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Night Sky

A Guide To Field Identification

Golden Field Guide from St. Martin's Press

Mark R. Chartrand, Senior Vice President, National Space Society; Illustrated by Helmut K. Wimmer Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press

Golden Field Guides from St. Martin's Press are the leading nature guides for the classroom. Thorough and authoritative, they are also compact and lightweight, designed for portability and easy access.

Trade Paperback : $12.95 Buy	Longitude The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Dava Sobel Walker & Company "As much a tale of intrigue as it is of science . . . A book full of gems for anyone interested in history, geography, astronomy, navigation, clock making, and—not the least—plain old human ambition and greed."—The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Many Worlds in One

The Search for Other Universes

Alex Vilenkin Hill and Wang

"A wonderful tour of modern cosmology, wittily directed by one of the most gifted practitioners of the field. A pleasure to read."—Mario Livio, Senior Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute, and author of The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved

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The Life and Death of Planet Earth

How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World

Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee Holt Paperbacks

"A fascinating glimpse of the possible ends of the world examined through the emerging science of astrobiology."—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	Stars A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press Herbert S. Zim, Ph.D., Sc.D. and Robert H. Baker, Ph.D., D.Sc., Revised and Updated by Mark R. Chartrand, Ph.D.; Illustrated by James Gordon Irving Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age Matthew Brzezinski Holt Paperbacks “In his exuberant narrative of the superpower space race . . . [Brzezinski] tells the story of American and Soviet decisions with remarkable dramatic—even...

Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	Planets A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press Mark R. Chartrand, Ph.D.; Illustrated by Ron Miller Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Carrying the Fire An Astronaut's Journeys Michael Collins; Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing...

Hardcover : $10.00 Buy	Stonehenge Wooden Books Robin Heath Walker & Company Once part of a large culture of stone circles, Stonehenge—built around 3000 B.C. and developed over the next 1,500 years—is the most famous. The remains of a...

Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Sun, Moon and Earth Wooden Books Robin Heath Walker & Company Every organism on Earth responds to four major cycles: the solar and lunar day, the synodic month and the year. We all dance to these primary rhythms. This...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Astro Turf The Private Life of Rocket Science M.G. Lord Walker & Company "Astro Turf works well as a brief, clear history of a field and the lab that embodied it. It works even better as a piece of cultural criticism. [It] works best of all, though, as a moving memoir of the difficult love between a daughter and father."—*The New York Times Book Review*

Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Sacred Number The Secret Quality of Quantities Wooden Books Miranda Lundy Walker & Company Numbers permeate every aspect of our lives; very little happens without a basic ability to manipulate the simple whole numbers we all take for granted....

Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	A Little Book of Coincidence Wooden Books John Martineau Walker & Company A most unusual guide to the solar system, A Little Book of Coincidence suggests that there may be fundamental relationships between space, time, and life that...

Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	The Sky Observer's Guide A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press R. Newton Mayall, Margaret Mayall, and Jerome Wyckoff; Paintings and Diagrams by John Polgreen Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

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Mapping Mars

Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World

Oliver Morton Picador

"There is much to recommend this book. The author has an encyclopedic grasp of the development of major discoveries of mars science, and he summaries them in a very understandable way . . . And, I must confess, I am frankly envious of his engaging prose. This book will delight anyone interested in the exploration of the planet next door."—American Scientist

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Hardcover : $23.95 Buy	Circumference Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe Nicholas Nicastro St. Martin's Press How do you measure the size of the planet you’re standing on? “Circumference" is the story of what happened when one man asked himself that very question....

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	An Intimate Look at the Night Sky Chet Raymo Walker & Company 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...

Hardcover : $22.95 Buy	Walking Zero Discovering Cosmic Space and Time Along the Prime Meridian Chet Raymo Walker & Company Noted science writer Chet Raymo explores how we found our place in space and time, and what it has meant to humankind. In Walking Zero, Chet Raymo uses the...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Two Sides of the Moon Our Story of the Cold War Space Race David Scott and Alexei Leonov; Foreword by Neil Armstrong, Introduction by Tom Hanks St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books “An extraordinary book.” ---Arthur C. Clarke Space was one of the most fiercely fought battlegrounds of the Cold War, the Moon its ultimate beachhead. ...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	The Illustrated Longitude The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Dava Sobel; William J.H. Andrewes Walker & Company A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude. The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the...

Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars Wooden Books Geoff Stray Walker & Company The only small, popular book on the important subject of ancient calendars. The study of heavenly cycles is common to most ancient cultures. The ancient...

Hardcover : $10.00 Buy	Compact Cosmos A Journey Through Space and Time Wooden Books Matt Tweed Walker & Company Exploring the macrocosm from colossal galactic superclusters to quiet backwater planets, Matt Tweed offers a primer on the cosmos for anyone fascinated by the...

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The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe Picador

From "America’s nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of...

National Book Awards - Winner - General Nonfiction (Hardcover)

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