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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Brian Greene presents the bizarre world of quantum mechanics and string theory using language accessible to all while taking the reader on an exciting journey through a truly unusual universe." Blane, Powells...
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Cosmos
by Carl Sagan Publisher Comments The best-selling science book ever published in the England language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today's knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots...
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The Universe Unveiled: Instruments and Images Through History
by Bruce Stephenson Publisher Comments The search for understanding creates more than answers; it also produces instruments, books, maps, and other tools made and used by those seeking knowledge. The Universe Unveiled uniquely focuses on these artifacts and devices resulting from the attempts...
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A Briefer History of Time
by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author’s engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time...
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
by Carl Sagan Publisher Comments Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature...
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Images of the Universe
by Pepin Press Publisher Comments The Universe offers an unending source of the most electrifying and mysterious imagery conceivable. The selection of marvellous pictures for PICTURES OF THE UNIVERSE has been made by a well-known specialist in the field of popular astronomy, and is...
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava Sobel
Publisher Comments While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial...
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Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded ((Rev)96 Edition)
by Stephen Hawking
Publisher Comments "A Brief History of Time", published in 1988, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing and in worldwide acclaim and popularity, with more than nine million copies sold. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature...
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Rocket Boys (98 Edition)
by Homer Hickman Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of...
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by Brian Greene
Powells.com Staff Pick Using Simpsons and X-Files examples, Brian Greene explains our current understanding of the universe. Whereas The Elegant Universe was primarily about the obscure, largely theoretical world of susperstring theory, Fabric of the Cosmos holds to more solid...
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October Sky
by Homer Hickam Publisher Comments The true story, originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film. It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain...
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The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos
by Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams Publisher Comments In this strikingly original book, a world-renowned cosmologist and an innovative writer of the history and philosophy of science uncover an astonishing truth: Humans actually are central to the universe. What does this mean for our culture and our...
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Discovering the Essential Universe 3RD Edition
by Neil F Comins Publisher Comments Based on the most recent edition of Discovering the Universe (©2006), this best-selling text is the most concise, least expensive option for introductory astronomy courses....
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The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began
by Stuart Clark Publisher Comments In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph systems crashed, machines burst into flames, and...
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Pale Blue Dot
by Carl Sagan Publisher Comments The long-awaited sequel to Pulitzer Prize-winner Carl Sagan's classic work Cosmos--the bestselling science book ever published in the English language. A compelling, erudite, and thoroughly entertaining look at man's changing awareness of his place in...
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The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery
by Guillermo Gonzalez Publisher Comments A convincing case that the rare, finely tuned conditions that allow for intelligent life on Earth are no coincidence, and that Earth was practically designed for discovery....
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Space
by Andrew Chaikin Synopsis Published to coincide with the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, an event set to attract over two billion viewers from across the globe. Fully authorized and produced in partnership with the official Olympic Museum, this unique sporting title and a treasure...
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The Universe: 365 Days
by Robert J Nemiroff Synopsis Photographs of outer space--produced by earthbound and space telescopes and planet-roving satellites--have captivated a vast audience. And nowhere has this audience found more enthralling views than on Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), a website so...
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Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang
by Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok Publisher Comments Distinguished theoretical physicists Steinhardt and Turok present a bold new cosmology regarding the Big Bang theory. They contend that what many think of as the moment of creation was simply part of an infinite cycle of titanic collisions between this...
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The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos
by James Gardner Publisher Comments What is the ultimate destiny of our universe? That is the striking question addressed by James Gardner in The Intelligent Universe. Traditionally, scientists (and Robert Frost) have offered two bleak answers to this profound issue: fire or ice. In The...
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