To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Reference  Physical Sciences  Cosmology & Astronomy

The Little Book of Stars

Popular Science
By: James B Kaler
184 pages, 30 illus
Publisher: Springer Nature
The Little Book of Stars
Click to have a closer look
  • The Little Book of Stars ISBN: 9780387950051 Hardback Nov 2000 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
    £24.99
    #106858
Price: £24.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Related titles

About this book

Covers the history of stars in our culture from Greek mythology to horoscopes, and how we use them for everything from navigation to personality profiles.

Contents

Stars: Beginnings. Defining a star. Chemical composition. Age. Gravitational compression. Nuclear reactions.- Collections: Distances and luminosities. Doubles, multiples, and masses. Clusters. Our Galaxy. Other galaxies. The universe of galaxies.- Kinds: The Sun. Spectra and classes. The HR diagram. Dwarfs and giants. Supergiants. White dwarfs.- Parade: The night sky. Constellations. Naming the stars. Your fortune please. Timekeepers. The navigator.- Bazaar: Variable stars. Pitch and catch. Strange. chemistries. Planetary nebulae. Supernovae. Neutron stars.- Linkages: Main sequence evolution. Growth. Transformation. Cataclysm. Darkness.- Dawn: Nebulae. Building blocks. Collapse. Birth. Disks and planets. Looking outward.

Customer Reviews

Popular Science
By: James B Kaler
184 pages, 30 illus
Publisher: Springer Nature
Media reviews
From the reviews:

"a ]Everything a popular science book should bea ]it is a delight to read and is packed with accurate yet easy-to-digest scientific information." Physics World

Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides