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Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson Publisher Comments Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rare breed of astrophysicist, one who can speak as easily and brilliantly with popular audiences as with professional scientists. Now that NASA has put human space flight effectively on hold — with a five- or possibly ten... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.87 Sale - Hardcover 
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach Publisher Comments Space 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. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Glorious Eclipses: Their Past Present and Future by Serge Brunier Publisher Comments Stargazers who may have missed the last total solar eclipse of the 20th century this past summer have just been given another chance to observe this "once in a lifetime" occurrence. Inside Glorious Eclipses they will find startling images and rich... (read more) List Price $115.50 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Earth: A Journey Through Time by Nicolas Cheetham Publisher Comments Planet Earth is presented in a captivating and original perspective in this extraordinary collection of breathtaking images. Through the use of satellites and various lenses and imagery techniques, previously hidden aspects of the planet are brought into... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $7.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Intimate Look at the Night Sky by Chet Raymo Publisher Comments On one level, An Intimate Look at the Night Sky is a unique star guide: twenty-four beautiful star maps, created specifically for this book, cycle through the seasons and across the heavens, revealing what you can see with the naked eye throughout the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Space: Missions, Applications and Exploration by Fernand Verger Publisher Comments Since the lift-off of Sputnik in 1957, over 8,000 satellites and spacecraft have been launched from over thirty countries, costing hundreds of billions of dollars. While only about 350 people have made the incredible journey beyond our atmosphere, we all... (read more) List Price $99.25 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence by Paul Davies Publisher Comments Fifty years ago, Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). But... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth by Marc Kaufman Publisher Comments Are we alone in the universe? Almost certainly not. In First Contact, Marc Kaufman provides a gripping tour of the magnificent new science of astrobiology that is closing in on the discovery of extraterrestrial life. In recent decades, scientists... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Monthly Sky Guide by Ian Ridpath Publisher Comments The fifth edition of Ridpath and Tirion's famous guide to the night sky, updated to 2004.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Destination Space: Making Science Fiction a Reality by Kenny Kemp Publisher Comments The human impulse is to explore, and now there is an unexplored territory open for the traveler. The arrival of a revolutionary, safe, and environmentally friendly flying machine called SpaceShipTwo makes suborbital space travel a reality. For the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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David Levy's Guide to Observing Meteor Showers by David Levy Publisher Comments Meteors occur when a meteoroid, a speck of dust in space, enters the Earth's atmosphere. The heat generated when this happens causes the surrounding air to glow, resulting in 'shooting stars'. During the most spectacular meteor storms larger particles... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments From "Americas nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak Publisher Comments On January 1, 1925, thirty-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced the observation that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. This discovery... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil Degrasse Tyson Publisher Comments When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page one, "Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New York." Immediately, the public, professionals, and press... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Stargazers Guide by Emily Winterburn Publisher Comments Have you ever found yourself looking up at the starry night, wondering and wanting to know more? Congratulations You're a stargazer. Unlike its more scientific sister astronomy, stargazing requires no equipment--except perhaps something comfortable to... (read more) Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin Publisher Comments Since the beginning of human history, Mars has been an alluring dream—the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit. But all that changed when... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Red Moon Rising Uk by Matthew Brzezinski Publisher Comments In his exuberant narrative of the superpower space race . . . Brzezinski] tells the story of American and Soviet decisions with remarkable dramatic--even cinematic--flair.--The New York Times Book Review In Red Moon Rising, Matthew Brzezinski recounts... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang by Adam Frank Publisher Comments The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universes “beginning” is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again—as altered as... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Birth & Death of the Sun: Stellar Evolution and Subatomic Energy by George Gamow Publisher Comments In this fascinating book, a renowned physicist outlines the discoveries and theories that illuminate the evolution of our world. One of the founders of Big Bang theory, George Gamow employs language that's both scientifically accurate and easy to... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz Publisher Comments Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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