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How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind - Revised and Expanded Edition by Charles H. Langmuir 9780691140063
RRP: $58.05$46.85Since its first publication more than twenty-five years ago, How to Build a Habitable Planet has established a legendary reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang... -
The Wild Handbook: Seasonal activities to help you reconnect with nature by Emily Thomas
RRP: $16.76$11.26A beautiful, illustrated book full of ideas to get you back in touch with nature.Spending time in nature is scientifically proven to be good for us - the benefits are endless and it has the power to make us feel better both physically and emotionally... -
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
RRP: $16.76$11.73INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe, from the 'most popular scientist in the world''Don't fear change. Don't fear failure. The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you've got... -
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... -
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... -
Discover the Night Sky through Binoculars: A systematic guide to Binocular Astronomy by Stephen Tonkin Fras 9781916485006
RRP: $16.96$14.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916485006Author Stephen Tonkin FrasFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Binocularsky PublishingPublisher Binocularsky PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Astronomy For Dummies: Book + Chapter Quizzes Online Stephen P. Maran 9781394163076
RRP: $24.50$16.45Embark on your own personal journey into the night sky. Stardate: Today! Ever catch yourself staring up at the night sky and wondering just what the heck is out there? While no one book can answer all your questions, Astronomy For Dummies will take you... -
Aurora: In Search of the Northern Lights by Melanie Windridge
RRP: $16.76$10.94The beautiful aurorae, or northern lights, are the stuff of legends. The ancient stories of the Sami people warn that if you mock the lights they will seize you, and their mythical appeal continues to capture the hearts and imagination of people across... -
The Comet Sweeper (Icon Science): Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition Claire Brock 9781785781667
RRP: $11.60$8.32Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal.Soon making scientific discoveries in her own... -
What's the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life by Ian Stewart
RRP: $36.12$23.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541699489Author Ian StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 152mm * 36mm -
The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars by Geoff Stray 9781904263609
RRP: $7.73$5.30Ever since humans first began to count, people have clocked days, moons and years, tried to make sense of them in terms of each other, and formed calendars to order their lives. In an amazing leap, the ancient Maya managed to synchronize all the visible... -
An Introduction to Active Galactic Nuclei by Bradley M. Peterson 9780521479110
RRP: $73.52$61.79How can we test if a supermassive black hole lies at the heart of every active galactic nucleus? What are LINERS, BL Lacs, N galaxies, broad-line radio galaxies and radio-quiet quasars and how do they compare? This timely textbook answers these questions... -
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf
RRP: $14.18$10.02On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.United by this momentous occasion, scientists from around the globe came... -
Boom!: The Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, and Earthly Mayhem that Shook our Universe by Bob Berman
RRP: $12.89$9.17Looking at the night sky, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's all quiet up there in space. But you'd be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding: galaxies explode, cosmic debris hurtles through the heavens and our own Milky Way is on a collision... -
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... -
Black Holes by Jean-Pierre Luminet 9780521409063
RRP: $34.82$29.41Black holes are undoubtedly one of the most fascinating discoveries of modern astronomy, and their description one of the most daring intellectual feats of modern times. They have already become legendary, forming the basis of many myths, fantasies and... -
The Universe by Lonely Planet
RRP: $29.66$21.52Let Lonely Planet take you further than ever before with the world's first and only travel guide to the Universe. Developed with the latest data from NASA, we take you from our home on Earth and out into the far reaches of the solar system, then into our... -
Chasing the Moon: The Story of the Space Race - from Arthur C. Clarke to the Apollo landings by Robert Stone 9780008307875 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80$3.42In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a... -
Chasing the Moon: The Story of the Space Race - from Arthur C. Clarke to the Apollo landings by Robert Stone
RRP: $25.80$15.54In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a... -
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? ... -
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
RRP: $19.34$15.04At the beginning of the 21st century, physics is being driven to very unfamiliar territory - the domain of the incredibly small and the incredibly heavy. The new world is a world in which both quantum mechanics and gravity are equally important. But... -
