The Atlas opens out to reveal 26 charts, each one 20 inches wide and 15 inches deep. This large format allows the stars, nebulas and galaxies to be displayed with unrivalled clarity. Tirion's Sky Atlas is not only practical; its exquisite maps of the night sky combine are beautiful examples of the cartographer's skills.Copublished with Sky Publishing Corporation

    In this third edition every article has been rewritten to incorporate recent discoveries and developments.

    The hundreds of drawings and photographs reproduced in this hardback volume offer almost endless variations on the many structural systems that can keep buildings together: within a few pages of one another, tents, domes and cubes are shown supported by poles, cables, ribs, rafters and beams. Heino Engel's presentation and explanation of this highly complex material differs fundamentally from others' work on the subject in that he focuses entirely upon the functions and design effects of these mechanisms, without regard for technical details: More than an engineering text, this is a catalogue of ideas and forms for architects and dreamers, a David Macaulay book for adults. Structure Systems skips over more commonly treated special designs and completed buildings for typical, representative and surprising shapes. As a reference work or daydream material, it is an indispensable repertoire of forms.

    AcknowledgmentsForewordAt home in orbitThe birth of SputnikThe Nedelin catastropheMan & woman in space The Voskhod folliesDeath & disaster The mooon-race cover-up The long climb back Secret space cities The Salyut-6 breakthroughThrough the Zero-G barrierThings to comeAppendicesBiographiesGuest CosmonautsSoviet Man-Related Space ShotsAnnotated BibliographySources of Current InformationOpen QuestionsIndex

    Absorbing, readable, brilliantly imaginative but always grounded in fact, 2081 is a wonderful look at the world of tomorrow, a new 1984, but one that looks forward to a bright future.

    

    Book designed to help parents to amuse, interest and at the same time teach how to tell time by showing the child how to relate the time on a clock face to his everyday life.

    This is an autobiographical account of the science of rocketry beginning at Peenemunde, the famous German Rocket Development Center on the Baltic Sea where the V-2 rocket was developed, to Canaveral and the launching of the Redstone missile in 1953.