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by Ken Croswell  Publisher Comments "The Alchemy Of The Heavens offers an exciting and accessible survey of what we know about our galaxy. The home of the earth, the sun, and countless other stars, the Milky Way has long been an object of human fascintation, but it's been in the last forty... (read more)  List Price $19.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles Publisher Comments Almost Heaven tells the stories of the remarkable women who have bravely met two challenges: the risk of space travel and the struggle to succeed in a man's world. From Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Sally Ride in 1983 to Kalpana Chawla and Lauren... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Terence Dickinson Publisher Comments Award-winning astronomy writer Terence Dickinson takes readers on a factual journey in space and time from the Earth's surface to the most remote boundaries of the universe - and beyond. This major revision of an astronomy classic features 50 new... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $5.28 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Burrows Publisher Comments This New Ocean is a masterful major history of the space age, beautifully written, with exciting ideas and concepts, told by a man who has spent most of his adult life studying the field. The book explores a world that, until the middle of this century... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Laura S Woodmansee Publisher Comments As hoteliers design zero-gravity hotel suites for out-of-this-world unions and with the first honeymoon in space already scheduled, this provocative account reveals the truth about romantic rendezvous in Earth's orbit and beyond as well as the advantages... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Moore Publisher Comments Patrick Moore, one of the world's best-known astronomers and host of the BBC's record-breaking series "The Sky at Night," joins forces with celebrated "space artist" David Hardy in a lavishly illustrated look at our evolving images of space. Looking back... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Fischer Publisher Comments At last, a book presenting the fantastic scientific results of the first five years of Hubble Space Telescope observations! While a number of books for the general public emphasize the technological accomplishments of this multi-billion dollar project or... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Valerie Neal Publisher Comments In the decades since the launch of Sputnik, the world has thrilled to the long-dreamed-of moon walks of the Apollo astronauts, marvelled at spectacular photographs of the outer planets brought to us by Voyager, and watched in horror as the Challenger... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey O. Bennett Publisher Comments This text is designed to generate enthusiasm for astronomy in the fashion of the books of the late Carl Sagan. Written by a highly renowned educator and science writer, the book highlights ten of the most important astronomical mysteries that will... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Squyres Publisher Comments From the charismatic scientist and leader of the Mars Exploration Rover mission comes a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the search for life on Mars. Squyres leads readers through the amazing story of the journeys to Mars by "Spirit" and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur Phili Norton Publisher Comments Generations of amateur astronomers have called it simply Norton's - the most famous Star Atlas in the world. It's immediate success was largely due to Norton's uniquely accessible accessible arrangement of maps in slices, or 'gores' each covering... (read more) List Price $44.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth C Davis Publisher Comments From the ancients who charted the stars, to Jules Verne and Flash Gordon, to The X-Files, Apollo 13, and Armageddon, subjects engaging the heavens and outer space have intrigued people through the ages. And yet so many of us look up at the night sky and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Levy Publisher Comments The perfect introduction for the novice astronomer, this book stirs the imagination and puts observation in a framework of social activity and personal adventure. Written by an award-winning amateur astronomer and columnist, it is a technical guide to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur I Miller Publisher Comments In August 1930, on a voyage from Madras to London, a young Indian looked up at the stars and contemplated their fate. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Chandra, as he was called) calculated that certain stars would suffer a most violent death, collapsing to... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J R Jokipii Publisher Comments Contributors examine the physics of wind origin and physical phenomena in winds, including heliospheric shocks, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, and kinetic phenomena--and their interactions with surrounding media. Contributions range from studies of the... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William L. Fox Publisher Comments Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic is the world's largest uninhabited island, a place the size of West Virginia nine hundred miles from the North Pole. In its center is the world's only impact crater in a polar desert, a hole twelve miles across... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hans Augusto Rey Publisher Comments This is a clear, vivid text with charts and maps showing the positions of the constellations the year round.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James R. Hansen Publisher Comments On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no words in human history became better known than those few... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicolaus Copernicus Publisher Comments New to the On the Shoulders of Giants series, this groundbreaking work of astronomy proposed a heliocentric universe in which planets orbited the sun--daring to challenge the Ptolemaic idea of the earth as the center of the universe.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Homer H. Hickam Publisher Comments Concluding his trilogy of memoirs begun in "October Sky, " the author returns to Coalwood, West Virginia, recalling the summer of 1961. With a year of college behind him, Homer "Sonny" Hickam returns home when his father, the superintendent of the coal... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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