Space humanities - Subject Guide
Recommended books
Gorman, A., 2019. Dr. Space Junk vs the universe: archaeology and the future. Cambridge: The MIT Press
Kaku, M., 2005. Parallel worlds : the science of alternative universes and our future in the cosmos. Penguin Books
Lovelock, J., 2006. The revenge of Gaia: earth's climate crisis and the fate of humanity. Basic Books
Sagan, C., 1994. Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space. Random House
Schwartz, J.S.J., 2020. The value of science in space exploration. New York: Oxford University Press
Ethics, philosophy, religion
Cockell, C.S., 2016. Dissent, revolution and liberty beyond earth. New York: Springer
Dick, S.J., 2018. Astrobiology and societal impact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Levinson, P., 2016. Touching the face of the cosmos : on the intersection of space travel and religion. New York: Connected Editions
Miligan, T., 2015. Nobody owns the moon: the ethics of space exploration. McFarland & Company
Pop, V., 2009. Who owns the Moon?: extraterrestrial aspects of land and mineral resources ownership. New York: Springer
Schneider, S., 2016. Science fiction and philosophy: from time travel to superintelligence. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell
Schwartz, S.J., 2016. The ethics of space exploration. New York: Springer
Speight, J.G., 2011. Ethics in science and engineering. Hoboken: John Wiley
Steer, C., 2021. War and peace in outer space: law, policy, and ethics. New York: Oxford University Press
Turner, J., 2019. Robot rules: regulating artificial intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan
Vakoch, D.A., 2014. Extraterrestrial altruism: evolution and ethics in the cosmos. New York: Springer
Sociology
Deerfield, K., 2019. Gender, sexuality and space culture. Rowman & Littlefield
Dick, S., 2015. Societal impact of spaceflight. NASA
Drigani, F., 2021. Communicating space exploration: challenges, state of art and future trends. Cham: Springer
Oberhaus, D., 2019. Extraterrestrial languages. Cambridge: The MIT Press
Parker, M., 2009. Space travel and culture. Wiley/Blackwell
Sims Bainbridge, W., 2015. The meaning and value of spaceflight. New York: Springer
Tribbe, M.D., 2014. No requiem for the space age: the Apollo moon landings and American culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Biographies
Cavallaro, U., 2017. Woman spacefarers: sixty different paths to orbit. New York: Springer
Chertok, B., 2005. Rockets and people. NASA History program
Koppel, L., 2013. Astronaut wives club: a true story. Headline
Shetterly, M.L., 2016. Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. New York: William Morrow
Shubin, D.H., 2016. Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky : the pioneering rocket scientist and his cosmic philosophy. New York: Algora Publishing
Weitekamp, M.A., 2004. Right stuff, wrong sex : America's first women in space program. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
History
Chaikin, A., 1994. A man on the Moon : the voyages of the Apollo astronauts. Penguin Books
Maher, N. M., 2017. Apollo in the age of Aquarius. Cambridge: Harvard University Press
MacDonald, A.C., 2017. The long space age : the economic origins of space exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War. Yale University Press
McDougall, W.A., 1985. The heavens and the earth: a political history of the space age. Basic Books
Phillips Mackowski, M., 2006. Testing the limits; aviation medicine and the origins of manned space flight. Texas University Press
Pyle, R., 2019. Interplanetary robots: true stories of space exploration. Prometheus Books
Pyne, S.J., 2010. Voyager: seeking newer worlds in the third great age of discovery. Viking
Siddiqi, Asif, A., 2010. The red rockets' glare: spaceflight and the Soviet imagination, 1857-1957. Texas A&M University Press
Stone, R. and Andres, A., 2019. Chasing the moon: the people, the politics, and the promise that launched America into the space age. Ballantine Books
Journal Articles
Journal articles can be an excellent source for researching narrower, more specialized topics. Articles published in scholarly and specialized journals include extensive
footnotes with citations to primary and secondary sources that are
relevant to the topic.
Journal indexes and databases are a good tool for conducting
journal article research. They include bibliographic information about
an article, such as the title, the name of the author, and the name of
the journal, as well as one or more subject descriptors.
Multidisciplinary databases
- Base: Bielefield academic search engine
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free - EBSCO Discovery Service
This database is an online research tool that "pulls together" many external space-related and multidisciplinary sources so that they can be explorer using a single search box. - Web of Science
Web of Science is a citation index that provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research, which allows for in-depth exploration of specialized sub-fields within an academic or scientific discipline. (On-campus access) - WorldCat
WorldCat connects you to the collections of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. You can search for books, reports, article citations, and resources from the internet.
Specialized databases
- IAC Meeting papers
IAF repository of publications - JSTOR
Citations to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in humanities and social sciences - PhilPapers
Index and bibliography in philosophy - Project Muse
Database of peer-reviewed academic journals and electronic books which contains digital humanities and social science content from over 250 university presses and scholarly societies around the world - SSRN
Database in social sciences and humanities, economics, finance, management and law
Selected Journals and Book Series
