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by Dava Sobel  
Publisher Comments While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Mike Lynch Publisher Comments Hardcover w/hidden spiral 9-1/4 x 10-7/8 160 pgs approx. 90 color photos 23 illustrations 21 constellation charts 12 star maps 27 diagrams index... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Spiral) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert J Nemiroff Synopsis Photographs of outer space--produced by earthbound and space telescopes and planet-roving satellites--have captivated a vast audience. And nowhere has this audience found more enthralling views than on Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), a website so... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Evelyn Husband Publisher Comments Rick Husband wanted to be an astronaut since his fourth birthday, but it wasn?t always for the right reasons. Initially, he thought it would be neat . . . cool . . . a fun thing to do. It wasn?t until he came to a spiritual crossroads and was able to... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eli Maor Publisher Comments On June 8th, 2004, Venus will cross the Sun's face for the first time since 1882. Here, Maor tells the intriguing tale of the five Venus transits previously observed and the fantastic efforts made to record them. He also guides readers to the upcoming... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael J Crowe Publisher Comments This excellent book provides a solid introduction to the fundamentals of stellar astronomy, a history of astronomy and an account of how the emergence of the science of astronomy challenged traditional philosophical and theological beliefs. Throughout... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan I Katz Publisher Comments Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent events since the birth of the universe. They are about ten times more energetic than the most powerful supernovae. At their peak, gamma-ray bursts are the brightest objects in space, about 100,000 times brighter than... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $5.13 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Smith Publisher Comments The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys and were indelibly marked by it, for better or for worse. Journalist Andrew Smith... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Mishkin Publisher Comments Andrew Mishkin, a senior systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a leader of NASA's robotic program, delivers an insider's look at the Mars Pathfinder probe that electrified the world's imagination. 122 million miles away from her... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nancy Conrad Publisher Comments Pete Conrad was the third man on the moon, but he was the first to dance on it. This personal story is almost too amazing to be true, as seen through the eyes of the original Space Cowboy.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Homer Hickam Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (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 $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Homer Hickam Publisher Comments The true story, originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film. It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price $4.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Ward Publisher Comments An engrossing and revelatory first look at the search for alien life on Earth and beyond For the past twenty years, Peter Ward has been at the forefront of popular science writing, with books such as the influential and controversial Rare Earth. In Life... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Chet Raymo Publisher Comments Originally published two decades ago, The Soul of the Night is a classic work that is a must for those interested in the relationship between science and faith.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Maurice Finocchiaro Publisher Comments "A classic introduction to Galileo's masterpiece."--William A. Wallace, author of "Galileo's Logic of Discovery and... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Noble Wilford Synopsis Collected here at the most exciting moments of recent astronomical explorations, presented by the award-winning reporters of the "New York Times", conveying in detail the meaning and significance of what scientists have been learning about our universe... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Hoskin Publisher Comments This is a textbook on the history of astronomy focusing on the topics of prime importance.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Ward Publisher Comments Peter Ward is a distinguished professor, scientist, and author whose earlier book Rare Earth, with its dim view of the possibilities of complex life beyond our planet, created a rift in the science community so controversial he was featured on the front... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Fred W Price Publisher Comments '\'The planets have long exerted an unusual fascination on observers of the night sky. This handbook provides the first thorough, practical guide to observing the planets for amateur astronomers. Stressing practical advice, Price shows the reader in... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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