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by Bill Corbett  Publisher Comments Part buyer's guide, part instruction manual, this one-of-a-kind reference sorts out all the essential details.... (read more)  List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Rocky Kolb Publisher Comments In this immensely readable book, noted cosmologist Rocky Kolb reveals the very human struggles of astronomy superstars seeking cosmic truths while lost in the clouds of confusion. Punctuated by the authors razor-sharp wit, this book provides anyone... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jacqueline Mitton Book News Annotation A former Norwegian Director General of Forestry hikes through the forestry issue in a number of dimensions, from past to future, from production to conservation, and from local interests to global needs. He explains how to improve the aggregate... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Bruce Kelsey Publisher Comments Offers twelve expeditions to exciting lunar features that you can see with a telescope from your backyard.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leïla Haddad and Alain Cirou Publisher Comments Mapping the Sky combines a practical how-to guide to star-watching with the fascinating history of astronomical discovery. In part one, author Leïla Haddad tells how the universe has been understood and explored; starting with ancient Greek... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $2.48 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Storm Dunlop Publisher Comments A concise, illustrated guidebook for amateur astronomers. With straightforward text and color illustrations, Practical Astronomy covers all the basics amateur astronomers need to know. Astronomer Storm Dunlop explains how to observe the night sky using... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Moore Publisher Comments Sir Patrick Moore, CBE, FRS has long been the scourge of those people selling low-cost astronomical telescopes via mail-order catalogues and non-specialist stores. Ten years ago the quality was appalling and disappointment would have been almost... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Don Machholz Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-95) and index.... (read more) Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric M Schlegel Publisher Comments Carl Sagan once noted that there is only one generation that gets to see things for the first time. We are in the midst of such a time right now, standing on the threshold of discovery in the young and remarkable field of X-ray astronomy. In The Restless... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Gribbin Publisher Comments Over the past few years, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided us with images of astonishing clarity and detail, images that have revolutionized how scientists and incidental stargazers alike perceive our universe. Other space probes, such as Galileo... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Moore Publisher Comments New in Paper Patrick Moore has taken readers to Mars and the Moon--and now, this world-famous astronomer leads a guided tour of Venus, where the atmospheric pressure is 92 times that of Earth, temperatures are scorching, and the atmosphere bubbles with... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Zubrin Publisher Comments The man celebrated as "the Christopher Columbus of Mars" brings us to the very brink of human exploration. Using nuts-and-bolts engineering and a unique grasp of human history, Robert Zubrin takes us to the not-very-distant future, when our global... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Matthew Brzezinski Publisher Comments For the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, the behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space The spy planes were driving Nikita Khrushchev mad. Whenever America wanted to peer inside the Soviet Union... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Donna Henes Publisher Comments Henes brings together a wide range of writings about the moon from Mother Goose to Galileo. Includes a comprehensive encyclopedia of lunar terminology, a timeline of lunar explorations, and biographies of illustrious moon watchers.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Julius Benton Publisher Comments This new series is designed especially for practical amateur astronomers who not only want to observe, but want to know the details of exactly what they are looking at. Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system, and the only one with a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fred Schaaf Publisher Comments Fred Schaaf is one of the most experienced astronomical observers of our time. For more than two decades, his view of the sky-what will be visible, when it will be visible, and what it will look like-has encouraged tens of thousands of people to turn... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daily News Dayton Publisher Comments At the age of 77, John Glenn, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, will return to orbit, making him the oldest person ever in space. This is the step-by-step story of that heroic mission, told by award-winning journalists who have chronicled... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jay M. Pasachoff and John R. Percy Publisher Comments A comprehensive and well illustrated book of international teaching technology and expertise in astronomy.... (read more) Your price $110.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dana Berry Publisher Comments What does "dark energy" look like? Or a black hole swallowing an entire solar system? NASA illustrator Berry takes the reader by the hand for a visual tour of the "new" cosmos, to the farthest imaginable reaches of space.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence Krauss Publisher Comments In this new edition of The Fifth Essence, the single best book ever written on the mystery of "dark matter" in the universe, Krauss shows how the dark-matter problem is now connected with two of the hottest areas in recent cosmology: the fate of the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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