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Coloring the Universe: An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space by Travis Rector 9781602232730
£61.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602232730Author Travis RectorFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams)... -
The Fabric of the Heavens by Stephen E. Toulmin 9780226808482
RRP: £23.00£22.13Conceived as three companion volumes that form an introduction to the central ideas of the modern natural sciences, these books--intelligent, informative, and accessible--are an excellent source for those who have no technical knowledge of the subject... -
Galileo: A Very Short Introduction by Stillman Drake
RRP: £8.99£6.45In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church, but by the hostility of contemporary philosophers. Galileo's... -
Yearbook of Astronomy 2022 by Brian Jones
RRP: £20.00£14.69The Yearbook of Astronomy 2022 is the Diamond Jubilee edition of this iconic publication, the annual appearance of which has been eagerly anticipated by astronomers, both amateur and professional, ever since this invaluable book first appeared in 1962... -
First on the Moon: The Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Experience by Rod Pyle 9781454931973 [USED COPY]
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First on the Moon: The Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Experience by Rod Pyle
RRP: £25.00£17.38In honor of the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Apollo 11 mission, this lavishly illustrated book--featuring stunning photographs and many rarely seen images and documents--tells the incredible story of the first men on the Moon. Acclaimed... -
Discover the Night Sky through Binoculars: A systematic guide to Binocular Astronomy by Stephen Tonkin Fras 9781916485006
RRP: £13.15£11.71Apologies 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)... -
Yearbook of Astronomy 2022 by Brian Jones 9781526790057 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson 9780393350364
RRP: £12.99£11.46In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. It is a wonder Pluto has any fans, yet during the mounting debate over Pluto's status, people rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog. Pluto is entrenched in the... -
Total Solar Eclipse of 1999 August 11 by National Aeronautics and Administration 9781505665314
RRP: £19.99£17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505665314Author National Aeronautics and AdministrationFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher... -
Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind by Joseph Silk
RRP: £29.95£18.50A scientist's inspiring vision of our return to the Moon as humanity's next thrilling step in space explorationJust over half a century since Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the lunar surface, a new space race to the Moon is well underway and... -
The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began by S. Clark
£17.36In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph systems crashed, machines burst into flames, and electric... -
Seven Sisters of the Pleiades: Stories from Around the World by Munya Andrews
RRP: £19.95£12.84Around the world, people looked to the skies to tell them when to sow and harvest their crops, and when the rains would come. The 'sailing stars' have guided explorers and endless migrations of people. In Old Europe, among the Ainu of Japan and in... -
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque
RRP: £10.99£7.12SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2020 To be an astronomer is to journey to some of the most inaccessible parts of the globe, braving... -
Comparative Politics by Daniele Caramani 9780192846051
RRP: £42.99£41.40With 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... -
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones
£26.34In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an ancient Greek gear-driven device, now known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Since its discovery, scholars relying on direct... -
The NexStar User's Guide II: For the LCM, SLT, SE, CPC, SkyProdigy, and Astro Fi by Michael Swanson 9783319649320
RRP: £44.99£28.58As with the first edition, this book is a thorough reference for the telescope models covered. The original NexStar User's Guide has remained very popular among the NexStar owner community. This updated edition has been completely rewritten to cover all... -
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission by Jim Bell
RRP: £21.99£14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101983898Author Jim BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261g -
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way by John Edward Huth
£18.02Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic... -
101 Facts You Didn't Know About Space by Mark Thompson 9781526744579 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.96Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
101 Facts You Didn't Know About Space by Mark Thompson 9781526744579
RRP: £25.00£18.02Did you know a compost heap generates as much energy as the Sun? Or that dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate? Maybe you have not been into space but if you have then you will know that astronauts have feet as soft as babies! 101 Space Facts You... -
How To Live On Mars by Robert Zubrin
RRP: £14.92£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307407184Author Robert ZubrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Saturn by William Sheehan
RRP: £25.00£18.02Saturn is the showcase of the Solar System. It may not be the largest of the planets, nor the smallest, nor even the only planet with rings. But it is among the most stunningly beautiful objects in the sky, and is always breathtaking when seen in a... -
Unveiling Galaxies: The Role of Images in Astronomical Discovery by Jean-Rene Roy 9781108417013
RRP: £42.99£37.12Galaxies are known as the building blocks of the universe, but arriving at this understanding has been a thousand-year odyssey. This journey is told through the lens of the evolving use of images as investigative tools. Initial chapters explore how early... -
Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle by Colin Burgess 9780387360539
RRP: £54.99£36.57Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into... -
Mars by Stephen James O'Meara
RRP: £25.00£18.02Mars is a small world with a big reputation. This mysterious planet - with volcanoes that dwarf Mount Everest, a canyon system that would stretch fully across the USA and curious landscapes that may support life - has fascinated us for centuries. In... -
Soviets in Space: Russia's Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier by Colin Burgess 9781789146325
RRP: £25.00£17.62A deeply researched, beautifully illustrated chronology of the Soviet Union's extraordinary success in the pioneering years of space exploration.Book InformationISBN 9781789146325Author Colin BurgessFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Reaktion... -
Galileo by John L. Heilbron 9780199655984
RRP: £16.99£12.68Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope -... -
Moon Power: Empowerment through cyclical living by Merilyn Keskula
RRP: £10.99£7.40The Moon is not just a static piece of cosmic matter in our night sky, but a dynamic living being. Throughout her journey around the Earth which takes about 29.5 days she shows us her different faces, growing from a silver sliver in the sky to an... -
Dreams Of A Final Theory: The Search for The Fundamental Laws of Nature by Steven Weinberg
RRP: £15.99£11.61An understanding of nature's final laws may be within our grasp - a way of explaining forces and symmetries and articles that does not require further explanation. 'This starting point, to which all explanations can be traced, is what I mean by a final... -
The World at Night by Babak Tafreshi
RRP: £20.00£13.35See the full beauty of our night sky revealed as never before in over 200 photographs from around the world in this stunning and giftable title. Bringing together the images of over 40 photographers across 25 countries, be astounded by the lights of the... -
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall
RRP: £12.99£9.09The most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely science book you'll ever read, from the world-renowned, multi-award-winning, superstar physicist Lisa Randal.66 million years ago, a ten-mile-wide object from outer space hurtled into the Earth at incredible... -
The Moon: A celebration of our celestial neighbour by Royal Observatory Greenwich
RRP: £20.00£11.93Marking the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's 'small step' this beautiful book from Royal Museums Greenwich explores people's fascination with our only natural satellite. Immerse yourself in contemporary essays and fascinating images wrapped in a... -
It's Not Rocket Science by Ben Miller
RRP: £10.99£7.40The Top Ten Bestseller Black holes. DNA. The Large Hadron Collider. Ever had that sneaking feeling that you are missing out on some truly spectacular science? You do? Well, fear not, for help is at hand. Ben Miller was working on his Physics PhD at... -
Keplerian Ellipses (Second Edition): A student guide to the physics of the gravitational two-body problem by Bruce Cameron Reed 9780750356060
£71.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750356060Author Bruce Cameron ReedFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics... -
Where the Universe Came From: How Einstein s relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos by Scientist New
RRP: £10.99£7.40How did it all begin? Where is it all going?A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. His theory changed the way we think about... -
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall 9780099593560 [USED COPY]
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The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries: ...And Other Amazing Cosmic Facts by Jillian Scudder 9781785789267
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The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries: ...And Other Amazing Cosmic Facts by Jillian Scudder 9781785789267 [USED COPY]
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Universe by Roger Freedman
£77.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319248642Author Roger FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co LtdPublisher Macmillan Learning