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The Sun's Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet by Bob Berman Publisher Comments Provides interesting facts about the star at the center of our solar system and describes the life of the sun, from its birth and life as a self-sustaining ultra-H-Bomb fusion explosion, to its spectacular and anticipated future death. 30,000 first... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Practical Statistics for Astronomers by J. V. Wall Publisher Comments Astronomy, like any experimental subject, needs statistical methods to interpret data reliably. This practical handbook presents the most relevant statistical and probabilistic machinery for use in observational astronomy. Classical parametric and non... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $38.50 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Cosmic Magnetic Fields by R. Wielebinski Publisher Comments While magnetic fields permeate the universe on all scales,the present book is dedicated to their investigation on the largest scales and affordsa balanced account of both theoretical and observational aspects. Written as a set of advanced lectures and... (read more) List Price $109.00 Your price: $104.91 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them by Richard W. Schmude Publisher Comments This book tells the story of two giants and a dwarf. The giants, Uranus and Neptune, are mostly huge balls of gas, and they make their home in the remotest reaches of the Solar System. The dwarf, Pluto, which can usually be found even farther out than... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $33.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Four Faces of the Universe: An Integrated View of the Cosmos by Robert Kleinman Publisher Comments Four Faces of the Universe is an adventurous survey of a universe that is deeper than science can measure. It explores key perspectives by which we can gain insight into the cosmos - mythical, scientific, traditional and evolutionary - affirming what is... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $15.93 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Magnetodynamic Phenomena in the Solar Atmosphere: Prototypes of Stellar Magnetic Activity: Proceedings of the 153rd Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Makuhari, near Tokyo, Ma by International Astronomical Union. Colloquium Publisher Comments This volume presents the papers from a major international conference aimed at cross-linking research in the fields of solar and stellar activity. The Yohkoh satellite with its spectacular views of solar coronal structures seen via their X-ray emission... (read more) List Price $329.00 Your price: $316.66 Google eBooks - Electronic
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When the Universe Took a U-turn by Burra Gautam Sidharth Publisher Comments This book addresses some of the baffling questions encountered at the final frontier of space and time related to particle physics and cosmology in the context of recent iconoclastic observations and developments. When particle physics stagnated in the... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $78.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction by Kevin W. Plaxco Publisher Comments Informed by new planetary discoveries and the findings from recent robotic missions to Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, scientists are rapidly replacing centuries of speculation about potential extraterrestrial habitats with real knowledge about the... (read more) Your price: $30.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Finding the Big Bang by P. James E. Peebles Publisher Comments Cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, has become a precise physical science, the foundation of which is our understanding of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) left from the big bang. The story of the discovery and exploration of... (read more) List Price $67.00 Your price: $64.49 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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21st Century Astronomy Part 2 by Hester Publisher Comments This extraordinarily readable, cohesive text presents twenty-first century astronomy as a dynamic story of theory building and theory testing, as a fascinating process of observation and discovery. The authors' primary goal is to build students... (read more) Your price: $9.38 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Manned Spaceflight by Britannica Educational Publishing Publisher Comments Our Search for knowledge about the universe has been remarkable, heartbreaking, fantastical, and inspiring, and this search is just beginning. Manned Spaceflight is part of a 7 book series that takes readers through a virtual time warp of our discovery... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $35.50 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics by Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics Publisher Comments "Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically over the course of the last few decades. The fields of astronomy and astrophysics are making new connections to physics,... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $27.51 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Measuring the Universe: The Cosmological Distance Ladder by Stephen Webb Publisher Comments Distance determination - finding out how far away different astronomical objects are - is an essential and currently highly topical subject in astronomy. A great deal of progress has been made during the last part of the 20th century. Measuring the... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price: $95.29 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Comets, and How to Observe Them by Richard Schmude Publisher Comments Astronomers' Observing Guides provide up-to-date information for anateur astronomers who want to know all about what it is they are observing. This is the basis of the first part of the book. The second part details observing techniques for practical... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $33.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Origins of the Universe for Dummies by Stephen Pincock Publisher Comments Everything you need for a quick tour of everything You are here. How come? Want to discover the physical origin of the universe, but don't have the rest of eternity to read up on it? Want to know what scientists have found out about where you and your... (read more) Your price: $22.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Sketching the Moon: An Astronomical Artist's Guide by Richard Handy Publisher Comments For anyone artistically inclined, observing the Moon and attempting to sketch or paint it can easily become a passion. The Moon presents a broad array of tone, texture, and form. Capturing this in a painting or sketch at the eyepiece of a telescope... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $38.45 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Space Commercialization: Platforms and Processing by F. Shahrokhi Publisher Comments space commercialization activities are mainly in the areas of telecommunication and Earth observation. The commercial use of space for microgravity processing remains elusive. The reasons for this are the knowledge base for microgravity processing is... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price: $88.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Stars of Heaven by Clifford A. Pickover Publisher Comments Describes the evolution and behavior of stars, including the Sun, pulsars, neutron stars, and black holes.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $17.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas by Axel Mellinger Publisher Comments Using the latest methods in digital photography and image processing, The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas presents the whole sky through large-scale photographic images with corresponding charts. Each double-page spread shows a section of the night sky... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price: $36.58 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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21st Century Astronomy, Part 1 by Jeff Hester Publisher Comments This extraordinarily readable, cohesive text presents twenty-first century astronomy as a dynamic story of theory building and theory testing, as a fascinating process of observation and discovery. The authors' primary goal is to build students... (read more) Your price: $9.38 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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