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 Art of Urban Astronomy: A Guide to Stargazing Wherever You Are by Abigail Beall
RRP: $16.76$9.69Did you know that stars are seasonal? That Orion is one of the brightest constellations? That a single day on Venus is longer than an entire year on Venus? Space has captivated mankind since the beginning of time. Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong became... -
Ancient Skies: Constellation Mythology of the Greeks David Weston Marshall 9781682682111
RRP: $25.79$22.41Tales of the forty-eight classical constellations have captured the human imagination from ancient times to the present. Compiled from literature spanning from Homer to Claudius Ptolemy, with illustrations and star charts reconstructed from ancient... -
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 Art Of Timing: The Application of Lunar Cycles in Daily Life Johanna Paungger 9780852073346
RRP: $21.92$15.84ABOUT THIS BOOK....The success of any plan depends not only on the availability of the necessary skills and resources, but also very decisively, on the timing. In former times people gathered knowledge of axioms such as this by direct observation. They... -
The Aliens Are Coming!: The Exciting and Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe by Ben Miller
RRP: $14.18$3.60Discover the fascinating and cutting-edge science behind the greatest question of all: is there life beyond Earth? For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe. In the last few years, scientists have... -
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth Avi Loeb 9781529304824
RRP: $25.80$17.22'An astronomical Sherlock Holmes' WASHINGTON POST'Visionary' STEPHEN GREENBLATT'Compelling . . . The book is not so much a claim for one object as an argument for a more open-minded approach to science - a combination of humility and wonder' NEW... -
The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars by Christopher Cokinos 9781585428328
RRP: $20.63$18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585428328Author Christopher CokinosFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g -
50 Things to See in the Sky by Sarah Barker
RRP: $16.76$10.94A beautifully presented, practical gift guide to 50 sights in the skies above us. Explained with fascinating, easy-to-understand commentary from astrophysicist and science communicator, Sarah Barker, and illustrated... -
The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars by Jo Marchant 9781786894021
RRP: $21.92$14.94For most of human history, we have led not just an earthly existence but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily lives. Our innate relationship with the stars shaped who we are - our religious beliefs, power structures, scientific... -
Comparative Politics by Daniele Caramani 9780192846051
RRP: $55.46$53.41With unparalleled empirical material, this is the most comprehensive introduction to comparative politics written by the leading experts in the field who bring together a diverse and informed international perspective on comparative politics. Six new... -
Lost Worlds on Mars by Dylan Clearfield 9780930472214
RRP: $16.63$11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930472214Author Dylan ClearfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint G. Stempien Publishing CompanyPublisher G. Stempien Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Planets: A Very Short Introduction by David A. Rothery
RRP: $11.60$8.32This Very Short Introduction looks deep into space and describes the worlds that make up our Solar System: terrestrial planets, giant planets, dwarf planets and various other objects such as satellites (moons), asteroids and Trans-Neptunian objects. It... -
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything by New Scientist
RRP: $16.76$6.14Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking.When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been... -
Space from Zeno to Einstein: Classic Readings with a Contemporary Commentary by Nick Huggett
RRP: $49.02$46.48Learning through original texts can be a powerful heuristic tool. This book collects a dozen classic readings that are generally accepted as the most significant contributions to the philosophy of space. The readings have been selected both on the basis... -
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... -
Edwin Hubble, The Discoverer of the Big Bang Universe by Alexander S. Sharov 9780521416177
RRP: $116.09$99.45This book is the first complete account of the scientific life and work of Edwin Hubble, whose discoveries firmly established the United States as the leading nation in observational astronomy. One of the outstanding astronomers of the twentieth century,... -
The Physics of Stars A. C. Phillips (The University of Manchester) 9780471987987
RRP: $54.12$47.38The Physics of Stars, Second Edition, is a concise introduction to the properties of stellar interiors and consequently the structure and evolution of stars. Strongly emphasising the basic physics, simple and uncomplicated theoretical models are used to... -
Rediscovering the Integral Cosmos: Physics, Metaphysics, and Vertical Causality by Jean Borella 9781621384076
RRP: $20.64$19.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621384076Author Jean BorellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...