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by Max Caspar  Publisher Comments Definitive biography covers Kepler's scientific accomplishments -- laws of planetary motion, work with calculus, optics, more -- plus public and personal life, more. Introduction and Notes by Owen Gingerich.... (read more)  List Price $18.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Michael Hoskin Publisher Comments This is a textbook on the history of astronomy focusing on the topics of prime importance.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by T&j Synopsis Nowadays we have stopped watching the sky. We are so submerged by our towns' lights, constantly busy, hypnotised by the television, that we hardly have time to contemplate the sky at night.We forget the stars' beauty, the planet's slow sliding, the lunar... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jim Bell Publisher Comments The most fantastic of all journeys (the Spirit and Opportunity mobile robot missions to the surface of Mars) produced over 150,000 astonishing photographs. While the images were made available on low-resolution computer screens as they were sent back... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mike Mullane Publisher Comments On February 1, 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts, twenty-nine men and six women, were introduced to the world. Among them would be history makers, including the first American woman and the first African American in space. This assembly... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stanley Schmidt Publisher Comments Take off on a thrilling journey of space exploration and speculation - to the realm where science fiction becomes science fact - as leading writers, researchers, and astronautic engineers describe a not-too-distant future of interstellar travel and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gunter D Roth Publisher Comments The book also goes back through history to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians for their philosophy and science of the cosmos, and then investigates the methods of modern astrophysics and new technologies.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Greg Klerkx Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-372) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $6.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David A. Weintraub Publisher Comments This volume tells the story of how the meaning of the word "planet" has changed from antiquity to the present day, as new objects in our solar system have been discovered. In lively, thoroughly accessible prose, Weintraub provides the historical... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bernard Abrams Publisher Comments We are still learning about the large-scale structures of the universe. Abrams and Stecker describe what we currently know of the near and far universe, but what sets this book apart from the rest is the illustrations. Stecker has a collection of some of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Softcvr W/comp Media) check for new and sale copies
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by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton Publisher Comments Lifting Titan's Veil is a revealing account of the second largest moon in our solar system. This world in orbit around Saturn is the only body in the solar system with an atmosphere strikingly similar to Earth's. Titan is like a giant frozen laboratory... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Weil Publisher Comments This is a classic American tale of dreams and obsession--the suspenseful, brilliantly written account of one eccentric man’s hunger to open space travel to us all: to let us rocket into orbit, return to earth, and soar yet again--thus transforming... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher De Pree Publisher Comments You're no idiot, of course. You can tell a shooting star when you see one, spot the Big Dipper, and name all the astronauts from the first moon landing. But when it comes to understanding astronomy, you feel like you're lost in space. Don't go supernova... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Zubrin Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-343) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $5.13 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee Publisher Comments In a landmark work of science two distinguished scientists offer a vivid narrative describing the second half of the life of our planet Planet Earth is middle-aged. Science has worked hard to piece together the story of the evolution of our world up to... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Albert A Harrison Publisher Comments Albert Harrison examines in detail the psychological, sociological, political, and cultural dimensions of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. By so doing, he firmly establishes that the behavioral and social sciences are as integral to the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Franci Graham Smith Publisher Comments Professor Sir Francis Graham-Smith, the current Astronomer Royal, and Professor Sir Bernard Lovell are two of the most distinguished and influential astronomers of our time. In Pathways to the Universe they provide an introduction to the subject which... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $1.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Martinez Publisher Comments This guide provides comprehensive practical information for both beginning and advanced amateur astronomers on how to make scientifically significant observations. The book explains in detail how to observe every conceivable astronomical object--from... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Antonin Rukl Publisher Comments Explore the heavens with this ultimate celestial guidebook! Chock-full of glorious photographs, easy-to-read charts and detailed maps -- there's an image or two on virtually every spread -- it answers every beginner's questions. Start with the most... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Light Publisher Comments The most thrilling of all journeys--the missions of the Apollo astronauts to the surface of the Moon and back--yielded 32,000 extraordinarily beautiful photographs, the record of a unique human achievement. Until recently, only a handful of these... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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