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Exploring the Moon Through Binoculars and Small Telescopes by Ernest Cherrington Publisher Comments Informative, profusely illustrated guide to locating and identifying craters, rills, seas, mountains, other lunar features. Newly revised and updated with special section of new photos. Over 100 photos and diagrams. "Extraordinary delight awaits the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Astrophotography: An Introduction to Film and Digital Imaging by H J P Arnold Publisher Comments How to photograph planets, stars, satellites, meteorites and other phenomena in the night sky. Includes equipment advice for digital and conventional photography, star charts and how to shoot photographs with telescopes.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Publisher Comments On the 10th anniversary of his death, brilliant astrophysisist and Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan's prescient exploration of the relationship between religion and science and his personal search for God. Carl Sagan is considered one of the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Stars: A New Way to See Them by H A Rey Publisher Comments This is a clear, vivid text with charts and maps showing the positions of the constellations the year round.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Live from Cape Canaveral by Jay Barbree Publisher Comments Some fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space fever the night that Sputnik passed over Georgia. He moved to the then-sleepy village of Cocoa Beach, Florida, right outside Cape Canaveral, and began reporting on rockets that fizzled... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos (Great Discoveries) by Michael Lemonick Publisher Comments Trained as a musician, amateur scientist William Herschel found international fame after discovering the planet Uranus in 1781. Though he is still best known for this finding, his partnership with his sister Caroline yielded groundbreaking work... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Don't Know Much about the Universe: Everything You Need to Know about Outer Space But Never Learned (Don't Know Much About...) by Kenneth C Davis Publisher Comments Who dug those canals on Mars? What was the biblical Star of Bethlehem? Were the pyramids built by extraterrestrials? From the ancients who charted the heavens to Star Trek, The X-Files, and Apollo 13, outer space has intrigued people through the ages... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Big Bang: The Birth of Our Universe by Paul Parsons Publisher Comments The moment when matter, along with time and space, came into being is the dramatic subject of The Big Bang: The Birth of Our Universe. Scientists are building an increasingly clear picture of the most important even of all -- the moment the Universe... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Aurora by Candace Savage Publisher Comments An illustrated history and explanation of the myths and science behind the aurora - includes both the traditional beliefs and the development of the contemporary scienctific theory about the northern lights.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond Pluto: Exploring the Outer Limits of the Solar System by John Davies Publisher Comments The story of how a group of theoretical physicists decided that there must be a population of unknown bodies beyond Pluto -- how a small band of astronomers set out to find them.... (read more) List Price $70.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut by Scott Carpenter Publisher Comments In 1962, an anxious nation watched on live TV as astronaut Scott Carpenter's Aurora 7 capsule malfunctioned during reentry. Only his courage and skill saved the day. But instead of praise for having the Right Stuff, Carpenter drew criticism for botching... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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New Light on Dark Stars (Springer Praxis Books in Astrophysics and Astronomy) by I Neill Reid Publisher Comments This book will present the first comprehensive discussion of both the astrophysical structure of individual M-dwarf and brown dwarf star, and their collective statistical properties as a Galactic stellar population. The first section of the book will... (read more) List Price $237.25 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Patrick Moore on Mars by Patrick Moore Publisher Comments An undisputed expert tells the full story of the "red planet", from age-old myths to the facts gleaned by modern spacecraft. This well-illustrated, fascinating account covers Mars's place in the solar system, geological formations, atmosphere, and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos by Alan W Hirshfeld Publisher Comments How can we measure the distance to a star? Beginning in ancient Greece, history's greatest scientific minds applied themselves to the problem in vain. Not until the nineteenth century would three men, armed with the best telescopes of their age, race to... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Seti 2020: a Roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Ronald D. Ekers Publisher Comments If you are interested in how researchers plan to search the heavens for signs of intelligent life, you should have this book. SETI 2020 is a new, and remarkably comprehensive study of how scientists busy with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stargazing (Collins Discover) by Peter Grego Publisher Comments <p><i>Collins Discover: Stargazing</i> is your one-stop guide to seeing the universe</p> <p>This user-friendly, authoritative resource includes full-color charts, easy-to-follow guidance, and illustrations showing you... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The 23rd Cycle: Learning to Live with a Stormy Star by Sten Odenwald Publisher Comments A NASA space scientist maps out the coming solar cycle -- and its catastrophic potential to disrupt worldwide power and communications systems. He includes a history of the record of auroral sightings, accounts of communications blackouts from the 20th... (read more) List Price $103.75 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Voyager: Exploration, Space, and the Third Great Age of Discovery by Stephen J Pyne Publisher Comments "Blooms with such glorious rushes of exalted prose that I was dog- earing almost every page." --The New York Times Book Review As debate over the future of NASA heats up, award-winning author Stephen J. Pyne presents America's greatest space expeditions... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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