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Philip's Planisphere (Latitude 51.5 North): For use in Britain and Ireland, Northern Europe, Northern USA and Canada by Philip's Maps
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.89The first thing that every stargazer needs - an hour-by-hour and night-by-night moveable map of the stars 'A really useful bit of kit...a map of the night sky for any time of the year' Mark Thompson, TV Astronomer on BBC Stargazing Live* Just turn... -
2025 Guide to the Night Sky: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Britain and Ireland Radmila Topalovic 9780008688165
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.01The 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." British Astronomical Association's 'Journal' "an ideal... -
Night Sky Almanac 2025: A stargazer’s guide Radmila Topalovic 9780008688134
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.83A beautiful gift for anyone interested in the night sky. Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this beautiful companion to the night sky from Astronomy experts Collins. With the aid of easy-to-understand... -
Children’s Guide to the Night Sky: 100 things to see in space Tom Kerss 9780008700331
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Explore the night sky with this fact-packed guide to astronomy for children aged 7+. From planets to meteor showers, stars to satellites, kids will learn how, where, and when to see 100 things in space using binoculars, a telescope, or just... -
Stargazing for Beginners: Explore the Wonders of the Night Sky by Will Gater
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.25Discover the wonders of the Universe with this complete introduction to observing and understanding the night sky. This practical guide explains and demystifies stargazing, teaching you to recognize different kinds of objects and showing you how they... -
Collins Stargazing: Beginners guide to astronomy by Royal Observatory Greenwich
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.83A brilliant introductory guide to exploring the night sky, from the astronomers of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Offering complete advice from the ground up, Stargazing is the perfect manual for beginners to astronomy - introducing the... -
Night Sky: Find Adventure! Have fun outdoors! Be a stargazer! (Ultimate Explorer Field Guides) by National Geographic Kids
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.01This fun, photo-filled, fact-packed night sky guide will encourage kids to stop and look up to spot stars and planets right from their own gardens. From Mars to meteor showers, the Big Dipper to satellites, kids will learn how, where, and when... -
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? Dr. Kelly Weinersmith 9780141993300
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to... -
Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation by Carl Sagan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.79* Spacecraft missions to nearby planets* The Library of ancient Alexandria* The human brain* Egyptian hieroglyphics* The origin of life* The death of the sun* The evolution of galaxies* The origins of matter, suns and worldsThe story of fifteen billion... -
Cloudspotting For Beginners by Gavin Pretor-Pinney 9780241632543
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.23An introduction to the wondrous world of clouds, by the internationally bestselling founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and a prize-winning children's book author and illustratorHave you ever watched a cloud being born?Clouds come in all manner of... -
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry 9781787334991
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.41**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**A story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends'Gorgeous... Ethereal' GUARDIAN'A book with cosmic reach' FINANCIAL TIMES'A romance worthy of Emily... -
Wonders of the Universe by Brian Cox
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.08Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our universe as we've never seen it before. 13.7 billion years old. 93 billion light years wide. It contains over 100 billion... -
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96A wonderful novel and perfect book club choice, The Right Stuff is a wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's early space programme.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY'What is it,' asks Tom Wolfe, 'that makes a man willing to sit... -
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.84On 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... -
The Peregrine: 50th Anniversary Edition: Afterword by Robert Macfarlane by J. A. Baker
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Reissue of J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane. J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing was first published in 1967. Greeted with acclaim, it... -
Stargazers' Almanac: A Monthly Guide to the Stars and Planets: 2025: 2025 by Bob Mizon 9781782508946
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.38Explore the night skies with this beautiful illustrated monthly guide to the stars and planets.This large-format almanac allows you to step outside and track the planets, locate the Milky Way, recognise the constellations of the zodiac and watch meteor... -
Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos by Michio Kaku
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96From the bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku's Parallel Worlds takes us to the frontiers of scientific knowledge to explain the extraordinary nature - and future - of our universe. Imagine a future where we are not alone -... -
Philip's Stargazing 2024 Month-by-Month Guide to the Night Sky Britain & Ireland by Nigel Henbest 9781849076517
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.49Philip's Stargazing is the perfect practical guide for both budding and experienced astronomers."If you buy just one guide...you won't do better than this." - BBC Sky at Night MagazineWhether you're a seasoned astronomer or just starting out, this handy... -
Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Collection 13 Royal Observatory Greenwich 9780008688110
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.54A stunning gift for admirers of astrophotography. From the number one Astronomy publisher, this book showcases the most spectacular space photography, taken from locations across the globe. Marvel at the wonders of the universe captured by the... -
Cosmos: Explore the Wonders of the Universe DK 9780241664308
