cycle of the peregrine falcon. In the spring of 1994, a pe...

Renowned wilderness writer T H Watkins offers a portrait of remote areas of the fragile and beautiful canyonlands of Utah. He gives us a panorama o...

Stouts, millers, and forky-tails (a.k.a. deerfly, moths, and earwigs) are just three of more than 200 fascinating insects, spiders, and other arthr...

A colorful look at 3.5 billion years of stromatolites, peculiar structures produced by primitive life forms that lived over vast spans of geologic ...

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of vertebrate blood proteins. The analysis of fish proteins require special attention because of their ...

A lone wild wolf lives on a small group of uninhabited islands in British Columbia’s Salish Sea, surrounded by freighter, oil tanker and other boat...

Did you know that Illinois's state fossil is the weird-looking Tully Monster, which had eyes on a pair of stalks and an elephant-like trunk that en...

For bear lovers and advertising buffs alike, collectors and non-collectors, this book is a must; it is destined to become "the" definitive referenc...

In a remarkably fresh, sometimes humorous style, wildlife artist Catherine Clark captures the birds around us in her art. These are the avian creat...

By 1912 the large-scale cowboy ranches of the Old West had been disappearing for years and the Calgary Stampede -- along with other exhibitions, li...