Astronomy

drawing On The Current Cross-pollination Of Geology, Biology, And Astrophysics, origins Makes The Astonishing Astronomical Discoveries Of Recent Years Come...

An intimate history of Earth and the quest for life beyond the solar systemFor 4.6 billion years our living planet has been alone in a vast and silent univ...

With her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compel...

This Book Tells The Story Of The Many Brilliant, Often Eccentric Scientists Who Fought Against The Establishment Idea Of An Eternal And Unchanging Cosmos. F...

Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson Presents His Views On The Future Of Space Travel And America's Role In That Future, Giving His Readers An Eye-opening Man...

Using Data From Very Recent Scientific Discoveries, The Author Reveals The Six Numbers Upon Which All Physical Reality Rests, From Atomic Structure To Human...

A prize-winning popular science writer uses mathematical modeling to explain the cosmos.In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating gui...

Collects Writings From Several Leading Theoretical Physicists And Cosmologists That Offer An Overview Of Our Scientific Understanding Of The Universe As It ...

With 250,000 copies in print since its initial publication in 1983, NightWatch has become a standard reference guide for stargazers throughout North Ameri...

Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted uni...

the Amateur Stargazer's Ultimate Home Companion 365 Starry Nights Is A Unique And Fascinating Introduction To Astronomy Designed To Give You A Complete, Cl...

WHAT ARE THESE GRACEFUL VISITORS TO OUR SKIES? WE NOW KNOW THAT THEY BRING BOTH LIFE AND DEATH AND TEACH US ABOUT OUR ORIGINS. Comet begins with a breatht...

The adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic clock in W...

Directing His Polemics Against The Pedantry Of His Time, Galileo, As His Own Popularizer, Addressed His Writings To Contemporary Laymen. His Support Of Cope...

Brian Greene. Previously Published: New York : W. W. Norton, C1999. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 427-428) And Index.Categories: Science & Mat...

This Revised And Updated Edition Integrates The Latest In Modern Technology With Traditional Cartographic Principles. While Providing A Solid Conceptual Fou...

The goal of this book is to allow you to begin with a "blank sheet of paper" and design a space mission to meet a set of broad, often poorly defined, object...

As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Kepler’s law of planetary motion and Newto...

What do you care what other people think further adventures of a curious character is a captivating collection of reminiscences from freewheeling scientific...

This Is The First Comprehensive, Yet Clearly Presented, Account Of Statistical Methods For Analysing Spherical Data. The Analysis Of Data, In The Form Of Di...

In this extraordinary Baedeker—accessible, up-to-date, and prodigiously illustrated with photographs from Mariner 9, Viking, Pathfinder, the Hubble Space ...

Discovering the Universe is the best-selling brief text for descriptive one-term astronomy courses (especially those with no mathematics prerequisites). Ca...

NATIONAL BEST SELLERA stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Stat...

Thoroughly Revised, Up To Date And Completely Reset In An Easily Readable Style Virtually All Chapters Have Been Rewritten And The Contents Rearranged ...

By Robert M. Zubrin With Richard Wagner ; Foreword By Arthur C. Clarke. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 335-336) And Index.Categories: Engineering &...

From the prizewinning author who has been called "the greatest science writer in the world" comes this delightfully comprehensive and comprehensible repor...

Heather Couper And Nigel Henbest. Includes Index.Categories: Science & Math Astronomy & Space ScienceAstronomy

50 Things to See with a Small Telescope explores the planets, stars, galaxies and nebulae visible from your own backyard! The book includes easy to follow s...

Eager To Bring To His Original Text The New Knowledge Revealed By These Observations, As Well As His Own Recent Research, Professor Hawking Has Prepared A N...

Written In Simple And Accessible Language, This Non-technical Introduction To Cosmology, Or The Creation And Development Of The Universe, Explains The Disci...

Viewers Of Fox's Cosmos Have Recognized Neil Degrasse Tyson's Talent For Guiding Them Through The Mysteries Of Outer Space With Clarity And Enthusiasm. Brin...

In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. Th...

Full color version available through other online sellers.This is the Black & White version. We highly recommend that you invest in the full color editi...

Includes Index.Categories: Science & Math Astronomy & Space ScienceAstronomy

The World-renowned Physicist Presents A Revolutionary Look At The Momentous Discoveries That Changed The Perception Of The World With This First-ever Compil...

Exploring the Night Sky is aimed at novice star gazers anxious to expand their astronomical repertoire beyond the Big and Little Dippers. Dickinson has de...

Donald Goldsmith, Tobias Owen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Science & Math Biological SciencesBiology

In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine mill...