Astrophysics
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A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: Johnson, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691258686
- Language: English
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Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
$18.99 Add to cart“The world’s leading alien hunter” — New York Times Magazine
From acclaimed Harvard astrophysicist and bestselling author of Extraterrestrial comes a mind-expanding new book explaining why becoming an
- Author: Loeb, Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0063250888
- Language: English
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Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos
$32.50 Add to cartA leading astronomer and gifted teacher takes readers on a wondrous tour of how science confronts the big questions–about the universe’s origins, destiny, and fundamental nature–and how it contends … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Kelsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604369
- Language: English
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Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration
$28.99 Add to cartIn the 1960s and ’70s, America spent $24 billion (around $150 billion in today’s dollars) to land humans on the moon and “win” the space race. And while humans took their first steps on an extraterres… [more below]
- Author: Mandel, Savannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1641609923
- Language: English
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The Sixth Element: How Carbon Shapes Our World
$27.95 Add to cartA cosmic perspective on carbon–its importance in the universe and our lives
When we think of carbon, we might first think of a simple element near the top of the periodic table: symbol C, atomic numb- Author: Snow, Theodore P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691125880
- Language: English
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How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense
$29.99 Add to cartThere are approximately 25,000 “city killer” asteroids in near-Earth orbit–and most are yet to be found. Small enough to evade detection, they are capable of large-scale destruction, and represent ou
- Author: Andrews, Robin George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324050195
- Language: English
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Galaxies
$17.95 Add to cartAn eminently readable overview of the history and physics of galaxies.
In Galaxies, Or Graur offers a brief and fascinating overview of the history, physics, and astrophysical uses of galaxies. Starti
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Graur, Or
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548755
- Language: English
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A Briefer History of Time: A Special Edition of the Science Classic
$27.00 Add to cartFROM ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS OF OUR TIME COMES A BOOK THAT CLARIFIES HIS MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS
Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time remains a landmark volume in scie- Author: Hawking, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0553804367
- Language: English
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Where Did the Universe Come From? and Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos
$17.99 Read moreGo on an awe-inspiring journey, unraveling the secrets of our universe from the tiniest particles to the vastness of space
In this thought-provoking exploration, physicists Chris Ferrie and Geraint F.
- Author: Ferrie, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1728238811
- Language: English
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The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation
$18.99 Read moreOne of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA’s history, George W. S. Abbey was said to be secretive, despotic, a Space Age Machiavelli. Yet Abbey had more influence on human spaceflight t… [more below]
- Author: Cassutt, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1641603186
- Language: English
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Wrinkles in Time: Witness to the Birth of the Universe
$18.99 Add to cartAstrophysicist George Smoot spent decades pursuing the origin of the cosmos, “the holy grail of science,” a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarct
- Author: Smoot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0061344443
- Language: English
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The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era–A Celebration of the Unfol
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the big bang to the present and into the next millenium, The Universe Story unites science and the humanities in a dramatic exploration of the unfolding of the universe, humanity’s evolving place… [more below]
- Author: Swimme, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 11 1994
- ISBN10: 0062508350
- Language: English
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Radio and Radar Astronomy Projects for Beginners
$37.99 Add to cart- Series: Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy
- Author: Arnold, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: October 23 2020
- ISBN10: 3030549054
- Language: English
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The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
$19.99 Add to cart“Fascinating . . . One of the most important stories in the history of science.”– Washington Post
In recent years, a handful of scientists has been racing to explain a disturbing aspect of our univer- Author: Panek, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0547577575
- Language: English
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Astronomical Sketching: A Step-By-Step Introduction
$49.99 Add to cartDespite the existence of a wide variety of drawing media and techniques, there is until now no comprehensive treatment of astronomical sketching. This book presents the amateur with fine examples of a
- Series: Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy
- Author: Handy, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: June 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0387262407
- Language: English
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What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein’s Ideas, and Why They Matter
$18.95 Add to cartIt is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as prominent author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett poi
- Author: Bennett, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 023116727X
- Language: English
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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe
$39.99 Add to cartWhat determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? What conditions are necessary for the emergence of intelligence? This groundbreaking book is the first to synthesi… [more below]
- Author: Ward, Peter D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: December 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0387952896
- Language: English
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The Theory of Relativity: And Other Essays
$10.99 Add to cartE=mc2 is the world’s most famous equation. Discover the thought process and physics behind general relativity and Einstein’s contribution to science, in this authorized edition.
In this collection of- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1453204733
- Language: English
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The Universe: The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox
$19.99 Add to cartEvery night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one
- Author: Cohen, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0008389357
- Language: English
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The Goldilocks Enigma
$16.95 Add to cartThe Goldilocks Enigma is Paul Davies’s eagerly awaited return to cosmology, the successor to his critically acclaimed bestseller The Mind of God. Here he tackles all the big questions, including the b… [more below]
- Author: Davies, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0547053584
- Language: English
