High order harmonic generation (HHG) produced by the interaction of an intense laser pulse and a gas medium can provide a table top scale coherent ...

The Pilots' Information File (PIF) was the standard reference for any general information required of USAAF pilots and flight engineers. The PIF co...

This book is primarily concerned with fundamental components of solar physics, terrestrial geophysics and general climate issues. Phenomena such as...

This book is primarily concerned with fundamental components of solar physics, terrestrial geophysics and general climate issues. Phenomena such as...

This book offers a new concept of the possible genesis of primary forms of living matter in the processes that accompany a hypervelocity meteorite ...

Think Art Deco and be transported to the Roaring '20s, a time of flappers, double-breasted, pin striped suits, speakeasies, decadence, and elegance...

This book presents several years of research into the history of America's post-World War II M-1 Helmet. It provides the most comprehensive look in...

This book intends to provide readers an open invitation to liberate themselves and leave aside caution from meteorites threat, which is widely spre...

This book is a ricochet against mainstream physics. It sprang out of the idea that outer symmetries of space-time are the same as inner symmetries ...

In this volume of Primordial Space it is explained how unpredictable quanta of the strong and electroweak force can bring forth both a macro-space-...

It is expected that ongoing advances in optics will revolutionise the 21st century as they began doing in the last quarter of the 20th. Such fields...

Nonlinear optics(NLO) is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in non-linear media, that is, media in which the dielectric pol...

An optical fiber (or fibre) is a glass or plastic fibre that carries light along its length. Fibre optics is the overlap of applied science and eng...

This book presents new and important research on optical fibres. An optical fibre is a glass or plastic fibre designed to guide light along its len...

The moon landing remains the most astonishing and impressive accomplishment of manned space travel to this day. In July 1969, just eight years afte...

The moon landing remains the most astonishing and impressive accomplishment of manned space travel to this day. In July 1969, just eight years afte...

In just two-and-a-half years, beginning in 1964, two unmanned and ten manned flights took place in the Gemini program. This program was the turning...

Project Mercury was America's entry into the manned spaceflight program. When the program began in 1958, the Soviet Union was far ahead of the US i...

Pulsars are highly magnetised, rotating neutron stars that emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation. The radiation can only be observed when the be...

This book studies the electrical, optical and structural properties of the Be-oped GaInas/AlGaAs multiple quantum-well structures (MQWs) at differe...

White organic light-emitting devices (WOLED's) are of considerable interest owing to their attractive characteristics and potential application to ...

For twenty-five years, it was the author's job to watch and examine the Soviet Army for a possible conflict, and to understand the Soviet Army's us...

The Republic Aviation Corporation F-84 series, the Thunderjet, Thunderstreak, and Thunderflash was the United States Air Forces' first Post World W...

A diversity of methodological approaches has been used in ecology to generate species distribution models (SDMs) and their amount has increased sig...

Rocket Science. Two words which are synonymous with complexity. Two words which for many people signify the zenith of human genius. A phrase which ...

Eugen Sänger's proposed manned, bi-fuel, liquid rocket-powered orbital bomber was truly mid-1940s high tech. The world's first intercontinental bom...

Without the mighty Saturn V rocket, the Apollo 11 moon landing would not have been possible in July 1969. Even today, nearly fifty years later, it ...

This book covers the primary armored fighting vehicle of the Panzer-Grenadiers, the SchÃ"tzenpanzerwagen.

This new book covers the great variety of secret and largely unknown German missile programs: GUIDED MISSILES: Ruhrstahl/Kramer X1 "Fritz-X", Hensc...

Now in its 5th edition, Shiphandling for the Mariner is the classic and definitive text on the art of practical shiphandling skills for large, mode...

Now in its 5th edition, Shiphandling for the Mariner is the classic and definitive text on the art of practical shiphandling skills for large, mode...

Originally designed in 1952 as an anti-submarine warfare platform for the U.S. Navy, almost two-thousand Sikorsky H-34s have served on every contin...

In The Sikorsky HH-52A, noted historian Lennart Lundh presents this diminutive helicopter's story for the first time. Covered are design details, i...

This book presents the history of the second largest arms manufacturer in Europe, the Skoda Works, and of those of its heavy guns that were transpo...

With the ongoing miniaturisation of components, the utility of smaller satellites is increasing. Many believe in the near future that small satelli...

In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the structure, formation and exploration of the solar system. Topics discussed i...

Human spaceflight at NASA began in the 1960s with the Mercury and Gemini programs leading up to the Apollo moon landings. After the last lunar land...

The methodical study of the crystal growth processes and electrophoretic separation of the biomixtures have been carried out under microgravity con...

For the past several years, the priorities of NASA have been governed by the Vision for Space Exploration. The Vision was announced by President Bu...

In recent years, interest in space activities has grown more and more and there are future space exploration plans that include human missions to t...

This book presents current research in the field of space science. Topics discussed include research on the aerodynamics of large bolides; solar dy...

Remote Sensing is the method of measurement of the object properties on the Earth's surface using data acquired from aircraft and satellites. This ...

The successful launches of SpaceShipOne raised the possibility of an emerging U.S. commercial space tourism industry that would make human space tr...

Book & CD-ROM. pace weather refers to variations in the space environment between the sun and Earth (and throughout the solar system) that can ...

The anthology titled "Spacetime Energy: A Twenty First Century Perspective" encompasses novel and avant garde ideas that delineate the intrinsic na...

Specialty metals are essential to the manufacture and performance capabilities of certain Department of Defense (DOD) weapon system parts, due to t...

This book, by noted SS and helmet scholars Mike Beaver and Kelly Hicks, presents the combat and parade helmets worn by the SS from its earliest day...