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Nightwatch 4TH Edition a Practical Guide To Viewing by Terence Dickinson Publisher Comments Why people write Thoroughly revised, updated and expanded. How writing began in different parts of the world How climate and available materials affected the forms of writing The first three editions of NightWatch sold more than 600,000 copies, making it... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $18.00 (Used - Spiral) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Out of the Cradle: Exploring the Frontiers Beyond Earth by William K Hartmann Publisher Comments EARTH IS THE CRADLE OF HUMANITY, BUT ONE CANNOT LIVE IN THE CRADLE FOREVER. -Konstantin Tsiolkovsky The adventure has begun. The first fledgling steps off the planet have been taken: a satellite, man in space, the first walk on the moon, space stations... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Our Cosmic Future: Humanity's Fate in the Universe by Nilkos Prantzos Publisher Comments A gripping preview of humanity's future in the Universe, drawing on current scientific knowledge, historical accounts and classic science fiction.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World by Oliver Morton Publisher Comments Who are the extraordinary individuals that will take us on the next great space race, the next great human endeavor, our exploration and colonization of the planet Mars? And more importantly, how are they doing it? Acclaimed science writer Oliver Morton... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Earth from Space (Audubon Society Pocket Guides) by Amy Leventer Publisher Comments National Audubon Society Pocket Guides Other guides in this series: Animal Tracks -- Birds (Eastern Region) -- Birds (Western Region) -- Birds of Lakes and Rivers -- Birds of Prey -- Birds of Sea and Shore -- Butterflies -- Cacti -- Clouds and Storms... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Facts on File Space and Astronomy Handbook (Facts on File Science Handbooks) by Joseph A Angelo Publisher Comments Among the topics covered are: Active Galaxies Big Bang Theory Deep Space Network (DSN) International Space Station (ISS) Luminosity Planet Fall Space Transportation System (STS). Biographies include: Neil Armstrong Friedrich W. Bessel Tycho Brahe... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Heavens on Fire by Mark Littmann Publisher Comments Meteor succeeded meteor in such rapid succession that it was impossible to count them; at times the sky seemed full of them, and the earth was illuminated as with a morning light. Eye-witness accounts such as this, and every spectacular detail of the... (read more) List Price $67.25 Your price $3.24 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler Publisher Comments Kepler's great masterpiece on planetary motion is presented with an introduction by the ultimate authority on this topic, noted physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking. Kepler's work formed the basis for Newton's discoveries some 60 years later.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Night Has a Thousand Eyes: A Naked-Eye Guide to the Sky, Its Science and Lore by Arthur Upgren Publisher Comments Do you sometimes wonder why the sky at dusk is filled with color, or how the moon controls the tides? Why do stars twinkle and planets don't? Filled with science and lore, with references to myths, legends, "high" and popular culture, this "naked-eye... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Challenger Revealed: An Insider's Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age by Richard C. Cook Publisher Comments The Reagan Administration pushed hard for NASA to launch shuttle mission 51L, before it was ready. 73 seconds into the launch, the shuttle exploded, killing seven people and leaving a nation traumatized. Richard Cook, the lead resource analyst at NASA... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Astronomy on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race by David Scott Publisher Comments “An extraordinary book.” ---Arthur C. Clarke Space was one of the most fiercely fought battlegrounds of the Cold War, the Moon its ultimate beachhead. In this dual autobiography, Apollo 15 commander David Scott and cosmonaut... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8 by Robert Zimmerman Book News Annotation An account of the 1968 Apollo 8 mission to the moon, weaving details of the mission into the saga of the three astronauts' careers, family lives, and the emotional and spiritual after-effects of their historic journey. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list All We Did Was Fly to the Moon by Dick Lattimer Publisher Comments SUPERANNO A mini-history of America's Manned Moon Program of the 1960s and 70s. Includes all Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab flights in chronological order. Input from twenty-eight of the astronauts that made these historic flights explaining why... (read more) Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet by Steven Squyres Publisher Comments From the charismatic scientist and leader of the Mars Exploration Rover mission, a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the search for life on Mars. Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Summer Stargazing: A Practical Guide for Recreational Astronomers by Terence Dickinson Publisher Comments A beautifully illustrated guide to night sky observation in the most popular season: summer. All that is needed is reasonably dark night sky, a pair of binoculars, and this book.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Space 50 by Piers Bizony Publisher Comments A half-century history of space exploration documents efforts from Sputnik to the present day, in a visual tour that profiles such subjects as a Gemini space capsule, the decontamination unit that housed the Apollo XI astronauts, and deep-field images of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How to Use an Astronomical Telescope by James Muirden Publisher Comments For the beginning astronomer here is a comprehensive book covering everything from the difficult task of selecting an instrument to the equally daunting choices that arise when a telescope is turned to the heavens.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Smithsonian Book of Mars (Smithsonian Library of the Solar System) by Joseph M Boyce Publisher Comments From 1985 to 2000 Joseph Boyce provided scientific leadership to NASA as its Mars exploration program scientist. He has lived much of the history of the planet's exploration, and his findings have helped to determine what we know about Mars today. The... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics (Princeton Series in Astrophysics) by John N Bahcall Publisher Comments The field of astrophysics is in the midst of a technological renaissance. The emphasis of this collection of essays, composed by a stellar group of astronomers and astrophysicists, is on the current state of our knowledge as a preparation for future... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Starry Night: Astronomers and Poets Read the Sky by David H Levy Publisher Comments Acclaimed science writer David Levy has written this wonderful jewel of a book to celebrate the complementary visions of poetry and astronomy.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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