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The Constellation Observing Atlas by Grant Privett 9781461476474
£29.58Designed for anyone who wishes to learn the constellations or observe the best and brightest deep sky objects and double stars, this book contains an alphabetical list of constellations complete with star maps, historical background, and highlights of... -
The Hatfield Lunar Atlas: Digitally Re-Mastered Edition by Anthony Cook 9781461454984
RRP: £54.99£46.06"The Hatfield Lunar Atlas" has become an amateur lunar observer's bible since it was first published in 1968. A major update of the atlas was made in 1998, using the same wonderful photographs that Commander Henry Hatfield made with his... -
The Moon Book by Layne Demarin 9781429679428
RRP: £6.99£4.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429679428Author Layne DemarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 3g -
Space Discoveries by Tamra Orr 9781543526202
RRP: £9.99£6.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543526202Author Tamra OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 113g -
Falling Sky: The Science And History Of Meteorites And Why We Should Learn To Love Them by Ted Nield 9780762778287
RRP: £18.99£16.76Did an enormous collision in the Asteroid Belt, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter, bombard Earth with meteorites 470 million years ago? Astonishing new research suggests it did, and a revolutionary theory is emerging that this bombardment... -
Observar Las Estrellas: Una Guía Completa de Las 88 Constelaciones by Sara Gillingham 9788416407859
RRP: £39.95£26.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788416407859Author Sara GillinghamFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Cinco TintasPublisher Cinco TintasWeight(grams) 930g -
From Atoms to Higgs Bosons: Voyages in Quasi-Spacetime by Chary Rangacharyulu 9789814800242
RRP: £76.99£67.05The announcement in 2012 that the Higgs boson had been discovered was understood as a watershed moment for the Standard Model of particle physics. It was deemed a triumphant event in the reductionist quest that had begun centuries ago with the ancient... -
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth General Assembly Honolulu 2015: Transactions of the International Astronomical Union XXIXB by Piero Benvenuti 9781108481694
RRP: £109.00£98.25These Transactions provide a record of the organisational and administrative activities of the IAU XXIX General Assembly which took place in Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA, in August 2015. They report and record all of the essential decisions taken by the... -
Under One Sky: The IAU Centenary Symposium (IAU S349) by Christiaan Sterken 9781108471596
RRP: £109.00£98.85The IAU Centenary Symposium was held at its General Assembly in Vienna in 2018. It starts with plenary lectures, by Malcolm Longair on 100 years of astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology, and by Catherine Cesarsky, who reflects on a century of IAU history... -
Multiwavelength AGN Surveys and Studies (IAU S304) by Areg M. Mickaelian 9781107045248
RRP: £68.99£62.06Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most interesting astrophysical objects in the Universe. IAU Symposium 304, dedicated to marking the centenary of B. E. Markarian's birth, addresses the most important questions in this area: understanding the... -
Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems (IAU S299) by Mark Booth 9781107045200
RRP: £51.99£47.13Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in our understanding of planetary systems. Initially, new exoplanets were discovered through the effects they have on their parent stars - whether through radial velocity, transits or microlensing methods - but... -
Planetary Rings: A Post-Equinox View by Larry W. Esposito 9781107028821
RRP: £110.00£99.14Fully updated and expanded, this new edition presents a cutting-edge summary of planetary rings, including results from Cassini's Saturn System, Equinox and Solstice missions, and the New Horizons flyby of Jupiter. The book introduces basic physical... -
Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (IAU S278): Building Bridges between Cultures by Clive L. N. Ruggles 9781107019782
RRP: £73.00£66.37IAU Symposium 278, the ninth of the 'Oxford' conferences on cultural astronomy, presents a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives on a set of problems that continue to raise exciting and challenging new research questions and promote vigorous debate... -
