Science - Astronomy

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Missouri Total Eclipse Guide: Commemo...

Aaron Linsdau

Missouri Total Eclipse Guide: Commemorative Official Keepsake GuidebookOn August 21, a remarkable event will occur over Missouri. A rare total eclipse will pass directly over this state. If you are planning to view the total eclipse i...

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Published: Apr 2017

Wyoming Total Eclipse Guide: Commemor...

Aaron Linsdau

On August 21, a remarkable event will occur over Wyoming. A rare total eclipse will pass directly over the Cowboy State. If you are planning to view the total eclipse in Wyoming, you need the Wyoming Total Eclipse Guide. This book has...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2017

101 Amazing Sights of the Night Sky: ...

George Moromisato

See the best that the night sky has to offer.Is there anything more amazing than the night sky? You've seen the stars and the constellations―but there's so much more to discover! George Moromisato's guide introduces you to 101 sight...

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Published: Mar 2017

2021 Night Sky Almanac: A Month-By-Mo...

Nicole Mortillaro

2021 Night Sky Almanac is the ideal resource for both novice and experienced sky watchers in the United States and Canada, with all of the advice, information and data you need to understand and enjoy the wonders of the night sky thro...

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Published: Oct 2020

2022 Night Sky Almanac: A Month-by-Mo...

Nicole Mortillaro

A portable guidebook for enjoying the night sky in 2022. 2022 Night Sky Almanac is the ideal resource for both novice and experienced sky watchers in the United States and Canada, with all of the advice, information and data that en...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2021

2023 Night Sky Almanac: A Month-by-Mo...

Nicole Mortillaro

2023 Night Sky Almanac is the ideal resource for both novice and experienced sky watches in the United States and Canada, with all of the advice, information and data you need to understand and enjoy the wonders of the night sky throu...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2022

2024 Night Sky Almanac: A Month-by-Mo...

Nicole Mortillaro

Total solar eclipse April 8, 2024 will be the only eclipse in the 21st century, seen in US, Canada and Mexico. 2024 Night Sky Almanac is the ideal resource for both novice and experienced sky watchers in the United States and Canada...

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Published: Sep 2023

Stargazing for Dummies

Steve Owens

Reach for the starsStargazing is the practice of observing the night sky and its contents - from constellations through to planets and galaxies. Stars and other night sky objects can be seen with the naked eye, or seen in greater numb...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2012

Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe

Parallax

2017 Reprint of 1865 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  Zetetic Astronomy is a key work of flat-earth thought, just as Donnelly's Atlantis, the Antediluvian World is ...

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Published: Mar 2017

50 Targets for the Mid-Sized Telescop...

John Read

Written as a follow up to 50 Things to See with a Small Telescope, containing virtually no overlap in content, 50 Targets for the Mid-Sized Telescope introduces the beginner stargazer to a new assortment of astronomical wo...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2017

Planets: A Very Short Introduction

David A. Rothery

From the rings of Saturn to the "canals" of Mars and the Great Red Dot of Jupiter, the planets of our Solar System have long fascinated humanity. Featuring many striking photos, this Very Short Introduction offers a fascinat...

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Published: Dec 2010

Extraterrestrials (MIT Press Essentia...

Wade Roush

Are we alone in the universe? If not, where is everybody? An engaging exploration of one of the most important unsolved problems in science. Everything we know about how planets form and how life arises suggests that human civilizati...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2020

Stargazing: Beginners Guide to Astron...

Royal Observatory Greenwich

This is the perfect beginner's guide to astronomy for use in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. It discusses how to plan your stargazing and what you can see with your eyes, as well as how to choose binoculars and telescopes a...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2017

America's First Great Eclipse: How Sc...

Steve Ruskin

Based on a decade of research, America's First Great Eclipse takes readers on a thrilling historical journey, revealing that nineteenth-century Americans were just as excited about a total solar eclipse as we are today ... and, like ...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2017

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Lif...

Sarah Stewart Johnson

“Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of Mars in this celebration of human curiosity, passion, and perseverance.&rdquo...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2021

Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Ear...

Michael Summers

The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets ...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2018

Galileo Galilei - Including a Brief ...

Various

Galileo Galilee did not invent the telescope but he was the first to realize it's true importance. Galileo can claim to be the first to truly see the vast scale of our solar system, bodies orbiting other planets leading him to support...

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Published: Oct 2014

Isaac Newton - A Biography of Newton ...

Various

Isaac Newton is regularly given the title of greatest scientist of all time, and in this biography we delve into how one quiet, 'difficult' farmers son, revolutionized the way we look at the universe. The theory of universal gravitati...

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Published: Oct 2014

Johannes Kepler - Including a Brief H...

Various

Johannes Kepler was a key figure in the scientific revolution of the 17th century and this in-depth biography delves into he life and works of the man whose laws of planetary motion became one of the bed rocks of Newton's theory of un...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2014

Nicolaus Copernicus, Father of the So...

Various

Nicolaus Copernicus's name is well known to anybody with an interest in science but the story of his life and works is less well known. This in-depth biography looks at the life of the man many people regard as a true genius for his d...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2014

Ptolemy - The Einstein of Antiquity

Various

Claudius Ptolemy is sometimes called the Einstein of antiquity, this biography of his life and works delves into the life and times of the man who could be called the father of astronomy.

Paperback
Published: Oct 2014

The Giants of British Astronomy - The...

Various

The enlightenment was an explosion of scientific thought that started in the Britain and swept the world, the goal of which was to measure, study and understand the universe without the need for superstition. Isaac Newton could claim ...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2014

The Great Astronomers of Continental ...

Various

As Europe began to wake up from what has become known as 'the dark ages', the study of the planets and stars began to leave the realm of astrology and become something that we can now recognize as modern astronomy. This revolution was...

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Published: Oct 2014

The Herschels - A Family of Astronome...

Various

The Herschel family could hold claim to being the most incredible family in the history of Astronomy. This biography charts the families history from Germany where William and Caroline where born, to England where they made their name...

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Published: Oct 2014

Tycho Brahe - The Nobel Astronomer - ...

Various

This fascinating biography of Tycho Brahe delves into the life and work of one of the most remarkable men in the history of Astronomy, from how he lost his nose in a duel to the castle he turned into a scientific observatory and becam...

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Published: Oct 2014

Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide (Beginn...

William H. Waller

A former NASA scientist makes the cosmic common knowledge To study astronomy is to consider the most wondrous phenomena on the grandest of scales – the universe and all it contains. Beginning with our earliest exploration...

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Published: Oct 2022

Aurora: In Search of the Northern Lig...

Dr Melanie Windridge

The 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 imaginatio...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2017

The Pluto Files

Neil Degrasse Tyson

This New York Times best-selling author chronicles America's irrational love affair with Pluto, man's best celestial friend. When the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood, Americans rallied behind this extrat...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2009
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