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Robert Zubrin
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Humans are not native to the Earth. So posits astronautical engineer Bob Zubrin in the opening of Entering Space. We're native to just a small sliver of it, the spot where our species originated in tropical Kenya. We set out from that paradise abo
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Hans P. Moravec
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This is science fiction without the fiction--and more mind-bending than anything you ever saw on Star Trek. Moravec, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, envisions a not-too-distant future in which robots of superhuman intelligen
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Glenn McGee
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A dramatic new introduction to the perplexing ethical challenges of modern biomedicine through the lens of classical American pragmatism. "Pragmatic Bioethics is one of the most important books to appear in bioethics and applied philosophy this decade
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Alvin Toffler
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Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society. more]
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Freeman J. Dyson
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One fashionable school of thought holds that scientific revolutions are spurred primarily by shifts in the basic concepts that science understands the world with, and that those shifts are largely the outcome of struggles in the social and political real
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Daniel Quinn
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Futurist Daniel Quinn (Ishmael) dares to imagine a new approach to saving the world that involves deconstructing civilization. Quinn asks the radical yet fundamental questions about humanity such as, Why
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Esther Dyson
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This is noted digerati Esther Dyson's "upgrade" to Release 2.0, her guide to life in a wired world. Geared to the Net newbie, Dyson discusses the changes that the Internet has imposed on many areas of ou
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William E. Burrows
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More comprehensive than The Right Stuff, more critical than Apollo 13, This New Ocean is a near-perfect history of the men (and occasional women)
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James S. Trefil
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Outstanding imagery, stunningly presented. Perceptive text from award-winning science writer James Trefil. A foreword by David H. Levy, discoverer of 21 comets. Put them all together and you get Other Worlds: Images of the Cosmos from Earth and Sp
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Carolyn Collins Petersen
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The first edition of Hubble Vision was published in 1995, when the Hubble Space Telescope was already "the foremost observatory of our age." This second edition has been almost completely rewritten to em
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William E. Burrows
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More comprehensive than The Right Stuff, more critical than Apollo 13, This New Ocean is a near-perfect history of the men (and occasional women)
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Kitty Ferguson
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If you want to measure how big a stick is, you can use a ruler. Want to know how tall a windmill is? Don't waste time climbing to the top with a long measuring tape. Instead, use the old shadow trick--measure the length of a yardstick's shadow, then meas
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Arno Karlen, Arno Karlan
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Whereas many popular books on microbes focus on contemporary pathogens and emerging epidemics, Arno Karlen's Man and Microbes provides a historical look at the coevolution of humans and microorganisms. Karlen speculates that infections are integra
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Carl Sagan
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Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries.
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Arnulf Grubler, Artur Grubler
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It's a fascinating look at the future of medicine, cyberspace, transportation, manufacturing, energy, and the environment--what lies in wait for the decades ahead. more]
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Economics of Strikes and Revolts During Early Space Colonization: A Preliminary Analysis. Paper Pres at 4th Princeton/Aiaa Conf on Space Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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The Quest for Water Planets: Interstellar Space Colonization in the 21st Century Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Straight lines in curved space: colonization roads in eastern Ontario Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Colonization Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Kids and Technology: Space Colonization Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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From Imagination to Reality, Base Building, Colonization and Terraformation: Mars Exploration Studies of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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From Imagination to Reality: Mars Exploration Studies of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society: Base Building, Colonization and Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Space Colonization: Technology and the Liberal Arts Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Space Colonization
A three-star system, with a near twin to our own sun, Alpha Centauri A. This is the nearest star system to our own at 4.3 light years distance, the likely first candidate for colonization outside our solar system.