Trefil, James S.

Provides a tour of the universe starting with the solar system and extending to the stars and the universe, with color illustrations, star maps, and more.

Argues that humans are on the brink of being able to manage nature, discusses issues such as climate stability, extinctions, and global warming, and looks at emerging fields of science, including geonomic, complexity theory, and experimental ecology, and how they might affect the relationship between humans and nature.

Discusses technological and human aspects of the colonization of space as it may be experienced by future generations.

Thrilling tour across the borders of current scientific knowledge, from astonomy to genetics, from information technology to cosmology.

Presents short essays on 101 unanswered questions of science, identifying the top ten issues, and investigating the areas of astronomy and cosmology, Earth and planetary sciences, biology, medicine, evolution, and technology.

Examines twelve questions exploring the way modern physicists view the world.

Presents color photographs of the cosmos gathered from numerous observatories and space missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope; and features text that provides information about the sun, planets, and moons of Earth's solar system, as well as phenomena beyond the Milky Way.

Contains approximately one thousand alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about topics in science, technology, and medicine, and includes cross-references, photographs, charts, diagrams, drawings, and sidebars and reports.