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2022 Guide to the Night Sky: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Britain and Ireland by Storm Dunlop
RRP: $15.42$10.36The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. "This is a great guide to the night sky at a great price"Astronomy Now "A handy and straightforward guide ... attractive little booklet" British Astronomical Association's... -
Constellation Myths: with Aratus's Phaenomena by Eratosthenes
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.' The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arranged the stars into patterns for that purpose. In... -
NASA Moon Missions Operations Manual: 1969-1972 (Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17) by David Baker
RRP: $29.66$22.29Apollo 17 was the last of six Moon landings carrying astronauts to different places on the lunar surface. The last three flights were greatly extended in duration, providing opportunity for three full working days on the surface. Each carried a Lunar... -
The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye by Matthew Bothwell
RRP: $14.18$9.03From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic 'prehistory', Bothwell shows us the Universe as we've never seen it before - literally. Since the dawn of our species, people all over the world have gazed in awe at the... -
The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter by Govert Schilling
RRP: $32.19$25.65An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matter-and shows how that search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit.When you train a telescope on outer space, you can see luminous galaxies, nebulae,... -
Constellations: The Story of Space Told Through the 88 Known Star Patterns in the Night Sky by Govert Schilling
RRP: $32.25$22.42In CONSTELLATIONS, award-winning astronomy writer Govert Schilling takes us on an unprecedented visual tour of all 88 constellations in our night sky. Much more than just a stargazer's guide, CONSTELLATIONS is complete history of astronomy as told by... -
50 Things To See With A Small Telescope by John A Read
RRP: $12.84$10.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615826714Author John A ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint John a ReadPublisher John a ReadWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm -
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics: Seco: Second Edition by Roger Bate 9780486497044
RRP: $27.08$17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486497044Author Roger BateFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 120gDimensions(mm)... -
The Sun: Beginner’s guide to our local star by Dr. Ryan French
RRP: $11.60$7.77The Sun is incredibly dynamic and shrouded in mystery, despite its apparent unchanging appearance in the daytime sky. In this guide, Dr. Ryan French explores history, science and modern observations to uncover the mysteries of the Sun. From... -
The Little Book of Exoplanets by Joshua N. Winn
RRP: $24.50$18.16A concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveriesFor centuries, people have speculated about the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars, but only since the 1990s has technology... -
The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet by Justin B. Hollander
RRP: $36.11$33.09Hundreds of novels, films, and TV shows have speculated about what it would be like for us Earthlings to build cities on Mars. To make it a reality, however, these dreamers are in sore need of additional conceptual tools in their belt-particularly, a... -
The Astronaut Selection Test Book: Do You Have What it Takes for Space? by Tim Peake
RRP: $19.34$14.13_________________________*The OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD puzzle book, as featured in the Times, Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Breakfast, and a Guardian Book of the Year pick. Have YOU got what it takes to be an astronaut?This book will help readers of... -
The Backyard Astronomer's Guide by Terence Dickinson
RRP: $51.60$34.91The touchstone for contemporary stargazers. This classic, groundbreaking guide has been the go-to field guide for both beginning and experienced amateur astronomers for nearly 30 years. The fourth edition brings Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer's... -
Outer Space: 100 Poems by Midge Goldberg
RRP: $16.76$16.19Poets and astronomers often ask the same questions. Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Throughout human history, poetry has provided stories about what people observe in the sky. Stars, planets, comets, the moon, and space... -
Case Studies in Star Formation: A Molecular Astronomy Perspective by Duncan MacKay
$64.82Case Studies in Star Formation offers an overview of our current observational and theoretical understanding in the molecular astronomy of star formation. The book is divided into six sections: the first introduces an overview of star formation and the... -
Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe by John Hands
RRP: $21.92$15.57A Daily Telegraph and TLS Book of the Year 'An audacious tour of all that science can teach us' Edward O. Wilson Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began... -
What Shape Is Space?: A primer for the 21st century by Giles Sparrow
RRP: $16.76$11.09The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsWhat Shape is Space? is a question with surprisingly far-reaching implications for our understanding of the very nature of reality and our place within it. The concepts... -
Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide, Eighth Edition by Dinah L. Moche 9781620459904
RRP: $28.37$19.65Now with a full-color insert and thoroughly revised, this perennial bestseller is the most comprehensive and successful beginner's astronomy books in the market. "One of the best ways by which one can be introduced to the wonders of astronomy." -The... -
Lessons from the Masters: Current Concepts in Astronomical Image Processing by Robert Gendler 9781461478331
RRP: $51.59$45.94There are currently thousands of amateur astronomers around the world engaged in astrophotography at a sophisticated level. Their ranks far outnumber professional astronomers doing the same and their contributions both technically and artistically are... -
Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel
