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A Briefer History of Time: The Science Classic Made More Accessible
$22.00 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS
The science classic made more accessible
– More concise – Illustrated FROM ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS OF OUR TIME COMES A BOOK THAT CLARIFIES HIS MOST IMPORTA- Author: Hawking, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0553385461
- Language: English
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Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAstrobiology is an exciting new subject, and one, arguably, more interdisciplinary than any other. Astrobiologists seek to understand the origin and evolution of life on Earth in order to illuminate a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Catling, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199586454
- Language: English
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We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
$19.99 Add to cartThe heroic story of the Mercury Seven, the pioneer astronauts who risked their lives for America’s first manned space voyages.Project Mercury ran from 1959 through 1963, put the first American in spac
- Author: Carpenter, Scott M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 12, 2010
- ISBN10: 1439181039
- Language: English
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Exploring the Night Sky: The Equinox Astronomy Guide for Beginners
$9.95 Read more200,000 sold to date
Exploring the Night Sky is aimed at novice star gazers anxious to expand their astronomical repertoire beyond the Big and Little Dippers. Dickinson has designed a superb introdu
- Author: Dickinson, Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: February 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0920656668
- Language: English
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Fundamentals of Astrodynamics: Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cartDeveloped at the U.S. Air Force Academy, this teaching text is widely known and used throughout the astrodynamics and aerospace engineering communities. Completely revised and updated, this second edi… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Bate, Roger R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0486497046
- Language: English
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
$28.00 Add to cartFrom a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos–and a call for a more liberatory practice of science.
Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize i- Author: Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1541724704
- Language: English
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
$17.95 Add to cartMixing memoir and visionary science, a leading astrophysicist’s groundbreaking personal account of her life and ideas
Is the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna- Author: Levin, Janna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 069123227X
- Language: English
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Solar System: A Visual Exploration of All the Planets, Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies That Orbit Our Sun–Updated Edition
$30.00 Add to cartAn astonishing journey through space and time. Experience all the wonders of our interplanetary neighborhood through fascinating text, original graphics, and stunning photographs.
Never before have th- Series: Solar System
- Author: Chown, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0762480734
- Language: English
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The Planets: The Definitive Visual Guide to Our Solar System
$30.00 Add to cartDiscover places where a day is longer than a year, where hailstones are made of diamonds, and where a mountain looms twice the size of Everest.
The S
These and more are all to be found in The Planets.- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1465424644
- Language: English
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Supernova
$16.95 Add to cartA concise illustrated introduction to the history and physics of supernovae, the brilliant explosions of stars; with striking color illustrations.
Supernovae are the explosions of stars. They are som
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Graur, Or
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543141
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Black Holes
$21.95 Add to cartDive into a mind-bending exploration of the physics of black holes
Black holes, predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and- Series: Science Essentials #29
- Author: Gubser, Steven S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0691163723
- Language: English
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The Physics of Star Trek
$18.99 Add to cartHow does the Star Trek universe stack up against the real universe?
What warps when you’re traveling at warp speed? What is the difference between a wormhole and a black hole? Are time loops really p- Author: Krauss, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0465002048
- Language: English
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
$28.00 Add to cartSpace is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human… [more below]
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0393068471
- Language: English
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Before the Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond
$0.00 Read more“A riveting tour of the cosmos from one of the brightest minds in astrophysics.” —The Washington Post
A revolutionary new account of our universe’s creation–and a breathtaking exploration of the land
- Author: Mersini-Houghton, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 19, 2022
- ISBN10: 1328557111
- Language: English
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Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world — twenty-nine men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. A… [more below]
- Author: Mullane, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0743276833
- Language: English
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Galaxies: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn this fascinating Very Short Introduction, popular science writer John Gribben tells the story of our growing understanding of galaxies, from the days before Galileo to our present-day observations … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gribbin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0199234345
- Language: English
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Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
$17.95 Read moreFrom the host and cocreator of PBS’s Journey of the Universe, a fresh look at how the rich collision between science and spirituality has influenced contemporary consciousness
The understanding that t- Author: Swimme, Brian Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1640096175
- Language: English
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The Invisible Universe: Why There’s More to Reality Than Meets the Eye
$18.95 Add to cartA guide to the 99% of the Universe our eyes can’t see from a dazzling new voice in popular science
From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic ‘prehistory’, Bothwell s- Author: Bothwell, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0861544382
- Language: English
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Bang!! 2: The Complete History of the Universe
$24.95 Add to cartIn 2004 a rock star, a TV astronomer and a young research astronomer sat down to write the story of the Universe in the order in which it happened, from its birth at the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ag
- Author: May, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1787398277
- Language: English
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The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia: The Most Compreshensive Single-Volume UFO Reference in Print
$24.95 Add to cartThis is the most up-to-date, comprehensive guide to the study of UFOs and extraterrestrial contact in print today. With more than 5,000 entries, revealing photographs, diagrams, and commentary of expe… [more below]
- Author: Birnes, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0743466748
- Language: English
