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Planetary Defense
Planetary defense from near-Earth objects such as asteroids is a far more nuanced and challenging topic than it might seem. Each day, technology is making it easier to detect asteroid impact threats in advance, but at present, there is still no easy way to design and implement any form of global defense. This book examines how various asteroid deflection methods can change global political affairs. The authors believe that the final policy for potential Earth impacts should be based on practical engineering solutions and innovative architectural structures, while at the same time reflecting the most recent political science contributions in ethical security studies and security cosmopolitani...
Governance of Emerging Space Challenges
This edited volume discusses how even small nation states can make a significant difference in the future of space governance. The book is divided into three main sections covering political theory, case studies, and space technology and applications. Key topics of discussion include planetary defense, space mining, and high-power systems in space. Through these timely subjects, the book presents strategies for developing a truly global governance framework in space, based on the concept of a responsible cosmopolitan state. Authored by a multidisciplinary group of researchers from the Czech Republic, the volume will appeal to other scientific teams and policymakers looking to become pioneers of cosmopolitan space policies at a national and global level.
The Oxford Handbook of Space Security
The Oxford Handbook of Space Security focuses on the interaction between space technology and international and national security processes. Saadia M. Pekkanen and P.J. Blount have gathered a group of key scholars who bring a range of analytical and theoretical perspectives to take an analytically-eclectic approach to assessing space security from an international relations (IR) theory perspective. Bringing together scholarship from a group of leading experts, this volume explains how these contemporary changes will affect future security in, from, and through space.
Legal Aspects of Planetary Defence
Impacts by asteroids or comets on Earth may lead to natural disasters of catastrophic dimensions. This book addresses legal and policy aspects of ‘planetary defence’ activities by space agencies and other actors aiming at the prediction and mitigation of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs).
Finders Weepers
When the new principal of a once-illustrious school in the rural Eastern Cape disappears, journalist Nix Mniki goes in search of her. Boniswa, the missing woman, had arrived at Girdwood College five months earlier, determined to restore the school to its former glory and to empower children from the destitute community. Born of Xhosa and German parentage and raised in a privileged household, Nix is ignorant of the impact of the education crisis on people’s lives. But as she becomes embroiled in the mystery of Boniswa’s disappearance, she faces a sinister world of corruption, manipulation and violence, as well as revelations about her own family. Boniswa, she discovers, may not have disappeared voluntarily. Finders Weepers is a chilling, intelligent crime thriller.
Laser Propulsion in Space
Space launches have evoked the same vivid image for decades: bright orange flames exploding beneath a rocket as it lifts off and thunders into the sky. An alternative acceleration system could reshape that vision forever, with rockets leaving their energy source on the ground... or in space. Laser Propulsion in Space: Fundamentals, Technology, and Future Missions takes readers on a comprehensive journey from the theoretical overview of propulsion fundamentals, to reviews of current projects involving high-power CW fiber lasers and energetic mm-wave sources with their ongoing and potential end-use applications in beamed energy propulsion (BEP). Written by experts in the field, this mathematic...
Who Owns Outer Space?
Explores the environmental, safety, and security challenges facing humanity's rapid expansion into Space and proposes actionable solutions.
Basics Vorkurs Medizin
Mit dem "Vorkurs Medizin schnell fit fürs Medizinstudium! GUT: umfassende Wiederholung der Grundlagenfächer Mathematik, Chemie, Biochemie, Biologie und Physik, damit Sie gut vorbereitet dem Tempo der Vorlesungen folgen können. BESSER: das Buch knüpft an das Wissen aus der Oberstufe an und baut die naturwissenschaftlichen Grundlagen auf, die fürs Medizinstudium notwendig sind. So klappt der Start in die Vorklinik! BASICS: schneller Einstieg garantiert: pro Thema eine übersichtliche Doppelseite, viele Abbildungen und die beliebte Zusammenfassung - und passend dazu Übungsfragen zu jedem Fach. Das sind Ihre Vorteile: das Wesentliche zum Thema in leicht verständlicher Form schnell fit für den Einstieg ins Medizinstudium alle Grundlagenfächer in einem Buch
Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law
It is statistically unlikely that humans are the only intelligent species in the universe. Nothing about the others will be known until contact is made beyond a radio signal from space that merely tells us they existed when it was sent. That contact may occur tomorrow, in a hundred years, or never. If it does it will be a high-risk scenario for humanity. It may be peaceful or hostile. Relying on alien altruism and benign intentions is wishful thinking. We need to begin identifying as a planetary species, and develop a global consensus on how to respond in either scenario.
