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Transit of Venus: 1631 to the Present by Nick Lomb Publisher Comments A visually spectacular guide to the history, science and significance of Venus’s rare transits across the sun—the perfect companion to the transit on June 5, 2012 (the last one until 2117!)A transit of Venus is one of the rarest and most... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World (Terry Lectures) by Nancy Ellen Abrams Review Winner of the 2012 Nautilus Gold Award for the science/cosmology category. The Nautilus Awards recognizes Books and Audio Books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living & positive social change, while at the same time they stimulate the... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Fighting Light Pollution: Smart Lighting Solutions for Individuals and Communities by International Dark-sky Association (cor) Publisher Comments The first practical guide to alleviating an increasingly prevalent environmental concern How smart lighting can save energy costs and improve safety around the home, along the streets, and in public places--all while helping to preserve the night sky... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Destination Mars: New Explorations of the Red Planet by Rod Pyle PW Review "As Pyle (Destination Moon) points out, Mars is a 'planet of dreams,' provoking fantasies about aliens and busy canals. Advances in technology over the past 50 years, however, have given us a more accurate if equally vivid insight into the red planet... (read more) Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper
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Cambridge Astrophysics #49: Astrophysical Jets and Beams by Michael D. Smith Publisher Comments Astrophysical jets are spectacular displays of gas or dust ejected from a range of cosmic bodies; they are seemingly ubiquitous on scales from comets to black holes. This volume reviews our understanding of jet processes and provides a modern guide to... (read more) Your price: $105.00 New - Hardcover
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Relativistic Cosmology by George F. R. Ellis Publisher Comments Cosmology has been transformed by dramatic progress in high-precision observations and theoretical modelling. This book surveys key developments and open issues for graduate students and researchers. Using a relativistic geometric approach, it focuses on... (read more) Your price: $130.00 New - Hardcover
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Lives of the Planets: A Natural History of the Solar System by Richard Corfield Publisher Comments Lives of the Planets is a sweeping tour of our solar system, from the sun and demoted Pluto, to the Kuiper Belt and beyond the edge of the interstellar void. From the Neolithic computer that is Stonehenge to Galileos telescope to Keplers latest search... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now? by Kari Weil Publisher Comments Kari Weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Examining real and imagined confrontations between human and nonhuman animals, she charts the presumed lines of... (read more) Your price: $33.95 New - Trade Paper
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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose Publisher Comments This groundbreaking book presents a new perspective on three of cosmology’s essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awaits us? Penrose shows how the expected... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Springer Praxis Books / Popular Astronomy #1: The Star Atlas Companion: What You Need to Know about the Constellations by Philip M. Bagnall Publisher Comments The Star Atlas Companion is the ideal companion to any star atlas, as it is the first book to provide a true perspective on the characteristics and distances of over 1,100 stars and their movement through space. With the aid of scale diagrams, the reader... (read more) Your price: $45.50 New - Trade Paper
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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf Publisher Comments The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor--the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus and measure the solar system. On June 6, 1761,... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information by Vlatko Vedral Publisher Comments In Decoding Reality, Vlatko Vedral offers a mind-stretching look at the deepest questions about the universe--where everything comes from, why things are as they are, what everything is. The most fundamental definition of reality is not matter or energy,... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Everything You Need to Know about the Universe: From the Big Bang to the Big Crunch, in a Nutshell (Everything You Need to Know About...) by Chris Cooper Synopsis The Earth is a fascinating place of unbelievable wonder — and its the only home weve ever known. But our planet is just a small part of our universe, which is home to many other planets and moons and billions of stars. Theres much to learn about our... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Black Holes in Higher Dimensions by Gary T. Horowitz List Price $79.00 Your price: $76.04 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Handbook of Isotopes in the Cosmos: Hydrogen to Gallium by Donald D. Clayton List Price $61.00 Your price: $58.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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X-Ray Polarimetry: A New Window in Astrophysics by Ronaldo Bellazzini List Price $110.00 Your price: $105.88 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Gravity from the Ground up by Bernard F. Schutz List Price $72.00 Your price: $69.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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An Introduction to Optical Stellar Interferometry by Antoine Labeyrie List Price $90.00 Your price: $86.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Current Issues in Cosmology by Jean Claude Pecker List Price $44.00 Your price: $42.35 Google eBooks - Electronic
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