Astronomy
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Bang! The Complete History of the Universe
by Brian May and Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott  Publisher Comments Who knows what Brian May was thinking when he wrote We Will Rock You for Queen? As a lifelong astrophysics aficionado, he may have been thinking about the origins of the universe. He's certainly been thinking about it lately. May, a freshly minted...
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Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics
by Renee Bergland Publisher Comments New England blossomed in the nineteenth century, producing a crop of distinctively American writers along with distinguished philosophers and jurists, abolitionists and scholars. A few of the female stars of this era--Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller...
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The Goldilocks Engima: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?
by Paul Davies Publisher Comments In the successor to his provocative bestseller The Mind of God, the cosmologist Paul Davies tackles another big question: Why does the universe seem so well suited for life? One popular explanation is the multiverse theory, which sounds like it came...
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Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes
by Michael Benson Publisher Comments "An aesthetic revelation. . . . A spectacular melding of science and art."—Los Angeles Times Now in an affordable paperback edition accompanying a national touring exhibition that The New York Times acclaimed as "stunning," this epic photographic...
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The Brightest Stars: Discovering the Universe Through the Sky's Most Brilliant Stars
by Fred Schaaf Publisher Comments Fred Schaaf is one of the most experienced astronomical observers of our time. For more than two decades, his view of the sky-what will be visible, when it will be visible, and what it will look like-has encouraged tens of thousands of people to turn...
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Cosmology
by Steven Weinberg Publisher Comments This book is unique in the detailed, self-contained, and comprehensive treatment that it gives to the ideas and formulas that are used and tested in modern cosmological research. It divides into two parts, each of which provides enough material for a one-...
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To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)
by Chris Gainor Publisher Comments Although the dream of flying is as old as the human imagination, the notion of actually rocketing into space may have originated with Chinese experiments with gunpowder in the Middle Ages. Rockets as weapons and entertainment, whether sprung from science...
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A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East (Brief Introduction)
by John M. Steele Publisher Comments The Middle East was both the birthplace of astronomy and the center for its development during the medieval period, and this volume offers a fascinating insight into Arabic advances in astronomy and their profound influence on science in the rest of the...
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An Introduction to Space Weather
by Mark Moldwin Publisher Comments Space weather is an emerging field of space science focused on understanding societal and technological impacts of the solar-terrestrial relationship. The Sun, which has tremendous influence on Earth's space environment, releases vast amounts of energy...
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Keep Watching the Skies! The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age
by W. Patrick McCray Publisher Comments When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. Known as the Moonwatchers, these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Astronomy (Complete Idiot's Guides)
by Christopher De Pree and Alan Axelrod Publisher Comments Look to the stars. Although Astronomy has been around for more than 5,500 years, astronomers say that we've learned more than 90% of what we know about the universe in just the last 50, and much of that in the last decade. The Complete Idiots Guide to...
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Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored
by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton Publisher Comments In the early 1980s, when the two Voyager spacecraft skimmed past Titan, Saturn's largest moon, they transmitted back enticing images of a mysterious world concealed in a seemingly impenetrable orange haze. Titan Unveiled is one of the first general...
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The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology
by Joseph Silk Publisher Comments In The Infinite Cosmos Joseph Silk takes the reader on a tour of the universe, past, present, and future, showing how the very latest observations and theories are unlocking clues about its origin and structure: X-ray, radio, and high-energy views of the...
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Stargazing Secrets: A Guide to Skywatching Using Binoculars and Telescopes
by Anton Vamplew Publisher Comments Want to find out what you can see in the night sky with your telescope? Stargazing Secrets guides you through everything that can be seen in the night sky beyond the naked eye. It is packed with information and illustrated with original star charts...
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The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments From "America’s 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...
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The Solar System Beyond Neptune
by Ma Barucci Publisher Comments A new frontier in our solar system opened with the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and the extensive population of icy bodies orbiting beyond Neptune. Today the study of all of these bodies, collectively referred to as trans-Neptunian objects, reveals them...
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NASA: The Complete Illustrated History
by Michael Gorn Synopsis The first illustrated history of NASA ever to be published, this book tells the remarkable story of space exploration from the early twentieth century to the present day....
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Astronomy on the Personal Computer with CDROM
by Oliver Montenbruck Publisher Comments Astronomy on the Personal Computer provides the reader with a thorough introduction to the computation of celestial mechanics, which is of particular significance to astronomical observation. Covering everything from astronomical and computational theory...
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Rough Guide To the Universe 2ND Edition
by John Scalzi Publisher Comments Whether you're a novice or a more experienced astronomer, The Rough Guide to The Universe is indispensable. The truth may or may not be out there, but space is the place to look, and the Rough Guide to the Universe takes it all in, from our own moon to...
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