Asteroids: New Observations, New Models (IAU S318) by Steven R. Chesley 9781107138254
RRP: £80.99£73.44Asteroids are the small, usually rocky, bodies that reside primarily in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. Individually, and as a population, they carry the signatures of the evolutionary processes that gave birth to the Solar System and shaped our... -
Formation, Detection, and Characterization of Extrasolar Habitable Planets (IAU S293) by Nader Haghighipour 9781107033825
RRP: £83.00£75.23This discovery of several Earth-like planets within the habitable zones of their host stars has triggered extensive research on the formation, dynamical evolution, interior dynamics, and atmospheric characteristics of extrasolar habitable planets. IAU... -
An Introduction to Optical Stellar Interferometry by Antoine Labeyrie 9780521828727
RRP: £90.99£82.30During the last two decades, optical stellar interferometry has become an important tool in astronomical investigations requiring spatial resolution well beyond that of traditional telescopes. This book, first published in 2006, was the first to be... -
Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System by Paul Clancy 9780521824507
RRP: £55.99£45.86How did life begin on Earth? Is it confined to our planet? Will humans one day be able to travel long distances in space in search of other life forms? Written by three experts in the space arena, Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System aims to... -
Asteroid Rendezvous: NEAR Shoemaker's Adventures at Eros by Jim Bell 9780521813600
RRP: £63.99£52.20The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) was the first mission to orbit and eventually land on an asteroid. The mission was a phenomenal success, returning hundreds of thousands of images, spectra, and other measurements about the large near-Earth... -
Astronomical Spectrographs and their History by John Hearnshaw 9780521882576
RRP: £125.00£113.32Astronomical spectrographs analyse light emitted by the Sun, stars, galaxies and other objects in the Universe, and have been used in astronomy since the early nineteenth century. This book provides a comprehensive account of spectrographs from an... -
Dynamics of Populations of Planetary Systems (IAU C197) by Zoran Knezevic 9780521852036
RRP: £69.00£62.67Recent advances in computational power are now enabling scientists to consider problems of population dynamics at an advanced level. The small bodies of our solar system, the planets around other stars, dust belts, space debris, etc., need to be... -
Icy Bodies of the Solar System (IAU S263) by Julio A. Fernandez 9780521764889
RRP: £73.00£66.37IAU Symposium 263 provides a state-of-the-art review of icy bodies in the Solar System, a topic crucial to understanding processes involved in the Solar System's formation, the consequences for water on planets, and ultimately, the habitable zones around... -
Children of the Stars: Our Origin, Evolution and Destiny by Daniel R. Altschuler 9780521812122
RRP: £55.99£47.91Are we alone in the Universe? What is our place in it? How did we get here? We have long searched for the answers to questions such as these, and scientists are beginning to find some of the answers. In this beautifully illustrated book, Daniel... -
Comet Hale-Bopp: Find and Enjoy the Great Comet by Robert Burnham 9780521586368
RRP: £26.99£21.83The brightest comet in 20 years is about to make its appearance. Discovered 18 months ago, Comet Hale-Bopp has grown steadily larger and brighter as it approaches the Sun and Earth. It will be numbered among the great comets of our lifetime. Comet... -
Protoplanetary Dust: Astrophysical and Cosmochemical Perspectives by Daniel Apai 9780521517720
RRP: £78.99£71.67Planet formation studies uniquely benefit from three disciplines: astronomical observations of extrasolar planet-forming disks, analysis of material from the early Solar System, and laboratory astrophysics experiments. Pre-planetary solids, fine dust,... -
Images of the Universe by Carole Stott 9780521424196
£47.32Images of the Universe is a special collection of essays written to celebrate astronomy and the centenary of the British Astronomical Association. Colin Ronan opens the book with a fascinating account of the developments over the last hundred years. For... -
A Visitor's Guide to the Kitt Peak Observatories by Leslie Sage 9780521006521
RRP: £18.99£15.65The Kitt Peak National Observatory is located in the Quinlan Mountains, southwest of Tucson, Arizona. For more than 40 years, astronomers have used the telescopes here to make many remarkable discoveries about the Universe. Today, Kitt Peak is the most... -
