There is no competition since this is the first book in the English language on cosmonaut selection and training 
Offers a unique and original discussion on how Russia prepares its cosmonauts for spaceflight. Contains original interviews and photographs with first-hand information obtained by the authors on visits to Star City Provides an insight to the role of cosmonauts in the global space programme of the future. Reviews the training both of Russian cosmonauts in other countries and of foreign cosmonauts in Star City

Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center (Springer Praxis Books)

Hall, Rex D.

Reference

Praxis

This book gives an introduction to modern geometry. Starting from an elementary level, the author develops deep geometrical concepts that play an important role in contemporary theoretical physics, presenting various techniques and viewpoints along the way. This second edition contains two additional, more advanced geometric techniques: the modern language and modern view of Algebraic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry.

Russia's Cosmonauts (Lecture Notes in Physics)

Science & Math

Shayler, David J.

Vis, Bert

Mathematics

Springer

Rex Hall and Dave Shayler provide a unique history of the Soyuz spacecraft programme from conception, through development to its use, detailed in the only English language book available on this topic. Planned for publication in 2003, it will celebrate 40 years since the original concept of the Soyuz craft.

Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft (Springer Praxis Books)

History

Russia

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