RRP: $16.76$10.94From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost... -
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
RRP: $15.47$10.51Back on the earth after three spaceflights, Chris Hadfield's captivating memoir An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth reveals extraordinary stories from his life as an astronaut, and shows how to make the impossible a reality. This edition contains a new... -
Phaenomena: Doppelmayr's Celestial Atlas by Giles Sparrow
RRP: $64.50$44.83A beautiful showcase of Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent Atlas Coelestis that deconstructs its intricately drawn plates and explores its influential ideas. Showcasing Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent 1742 map of the cosmos, Atlas Coelestis, this... -
Hubble's Universe: 2nd Ed; Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images by Terence Dickinson 9781770859975
RRP: $38.70$29.09The first edition of 'Hubble's Universe' displayed 300 pages of high-resolution celestial portraits selected by bestselling astronomy writer Terence Dickinson from the initial 22 years of the Hubble Space Telescope's exploration of distant galaxies. With... -
The Smallest Lights In The Universe by Sara Seager 9780008328276
RRP: $12.89$7.74Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology in 2020 'A stunningly original memoir ... her most human tale of love, loss and redemption is illuminated and given meaning by this backdrop. A beautiful and... -
The Infinite Monkey Cage - How to Build a Universe by Brian Cox
RRP: $16.76$10.94The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to... -
Vargic's Curious Cosmic Compendium: Space, the Universe and Everything Within It by Martin Vargic
RRP: $32.25$24.02Take a trip to outer space with this weird and wonderful guide to our universe, the perfect gift for both young and old Vargic's beautifully innovative designs will help to explain all of the bizarre and fascinating aspects of the cosmos; from the... -
Genesis of the Cosmos: The Ancient Science of Continous Creation by Paul A. LaViolette 9781591430346
RRP: $25.79$17.11Recent developments in theoretical physics, including systems theory and chaos theory, are challenging long-held mechanistic views of the universe. Many thinkers have speculated that the remnants of an ancient science survive today in mythology and... -
Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present by Margaret Greaves
RRP: $83.85$75.54Poetry and astronomy often travel together in the political sphere, from Milton's meeting with Galileo under house arrest to NASA's practice of launching poems into space. Anchored in the post-war period but drawing on a long history of poetry and... -
The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye by Matthew Bothwell 9780861541249
RRP: $24.50$17.56From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic 'prehistory', Bothwell shows us the Universe as we've never seen it before - literally. Since the dawn of our species, people all over the world have gazed in awe at the... -
Black Holes: The Reith Lectures by Stephen Hawking
RRP: $11.60$8.32"It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers."In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking delivered the BBC... -
2024 Guide to the Night Sky: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above North America by Storm Dunlop 9780008619626
RRP: $10.31$6.98The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. This is the ideal resource for beginners and experienced stargazers in the United States and Canada, and has been updated to include new and practical information covering events... -
Human Universe by Brian Cox
RRP: $32.25$23.26Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'Engaging, ambitious and creative' Guardian Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future? ... -
Concepts in Thermal Physics by Stephen J. Blundell 9780199562107
RRP: $47.07$45.73An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The... -
Moons of the Solar System, Revised Second Edition: Incorporating the Latest Discoveries in Our Solar System as well as Suspected Exomoons by Thomas Wm Hamilton 9781949483222
RRP: $18.47$14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949483222Author Thomas HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Strategic Book PublishingPublisher Strategic Book PublishingWeight(grams)... -
15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun by Lucie Green
RRP: $16.76$11.73110 times wider than Earth; 15 million degrees at its core; an atmosphere so huge that Earth is actually within it: come and meet the star of our solar systemLight takes eight minutes to reach Earth from the surface of the Sun. But its journey within the... -
Older Than The Stars by Karen Fox
RRP: $9.02$6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570917882Author Karen C. FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.Publisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox by Milan M. Cirkovic
RRP: $46.43$41.18The Great Silence explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question "Where is everybody?" In many respects, Fermi's paradox is the richest and the most challenging problem for... -
The Art of the Cosmos: Visions from the Frontier of Deep-Space Exploration by Jim Bell 9781454946083
RRP: $38.70$25.03Hundreds of deep space missions since the 1960s have captured stunning photographs of the cosmos. Many of these scientific images can also be classified as art. This book highlights more than 100 examples, revealing the splendor of our universe. This... -
Moon Journal: Astrological guidance, affirmations, rituals and journal exercises to help you reconnect with your own internal universe by Sandy Sitron
RRP: $19.34$14.13From soulful self-reflection to boisterous jubilation, let New York based astrologer Sandy Sitron show you how to harness the changing energies of the moon and start living the life you've always wanted.'Beautiful and powerful' -- ***** Reader... -
At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime by A. Roger Ekirch
RRP: $14.18$9.55A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime.'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES'A splendid book ... great entertainment' Sir Patrick Moore'A triumph of social history. Almost every...