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A Briefer History of Time
by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
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From One of the Most Brilliant Minds of Our Time Comes a Book that Clarifies His Most Important Ideas Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, remains one of the landmark volumes in scientific writing of our time. But for years... ( read more)
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An Intimate Look at the Night Sky
by Chet Raymo
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On one level, An Intimate Look at the Night Sky is a unique star guide: twenty-four beautiful star maps, created specifically for this book, cycle through the seasons and across the heavens, revealing what you can see with the naked eye throughout the... ( read more)
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Space Flight
by Giles Sparrow
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This illustrated book about the history of man in space covers the 50 year quest for the final frontier from the first spaceflight to today’s missions and beyond. Covers US and Soviet space race, and charts the progress of technology needed to launch... ( read more)
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Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet
by Jim Bell
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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)
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This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (Modern Library)
by William E. Burrows
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It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond. ... ( read more)
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Astronomy and Culture (Greenwood Guides to the Universe)
by Edith W. Hetherington
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While astronomy is a burgeoning science, with tremendous increases in knowledge every year, it also has a tremendous past, one that has altered humanity's understanding of our place in the universe. The impact of astronomy on culture - whether through... ( read more)
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universe, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
by Michio Kaku
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The first book-length exploration of the most exciting development in modern physics, the theory of 10-dimensional space. The theory of hyperspace, which Michio Kaku pioneered, may be the leading candidate for the Theory of Everything that Einstein spent... ( read more)
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Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
by Graham Hancock
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The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was... ( read more)
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The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
by Owen Gingerich
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In the spring of 1543, as the celebrated astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus lay on his deathbed, his fellow clerics brought him a long-awaited package: the final printed pages of the book he had worked on for many years, De Revolutionibus (On the Revolutions... ( read more)
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Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos
by Alan W Hirshfeld
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In the dramatic tradition of the best-selling Longitude, Parallax charts the historical path of observational astronomy’s most daunting challenge: measuring the distance to a star. The greatest scientific minds applied themselves in vain to the... ( read more)
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