Practical Amateur Astronomy 2 Volume Paperback Set by Michael A. Covington 9780521524209
RRP: £83.99£69.47Together, this two volume set provides the amateur astronomer with all the information they require in order to set up their telescope and embark upon an exciting exploration of the night sky. Complete with trouble-shooting advice, practical tips for... -
The Multi-Messenger Astrophysics of the Galactic Centre (IAU S322) by Roland M. Crocker 9781107169890
RRP: £88.99£80.53The Galactic Centre represents a unique and extreme environment in the Galaxy. It hosts the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, its most concentrated dense gas reservoir and its most extreme star-formation environment. The Galactic Centre is therefore... -
The New Moon: Water, Exploration, and Future Habitation by Arlin Crotts 9780521762243
RRP: £33.99£30.26Explore Earth's closest neighbor, the Moon, in this fascinating and timely book and discover what we should expect from this seemingly familiar but strange, new frontier. What startling discoveries are being uncovered on the Moon? What will these tell us... -
A Giant Step: From Milli- to Micro- Arcsecond Astrometry (IAU S248) by Wenjing Jin 9780521874700
RRP: £81.00£74.06The Proceedings of IAU S248 reflect the state-of-the-art in the field of astrometry, summarizing the scientific achievements at the tenth anniversary of the Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogue release. It shows the latest achievements in ground-based... -
The Southern Sky Guide by David Ellyard 9780521714051
RRP: £25.00£20.30Both novice and advanced skywatchers will value this comprehensive and easy-to-use guide to the brilliant and ever-changing sights of the southern sky by night. Readers are introduced to the many and varied objects in the sky and their movements and... -
Origins and Evolution of Life: An Astrobiological Perspective by Muriel Gargaud 9780521761314
RRP: £98.99£89.98Devoted to exploring questions about the origin and evolution of life in our Universe, this highly interdisciplinary book brings together a broad array of scientists. Thirty chapters assembled in eight major sections convey the knowledge accumulated and... -
Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe by Alan W. Hirshfeld 9781934137789
RRP: £14.99£14.08Julia Ward Howe Award Finalist NBC News "Top Science and Tech Books of the Year" selection Scientific American/FSG "Favorite Science Books of the Year" selection Nature.com "Top Reads of the Year" selection Kirkus Reviews "Best Books of the Year"... -
Atlas of the Skies by Giunti Editorial Group
£15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844060115Author Giunti Editorial GroupFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint TAJ Books LtdPublisher TAJ Books Ltd -
What's Hidden Inside Planets? by Sabine Stanley 9781421448169
RRP: £14.00£11.12A guided journey through the inner workings of Earth, the cloaked mysteries of other planets in our solar system, and beyond.Extreme heat. Extreme cold. Extreme pressure. Toxic gases. Scorching magma flows, and ice volcanoes. Interior tides. Asteroids... -
Things That Go Bump in the Universe: How Astronomers Decode Cosmic Chaos by C. Renée James 9781421446936
RRP: £25.00£19.67Experience the drama of the explosive cosmos and the astonishing discoveries being made about the universe's wildest phenomena.The violent birth of the universe was only the first bang of a very bumpy ride. This unfathomably cacophonous beginning has... -
Totality: Eclipses of the Sun by Mark Littmann
£34.91A total eclipse of the Sun is the most awesome sight in the heavens. Totality: Eclipses of the Sun takes you to eclipses of the past, present, and future, and lets you see - and feel - why people travel to the ends of the Earth to observe them. ... -
Questions About Space and Beyond by Stephanie Bearce
RRP: £31.32£17.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496695680Author Stephanie BearceFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press -
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Brian Cox
RRP: £32.00£18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062936691Author Brian CoxFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Custom HousePublisher Custom HouseWeight(grams) 644g -
Eclipse Chasers by Toner Stevenson
RRP: £27.95£24.02Witnessing a total solar eclipse is a wondrous and unforgettable event! Eclipse Chasers is a guide to past and future Australian total solar eclipses, exploring historical and cultural knowledge, as well as featuring five upcoming eclipses that will be...