The Facts on File space and astronomy handbook

Series: Facts on File science library

• Floods

• Man-made catastrophes

• Droughts

• The Facts on File marine science handbook

• Forensic anthropology: the growing science of talking bones

• The age of synthesis: 1800-1895

• The birth of science: ancient times to 1699

• Medicine

• Modern science, 1896-1945

• The rise of reason: 1700-1799

• Science frontiers: 1946 to the present

• Aging: theories and potential therapies

• Animal cloning: the science of nuclear transfer

• Cancer: the role of genes, lifestyle, and environment

• The cell: evolution of the first organism

• The Exxon Valdez oil spill

• Gene therapy: treating disease by repairing genes

• The Kuwaiti oil fires

• The San Francisco earthquake

• Stem cell research: medical applications and ethical controversy

• Atoms and materials

• Chemistry of drugs

• Chemistry of new materials

• Chemistry of space

• Chemistry of the environment

• Electricity and magnetism

• Force and motion

• Light and optics

• Particles and the universe

• Time and thermodynamics

• Blood, bugs, and plants

• Firearms and fingerprints

• Science versus crime

• Trace evidence

• Crashes and collapses

• Drugs, poisons, and chemistry

• The Facts on file geometry handbook

• The Facts on File space and astronomy handbook

• Fakes and forgeries

• The immune system: nature's way of fighting disease