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Observing Guide to the Messier Marathon, The: A Handbook and Atlas

Observing Guide to the Messier Marathon, The: A Handbook...

Author: Don Machholz
ISBN: 9781280419041
Format: Undefined
$330.00

The Messier Catalogue is a list of one hundred and ten galaxies, star clusters and nebulae, and includes many of...  Read More >>

Restless Universe, The: Understanding X-Ray Astronomy in the Age of Chandra and Newton

Restless Universe, The: Understanding X-Ray Astronomy...

Author: Research Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Eric M Schlegel (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
ISBN: 9781280560149
Format: Electronic book text
$74.24

Carl Sagan once noted that there is only one generation that gets to see things for the first time. We are in the...  Read More >>

How to Use a Computerized Telescope. Practical Amateur Astronomy.

How to Use a Computerized Telescope. Practical Amateur...

Author: Michael A Covington (University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9781281112767
Format: Undefined
$330.00

How to Use a Computerized Telescope is the first handbook that describes how to get your computerized telescope...  Read More >>

Practical Amateur Astronomy: Celestial Objects for Modern Telescopes

Practical Amateur Astronomy: Celestial Objects for Modern...

Author: Michael A Covington
ISBN: 9786610749041
Format: Electronic book text
$343.20

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The Biggest Bangs: The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts, the Most Violent Explosions in the Universe

The Biggest Bangs: The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts,...

Author: Jonathan Katz
ISBN: 9786610531929
Format: Electronic book text
$76.24

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The Great Atlas of the Stars

The Great Atlas of the Stars

Author: Serge Brunier
ISBN: 9781552096437
Format: Spiral bound
$158.27

"The ""Great Atlas of the Stars"" is a guide to the night sky that enables all generations of stargazers to look...  Read More >>

Cosmic Time Travel: A Scientific Odyssey

Cosmic Time Travel: A Scientific Odyssey

Author: Barry Parker
ISBN: 9780738206325
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A fascinating examination of the possibility of time travel and the scientific breakthrough that may make it happen....  Read More >>

Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System

Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the...

Author: Bruce Dorminey
ISBN: 9780387950747
Format: Hardback
$86.99

Recent discoveries of planet-like objects circling other sun-like stars have stirred enormous interest in what other...  Read More >>

Kosmos

Kosmos

Author: Adam Bartos
ISBN: 9781568983080
Format: Hardback
$105.60

The Space Race was an exhilirating moment in history, alternately frighten-ing, thrilling, awe-inspiring, and ultimately,...  Read More >>

The Earth in Context: A Guide to the Solar System

The Earth in Context: A Guide to the Solar System

Author: David M. Harland
ISBN: 9781852333751
Format: Paperback
$90.54

The Earth in Context: A Guide to the Solar System tells a tale of scientific discovery, with two interwoven strands...  Read More >>

Of the Plurality of Worlds: A facsimile of the first edition of 1853; plus previously unpublished material excised by the author just before the book went to press; and Whewell's dialogue rebutting his critics, reprinted from th

Of the Plurality of Worlds: A facsimile of the first...

Author: William Whewell ,  Michael Ruse
ISBN: 9780226894362
Format: Paperback
$65.95

When first published in 1853, William Whewell's book caused a bitter debate in Victorian England on science and...  Read More >>

Of the Plurality of Worlds: A facsimile of the first edition of 1853; plus previously unpublished material excised by the author just before the book went to press; and Whewell's dialogue rebutting his critics, reprinted from th

Of the Plurality of Worlds: A facsimile of the first...

Author: William Whewell ,  Michael Ruse
ISBN: 9780226894355
Format: Hardback
$163.95

When first published in 1853, William Whewell's book caused a bitter debate in Victorian England on science and...  Read More >>

Gemini - Steps to the Moon

Gemini - Steps to the Moon

Author: Shayler David
ISBN: 9781852334055
Format: Paperback
$77.60

In Gemini - Steps to the Moon, author David Shayler unfolds the story of the origin and development of the programme...  Read More >>

Skywatchers: A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico

Skywatchers: A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers...

Author: Anthony Aveni
ISBN: 9780292705029
Format: Paperback
$63.95

An introduction to archaeoastronomy, focusing on Mesoamerica.  Read More >>

Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars

Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with...

Author: Helen Burgess ,  Robert Markley
ISBN: 9780812236200
Format: DVD-ROM
$131.87

"""This interactive voyage to outer space, guided by leading authorities in the field, constitutes an entire multimedia...  Read More >>

Project Mercury: NASA's First Manned Space Programme

Project Mercury: NASA's First Manned Space Programme...

Author: John Catchpole
ISBN: 9781852334062
Format: Hardback
$129.35

Project Mercury will offer a developmental resume of the first American manned spaceflight programme and its associated...  Read More >>

Solar Observing Techniques

Solar Observing Techniques

Author: C. R. Kitchin
ISBN: 9781852330354
Format: Paperback
$90.54

The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the numerous safe methods of observing the Sun and solar...  Read More >>

Mission Jupiter: The Spectacular Journey of the Galileo Spacecraft

Mission Jupiter: The Spectacular Journey of the Galileo...

Author: Daniel Fischer
ISBN: 9780387987644
Format: Hardback
$84.48

The story of the Galileo mission to investigate Jupiter. The astronomer Daniel Fischer takes us behind the scenes...  Read More >>

Heavenly Errors: Misconceptions About the Real Nature of the Universe

Heavenly Errors: Misconceptions About the Real Nature...

Author: Neil Comins
ISBN: 9780231116442
Format: Hardback
$173.95

Provides access to various paradoxes of the natural world. This book explains that some occur through the prevalence...  Read More >>

Episodes From the Early History of Astronomy

Episodes From the Early History of Astronomy

Author: Asger Aaboe
ISBN: 9780387951362
Format: Paperback
$287.76

It then turns to the astronomy of the Babylonians, who named many of our constellations, who are responsible for...  Read More >>

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey

Author: Michael Collins ,  Charles Lindbergh
ISBN: 9780815410287
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 astronaut tells first hand of his journeys into space and his arrival on the moon.  Read More >>

The Spark of Life

The Spark of Life

Author: Christopher Wills ,  Jeffrey Bada
ISBN: 9780198662761
Format: Paperback
$24.95

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Skylab: America's Space Station

Skylab: America's Space Station

Author: Shayler David
ISBN: 9781852334079
Format: Paperback
$85.36

Skylab is not just a story of space hardware and space science, but also of space explorers and pioneers.  Read More >>

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