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by Dava Sobel  
Synopsis 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 $16.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Mark Voit Synopsis Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble space telescope has provided astronomers with both information about the universe and extraordinary images. This book contains over 100 colour inages from the Hubble.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack Repcheck Publisher Comments Nicolaus Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of the modern age, the theory that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun. He was also the first to proclaim that the earth rotates on its axis once every... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dava Sobel
Publisher Comments Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Chet Raymo Synopsis Originally published two decades ago, The Soul of the Night is a classic work that is a must for those interested in the relationship between science and faith.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $11.99 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jim Lovell Publisher Comments In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent Navy Captain Jim Lovell and two other astronauts on America's fifth mission to the moon. Only fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck: a mysterious... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Martineau Publisher Comments A most unusual guide to the solar system, A Little Book of Coincidence suggests that there may be fundamental relationships between space, time, and life that have not yet been fully understood. From the observations of Ptolemy and Kepler to the Harmony... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by George Pendle Publisher Comments "Brilliant Rocket Scientist Killed in Explosion!" screamed the front-page headline of the Los Angeles Times on June 18, 1952. John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer whose work had helped transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plotline into a reality, was... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rea Synopsis Achievements in aerospace would not be possible without mathematics. To interest the aerospace enthusiast, this book presents a collection of problems that are encountered in space. The problems are accompanied by solutions using only high school-level... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Galileo Galilei Publisher Comments Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of a telescope, and his... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mike Lynch Publisher Comments Hardcover w/hidden spiral 9-1/4 x 10-7/8 160 pgs approx. 90 color photos 23 illustrations 21 constellation charts 12 star maps 27 diagrams index... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Spiral) check for new and sale copies
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by Marcelo Gleiser Publisher Comments TRACING OUR CONTEMPLATION of the cosmos from the big bang to the big crunch (The New Yorker). Marcelo Gleiser explores the shared quest of ancient prophets and today's astronomers to explain the strange phenomena of our skies--from the apocalypse... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth C Davis Publisher Comments From the ancients who charted the stars, to Jules Verne and Flash Gordon, to The X-Files, Apollo 13, and Armageddon, people around the world have long been intrigued with the heavens and outer space. Don’ t Know Much About the Universe, the fifth... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Homer Hickam Publisher Comments From the #1 bestselling author of October Sky comes this rich, unforgettable tale. With the same dazzling storytelling that distinguished his first memoir, Homer Hickam takes us deeper into the soul of his West Virginia hometown at a moment when its... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Rod Pyle Publisher Comments The Apollo space program was the largest technological undertaking of all time, and let to the greatest adventure of the 20th century. Born of the cold war, it was moved forward by the passion of 100,000 workers and $20 billion over ten years. Over that... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robin Heath Publisher Comments Every organism on Earth responds to four major cycles: the solar and lunar day, the synodic month and the year. We all dance to these primary rhythms. This book reveals the poetic cosmology that lies within the cycles of the Sun and Moon as seen from the... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles Publisher Comments Almost Heaven tells the stories of the remarkable women who have bravely met two challenges: the risk of space travel and the struggle to succeed in a man's world. From Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Sally Ride in 1983 to Kalpana Chawla and Lauren... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Owen Gingerich
Publisher Comments In the spring of 1543, as the celebrated astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus lay on his deathbed, his fellow clerics brought him a long-awaited package: the final printed pages of the book he had worked on for many years, De Revolutionibus (On the Revolutions... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dava Sobel
Powells.com Staff Pick Using scientific facts and cultural background, Sobel continues in her witty and knowledgeable fashion with this absorbing ode to our solar system. Lyrical, personal, and engaging. Recommended by Ann, Powells.com... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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