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.14"Cosmos truly is a work that will captivate and inspire readers of all ages. There is something here for those at every level, from primary school students right through to astrophysicists." -- Katie Sawers, BBC Sky at NightAstonishing images bring every... -
Human Universe by Brian Cox 9780008125080
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.44Top 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? ... -
NASA Saturn V Owners' Workshop Manual: 1967-1973 (Apollo 4 to Apollo 17 & Skylab) by W. David Woods
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £19.051967-1973 (Apollo 4 to Apollo 17 & Skylab), Few launch vehicles are as iconic and distinctive as NASA's behemoth rocket, the Saturn V, and none left such a lasting impression on those who watched it ascend. Developed with the specific brief to send... -
Nightwalking: Four Journeys into Britain After Dark by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30'Britain's finest living nature writer' THE TIMES'Lewis-Stempel's greatest gift remains his prose, with all its vividness and energy' THE DAILY MAIL'The hottest nature writer around' THE SPECTATORAt night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the... -
Forces of Nature by Brian Cox
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.44Sunday Times Bestseller How did life on Earth begin? What is the nature of space and time? What are the chances that we will discover life on other worlds? Think you know our planet?Think again... -
Night Sky Almanac 2024: A stargazer’s guide by Storm Dunlop 9780008604295 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.48A beautiful gift for anyone interested in the night sky. Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this beautiful companion to the night sky from Astronomy experts Collins. With the aid of easy-to-understand... -
Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens by Chris Lintott 9781911709183
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.05An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroids, radio waves, new stars and alien life.'A riveting real-life Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.'... -
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universeIn this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from... -
The History of Our Universe in 21 Stars: (That You Can Spot in the Night Sky) by Giles Sparrow 9781802795059
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.30Previously published as A History of the Universe in 21 Stars.'A delight and triumph ... A thing of beauty ... Truly, truly magical' talkRADIOLook up on a clear evening, and you'll see thousands of stars shining in the night sky, each telling a story of... -
The Double Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden 9780008332983
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.33Spark your imagination, forge your own adventures and unearth long-lost skills. In this long-awaited follow-up to his much-loved bestseller, written with his sons Cameron and Arthur, Conn Iggulden presents a brand-new... -
The Universe by Andrew Cohen
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.98Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. ... -
Under the Stars - Europe 1 by Lonely Planet
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.24From wild camping to curling up in a cabin, discover 200 amazing places to sleep under the stars in Europe. Lonely Planet's experts have scoured the continent to recommend the best campsites, wild camping spots, huts, cabins and refuges in regions across... -
50 Things to See in the Sky by Sarah Barker
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.66A 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... -
Secrets of the Universe: How We Discovered the Cosmos by Paul Murdin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.60How did our universe come to exist? Why do stars shine? Is there life beyond the Earth? For millennia, humans have looked to the celestial sphere to explain the cosmos, first recording the movements of the Moon 25,000 years ago. Since the... -
The Sky at Night: The Art of Stargazing: My Essential Guide to Navigating the Night Sky by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock 9781785947896
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Look up...The Art of Stargazing is the ultimate insider's guide to the night sky in which award-winning space scientist and The Sky at Night presenter Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock shares her expertise and unique insights into the marvellous world of stars... -
Gateway to the Moon: Building the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex by Charles D. Benson 9780813020914
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.98Gateway to the Moon presents the definitive history of the origins, design, and construction of the lunar launch facilities at Kennedy Space Center, the terrestrial site of one of the greatest national adventures of the 20th century, humanity's first... -
Yearbook of Astronomy 2025 Brian Jones 9781036115159
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.74Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the _Yearbook of Astronomy 2025_ contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing... -
i-SPY In the Night Sky: What can you spot? (Collins Michelin i-SPY Guides) by i-SPY
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.37Beat the boredom and take time out from screens with this pocket-sized book packed with facts, photos and fantastic spots for hours of fun! Kids will have fun collecting points in the night sky with more than 140 things to find. From stars and... -
This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age by William E. Burrows 9780375754852
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375754852Author William E. BurrowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 629gDimensions(mm)... -
Sciencia: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Astronomy for All by Burkard Polster
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.52Curious about quarks, quasars and the fantastic universe around you? Ever wanted to explore a mathematical proof? Need some trigonometry fast? Want to swat up on physics, chemistry, or learn some new biology? Ever wondered why your scratches itch just... -
Hello, is this planet Earth?: My View from the International Space Station (Official Tim Peake Book) by Tim Peake
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.90The first book by astronaut Tim Peake - a mesmerising collection of over 150 of Tim's stunning photographs taken on board the International Space Station, many of which have never been seen before. Including a personal commentary from Tim, this is an...