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by Bruce Jakosky  Publisher Comments Aimed at the general reader, this is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and readable account of the scientific basis for thinking there may be life elsewhere in the Universe.... (read more)  List Price $45.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Colin Burgess Publisher Comments Christa McAuliffe's name is deeply entrenched in American history as the teacher who died when the Challenger exploded in January 1986. Innovative and devoted to her profession, Christa brought to her own life and to her students the joy and excitement... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack Newton Publisher Comments Getting started in amateur astronomy can be frustrating. Without a helpful friend to lend advice, choosing a telescope, learning the buzzwords, or viewing the deep sky season by season can seem daunting. Now amateur astronomers can turn to The Guide to... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $19.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Ridpath Synopsis A clear and detailed guide to identifying stars and planets.... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies
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by John Noble Wilford Synopsis Collected here at the most exciting moments of recent astronomical explorations, presented by the award-winning reporters of the "New York Times", conveying in detail the meaning and significance of what scientists have been learning about our universe... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Baum Publisher Comments Presented for the first time in popular form is the fascinating true story of the search for the phantom planet Vulcan. As with legends of "the lost continent of Atlantis," scientists and dreamers alike have sought to prove that Vulcan is more than just... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jay Apt Publisher Comments This stunning, one-of-a-kind collection of photographs by NASA astronauts showcases the startling beauty--and saddening devastation--of Earth from a perspective few will ever experience. On his historic 1962 orbital flight, John Glenn made a request to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bob Ward Publisher Comments Dr. Space provides a rare, balanced study of the complex, still-controversial father of modern rocketry. Written by veteran space-program journalist Bob Ward, who covered Wernher von Braun and his team at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Oberg Publisher Comments Oberg combines the sleuthfullness of a detective with the pacing of a storyteller.--Nasawatch.com In Star-Crossed Orbits, space veteran and bestselling author James Oberg combines riveting personal memoir with topnotch investigative journalism to tell... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Francis Reddy and Greg Walz-Chojnacki Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-259) and index.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Williamson Publisher Comments A comprehensive, up-to-date and easy-to-use reference tool for anyone interested in space activity.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James B. Kaler Publisher Comments This unique encyclopedia provides a fascinating and fully comprehensive description of stars and their natures and is filled with beautiful color images. The book begins by telling the story of astronomy, from ancient constellations and star names to... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Louis Heudier Publisher Comments An annual Northern Hemisphere observer's guide to astronomy organized chronologically, including the moon's phases, planetary and star positions, star charts, historical details and tips. A solid introduction for amateur astronomers of all ages.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Angus Armitage Publisher Comments Masterly and authoritative, this account of Copernicus' heliocentric planetary theory relates astronomy's historical background and provides a fascinating portrait of the man who clarified the basis for modern cosmology. An introduction traces the roots... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 Eugene Fowler Publisher Comments One Small Step: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Apollo 11 and the Race to the Moon traces John F. Kennedy's 1961 commitment to put a man on the moon by the end of that decade through to the Apollo 11 crew training, the famous lunar landing and the... (read more) List Price $14.98 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul J. Green Publisher Comments Peer Instruction for Astronomy is an instructor's guide to an exciting and easily-implemented enhancement for lecture classes in introductory astronomy. Application of this powerful and efficient teaching technique requires that the instructor have on... (read more) Your price $25.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mitchell Begelman Publisher Comments Turn Right at Orion is the account of an epic astronomical journey, discovered sixty million years in Earth's future-the product of one man's amazing, revelatory, and occasionally perilous space odyssey. Astrophysicist Mitchell Begelman takes the reader... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kitty Ferguson Publisher Comments More than 2,000 years ago, Eratosthenes, in Alexandria, used a stick, a hole in the ground, sunllght at summer solstice, and elementary geometry to measure the circumference of the Earth with surprising accuracy, long before anyone was able to... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dennis Piszkiewicz Publisher Comments Perhaps no one in history has played the role of scientist as celebrity with as much skill--and as much deception--as Wernher von Braun. America's leading rocket expert and most enthusiastic advocate of space travel, he had a closet full of secrets that... (read more) Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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