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by Donald Goldsmith  Publisher Comments For decades, astronomers have sought to discover the ultimate fate of the universe. Will the cosmos continue forever in its expansion, which began billions of years ago with the big bang? Or will gravity someday reverse the process, producing a "big... (read more)  List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Arthur Upgren Book News Annotation Erudite, entertaining, and educational, this is an excellent introduction to astronomy at its most basic level, that of simple stargazing. Upgren (astronomy, Yale, Wesleyan) enriches his discussion of constellations with reference to myths, historical... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by K. C. Cole Publisher Comments K. C. Cole, the Los Angeles Times science writer and columnist, always has a fresh take on cutting-edge scientific discoveries, which she makes both understandable and very human. Reporting on physics, cosmology, mathematics, astronomy, and more, Cole's... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Norma G Sanchez Publisher Comments The impressive development of modern cosmology during the last decades is to a large extent due to its unification with elementary particle physics and quantum field theory, giving rise to the discipline of Astrofundamental Physics. The early universe is... (read more) List Price $96.00 Your price $55.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeff Adams Publisher Comments Funded by the National Science Foundation,Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy is designed to help make large lecture-format courses more interactive with easy-to-implement activities that can be integrated into existing course structures. The... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price $22.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Levy Publisher Comments From Halley to Hale-Bopp, comets have guided the thoughts, moods, and behavior of humans since the dawn of time. With a host of comet movies set for release next summer, books about this astounding galactic phenomenon are sure to sell with the same... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Gardner Publisher Comments Newly revised and updated guide by noted science authority incorporates latest information obtained by space probes, new telescopes, other sources. Fascinating facts about the sun and planets, moons, comets, asteroids, space flight, and more. Easy-to... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian Jones Publisher Comments From planets and asteroids to the expanding universe, The Practical Astronomer is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of astronomy. It not only shows you what to look for throughout the whole yearly cycle of the sky, but exactly how to go... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laurence Holt Books Synopsis A beginner's guide to navigating the heavens introduces readers to the basics of the night sky, employing an accessible style designed to enhance retention of facts and is accompanied by an appendix listing Web sites, books, clubs, and other resources... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Timothy Ferris Publisher Comments From the world-acclaimed author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way comes this delightfully engrossing, comprehensive, and comprehensible report on how science today envisions the universe as a whole. Timothy Ferris begins The Whole Shebang with a succinct... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Moore Publisher Comments Recent orbiting spacecraft with radar imaging systems are turning up new, intriguing, even disturbing information about our nearest neighbor. In age, size, density, and volume, Venus is most similar to our home planet. But there the similarity ends, as... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Malcolm S. Longair Publisher Comments The highly acclaimed first edition of High Energy Astrophysics instantly established itself as a classic in the teaching of contemporary astronomy. Reflecting the immense interest and developments in the subject, Professor Longair has developed the... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wenceslas S Jardetzky Publisher Comments Suitable for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, this text explores exact methods used in the theory of figures of equilibrium and examines problems concerning figures of celestial bodies, . 1958 edition.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth R. Lang Publisher Comments This Second Edition of Sun, Earth and Sky updates the popular text by providing comprehensive accounts of the most recent discoveries made by five modern solar spacecraft during the past decade. Their instruments have used sound waves to peer deep into... (read more) List Price $67.25 Your price $45.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Heather Couper Publisher Comments The saga of our universe—its birth, life, and death—is a tale of such epic proportions and complexity that only now, a million years after the dawn of humankind, are we in a position to tell it. In Universe, Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey Bennett Publisher Comments The Essential Cosmic Perspective, Fourth Edition has been thoroughly revised to include more quantitative coverage, an enhanced illustration and photo program, and an unparalleled new media package. Built from the ground up on our new understanding of... (read more) List Price $104.65 Your price $70.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen Taschek Publisher Comments In 1931, Karl Jansky was hired by AT&T to search for sources of static that might interfere with radio waves for transatlantic communications. Jansky identified static from thunderstorms and random radio noise from devices on Earth, but he also found a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Giles Sparrow Publisher Comments Kaboom! About 4.6 billion years ago, a swirling gas cloud comprised of carbon dust, hydrogen, helium, water and ice collapsed under its own gravity, creating an enormous explosion the — a big bang, so to speak. As it contracted, the solar system we... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey O. Bennett Publisher Comments Intended for readers interested in learning the basics of astronomy.... (read more) List Price $117.60 Your price $95.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ron Miller Publisher Comments Revised in 1993, this astronomy classic takes readers on an imaginative trip through every corner of the solar system, drawing on discoveries made by the "Voyager I, II, Magellan," and "Galileo" spacecraft missions, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Mars... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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