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Saturn by William Sheehan
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.69Saturn 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... -
Supernova by Or Graur
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543149Author Or GraurFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
A Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.'A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with... -
Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA by Amy Shira Teitel
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.23The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA. NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum. It... -
NASA Graphics Standards Manual Remastered Edition by Tony Darnell 9781680920789
Booksplease Price: $61.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680920789Author Tony DarnellFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Paul A. DarnellPublisher Paul A. DarnellWeight(grams) 671g -
The Sound of the Cosmos: Gravitational Waves and the Birth of Multi-Messenger Astronomy by Mario Diaz
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $69.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544948Author Mario DiazFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Visual Astronomy with a Small Telescope Sean G. Ryan 9781032812892
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $44.46This is a practical guide to using a small astronomical telescope of a size that corresponds to most "first" telescopes - around 75-150 mm, i.e. 3-6 inches, in diameter.Visual Astronomy with a Small Telescope is for people who are sufficiently interested... -
The Cosmos Explained: A history of the universe from its beginning to today and beyond Charles Liu 9780711252745
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $28.98The Cosmos Explained is an exciting and beautifully designed book that charts the life of our universe from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond. Starting with the moment of the Big Bang-at exactly one ten-millionth of a trillionth of a trillionth... -
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon by Charles Fishman 9781501106309
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.70The New York Times bestselling, "meticulously researched and absorbingly written" (The Washington Post) story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic Apollo 11 moon mission.President John F. Kennedy astonished the... -
How to Astronaut: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth by Terry Virts
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $31.54"There's something intriguing to be learned on practically every page... [How to Astronaut] captures the details of an extraordinary job and turns even the mundane aspects of space travel into something fascinating."--Publishers Weekly Ride shotgun on a... -
The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye by Matthew Bothwell 9780861541249
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.62From 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... -
Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space by Fred Scharmen
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.95Many societies have imagined going to live in space. What they want to do once they get up there - whether conquering the unknown, establishing space "colonies," privatising the moon's resources - reveals more than expected. In this fascinating radical... -
The Enchanted Moon: The Ultimate Book of Lunar Magic by Stacey DeMarco
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.17The ultimate book of authentic lunar ceremonies, spells, mythos and science, The Enchanted Moon will transform and inspire you. The alchemy of lunar science will show you how moon cycles work for magic, balance, health and self-realisation and about how... -
The Contact Paradox: Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Keith Cooper
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.23What will happen if (perhaps when) humanity makes contact with another civilisation on a different planet? In 1974 a message was beamed towards the stars by the giant Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, a brief blast of radio waves designed to alert... -
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak 9781250231345
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $27.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250231345Author Sarah ParcakFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougal -
The Little Book of Cosmology by Lyman Page 9780691195780
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.63The cutting-edge science that is taking the measure of the universeThe Little Book of Cosmology provides a breathtaking look at our universe on the grandest scales imaginable. Written by one of the world's leading experimental cosmologists, this short... -
The Smallest Lights In The Universe by Sara Seager
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.47In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace after losing her first husband to cancer, her unflagging search for an Earth-like exoplanet and her unexpected... -
Jupiter by William Sheehan
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.35Now available in paperback, this beautifully illustrated volume ranges across the entire history of Jupiter studies, from the naked-eye observations of the Babylonians and the Greeks, through the telescopic discoveries of Galileo and T.E.R. Phillips, to... -
SpaceX: Starship to Mars - The First 20 Years by Erik Seedhouse 9783030991807
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $42.82Learn about commercial spaceflight's most successful startup in this fully updated book, which follows the extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement that have placed SpaceX at the forefront of the launch industry and positioned it as the... -
The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality by Paul Halpern
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.11In Fall 1939, Richard Feynman, a brash and brilliant recent graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. The prim and proper Wheeler timed their interaction with a watch placed on the table. ... -
Why the Universe Exists: How particle physics unlocks the secrets of everything New Scientist 9781473629684
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.11As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons.If the recent discovery of the Higgs... -
Flight Zack Scott 9781472247872
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $44.52Flight is the story of humankind's most ambitious undertaking. From thousand-year-old flying machines and the trailblazing 'birdmen' who risked their lives to test them, to the Wright brothers' legendary first flight and the iconic spacecraft of the... -
Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut by Samantha Cristoforetti 9780241371381
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $42.59'An incredible odyssey' Financial Times'Today I woke up on Earth. And I will fall asleep in space'In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert, every city and every port. The most ordinary things --... -
Meteorite: The Stones From Outer Space That Made Our World by Tim Gregory
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.07Meteorite tells the fascinating story of the stones from outer space scattered across our planet. From the impact that finished off the dinosaurs to the dagger made of extraterrestrial iron found in Tutankhamun's tomb, this book is packed full of... -
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Space Flight by Julian Guthrie 9781784162375 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $4.81Afterword by Professor Stephen Hawking"Reads like a thriller - and reveals many secrets... one of the great entrepreneurial stories of our time" (Washington Post)From the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon, Peter Diamandis's... -
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Space Flight by Julian Guthrie
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.92Afterword by Professor Stephen Hawking"Reads like a thriller - and reveals many secrets... one of the great entrepreneurial stories of our time" (Washington Post)From the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon, Peter Diamandis's... -
Heroes of the Space Age: Incredible Stories of the Famous and Forgotten Men and Women Who Took Humanity to the Stars by Rod Pyle 9781633885240
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.02Featuring Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin! A NASA insider tells the exciting story of the people, both well-known and unrecognized, who were responsible for so many daring space missions. Award-winning science writer Rod Pyle... -
The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration by Colin Burgess 9781789144604
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.74The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the 20th century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery and exploration, as astronauts and cosmonauts were launched on space missions of increasing length, complexity and danger. ... -
Picturing the Space Shuttle: The Early Years by John Bisney 9781683402053
Booksplease Price: $82.24Rare views of the beginnings of a historic space programAfter the excitement of the first Moon landing, the U.S. space program took an ambitious new direction closer to home: NASA's Space Shuttle program promised frequent access to Earth orbit for... -
Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System by Natalie Starkey 9781472960405
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.08A tour of the Solar System's tallest, hottest, coldest and weirdest volcanoes - and a look inside what makes them erupt. The volcano - among the most familiar and perhaps the most terrifying of all geological phenomena. However, Earth isn't the only... -
Chasing the Moon: The Story of the Space Race - from Arthur C. Clarke to the Apollo landings by Robert Stone
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $25.39In 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... -
Meteorite: The Stones From Outer Space That Made Our World Tim Gregory 9781529327649
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $13.36Every rock has a story tell, and none more so than those which have fallen from the sky: meteorites. Originating in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, these rocky fragments offer clues not just to the earliest origins of the Solar System but... -
Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control by Paul Dye
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $34.76Offering a compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped lay the groundwork for the Space Age from the perspective of those tasked with making them happen, Shuttle, Houston explores the determined personalities, technological miracles,... -
The Alien Perspective: A New View of the Cosmos and Our Future by David Whitehouse
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $25.91'Often-complex ideas are explained with clarity and precision, but this is clearly a passion project for the author, and the book soars where he deploys more poetic language, as when musing on the deeper themes that arise from his central... -
Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me about Our Home Planet--And Our Mission to Protect It by Nicole Stott
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $34.76When NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott first saw the Earth from space, she was filled with awe. Our shared home was a brilliant blue marble, with a razor thin atmosphere protecting billions of people, including everyone she loved. She realized that we are all... -
NASA's Voyager Missions: Exploring the Outer Solar System and Beyond by Ben Evans
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $58.362022 marks the 45th anniversary of the Voyager probe launches. Launched into space in 1977, these twin probes explored the farthest reaches of the Solar System before venturing on a one-way journey beyond, all the while testing the bounds of science,... -
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth by Kate Greene 9781785787775
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.60Featured in New Scientist's Best Books of 2021'Filled with wonderment and awe ... Greene's eloquent memoir is equal parts escape and comfort.' Publishers WeeklyA powerful reflection on life in isolation, in pursuit of the dream of Mars.In 2013 Kate... -
Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe by Charles S. Cockell
RRP: $48.20Booksplease Price: $41.31Insightful, good-humored essays on the possibilities of alien life and the uses of space exploration, based on an astrobiologist's everyday conversations with his fellow humans-taxi drivers, to be precise.If you've ever sat in the back seat of a taxi,... -
The Universe Next Door: A Journey Through 55 Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures by New Scientist 9781473628618 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.47A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures.It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just one of... -
The Universe Next Door: A Journey Through 55 Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures New Scientist 9781473628618
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.81A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures.It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just one of...