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Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts war die Existenz von Galaxien nicht erwiesen. Erst seit den 1950er-Jahren konnten Wissenschaftler dank optischer Teleskope die ersten fundierten Erkenntnisse über deren Materie gewinnen. Auch heute sind noch viele Fragen offen, doch zeichnet sich durch Hochleistungsteleskope ein immer deutlicheres Bild unseres Kosmos ab. David J. Eicher gibt dem Leser einen faszinierenden Einblick in die Geschichte der Stern- und...

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Amazing 3-D images take readers inside the birth and death of stars.

Tour the most dazzling, fascinating, and unusual galaxies in the universe with the editor in chief of Astronomy as your personal guide, featuring jaw-dropping illustrations and full-color photography from the magazine's archives, much of it never before published.Have you ever wanted to explore the Milky Way? Are you curious about how black holes form (and what really happens if you get stuck in one)? Galaxies: Inside the Universe's Star Citie...

This book offers both a succinct biography and the definitive collection of nearly 350 photographs, important paintings, original ingravings, artifacts, and significant documents pertaining to the Confederate general.

The story of the lunar landing and the events that led up to it, told in text and visually stunning 3-D images.

Over the past decade, astronomers, planetary scientists, and cosmologists have answered - or are closing in on the answers to - some of the biggest questions about the universe. David J. Eicher presents a spectacular exploration of the cosmos that provides you with a balanced and precise view of the latest discoveries. Detailed and entertaining narratives on compelling topics such as how the Sun will die, the end of life on Earth, why Venus tu...

In this compelling new account of the American Civil War, noted historian David Eicher gives us an authoritative history of battle from the first shots at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. As a strictly military history, "The Longest Night" covers hundreds of engagements, both well known and obscure, including the oft-neglected Western theater and naval actions along the coasts and rivers. The result is a gripping popular history t...

Blasting away at old theories, a brilliant, young Civil War historian offers a radical new way of understanding the South's defeat: the Confederacy was killed by self-inflicted wounds. of photos & maps.

JANUARY 2014 STOP PRESS A practical guide to the history and science of comets from a well-known amateur astronomer, including tips and techniques on how to observe and image them. It is published on the eve of comet ISON, which may be the biggest and most spectacular comet in Earth's skies for many decades.

Updated edition of a touring guide that provides twelve separate tour routes embracing 22 Civil War campaigns and 40 separate battles. Forty-one maps show 1, 353 specific features of the battlefields, which comprise National Park areas as well as private lands.

Based on nearly five decades of research, this magisterial work is a biographical register and analysis of the 3, 396 people who most directly influenced the course of the Civil War, its high commanders: presidents and cabinet members, state governors, general officers of the Union and Confederate armies, and admirals and commodores of the two navies.

Here, for the first time, is a book that goes beyond providing just a brief battle history for each of the Civil War parks. Civil War Battlefields presents a detailed, clear narrative describing exactly what visitors can see and do in twelve important battlefield areas covering 22 campaigns and approxiamately 40 separate battles.

This book offers both a succinct biography and the definitive collection of nearly 350 photographs, important paintings, original ingravings, artifacts, and significant documents pertaining to the Confederate general.

In this pictorial work, David J. Eicher not only visits the most famous Civil War battlefields - Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and Antietam among them - but also introduces readers to an array of lesser-known battle sites as well as monuments, forts, houses and farms, cemeteries, and museums. The color photographs, chosen from Eicher's vast personal collection, are supplemented by powerful, historical black-and-white photographs that pro...