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A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
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Current:
9.7 |
Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe com
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Apollo : An Eyewitness Account By Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker
Alan Bean
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Current:
9.6 |
When NASA sent the crew of Apollo 12 to the moon, they may not have realized that they were giving an artist the vision that would carry him through a lifetime of painting. The artist, of course, was astronaut Alan Bean, whose trip t
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This New Ocean : The Story of the First Space Age
William E. Burrows
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Current:
9.5 |
More comprehensive than The Right Stuff, more critical than Apollo 13, This New Ocean is a near-perfect history of the men (and occ
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Before the Beginning : Our Universe and Others (Helix Books)
Martin J. Rees
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Current:
9.5 |
"Although we cannot observe them (and they may be forever inaccessible), other universes are a natural expectation from current cosmology. Moreover, many features of our universe that otherwise seem baffling fall into place once we rec
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Twelfth Planet
Zecharia Sitchin
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Current:
9.5 |
Zecharia Sitchen's The 12th Planet is the starting point on a quest that spans six books and 20 years worth of ancient aliens, genetic manipulation, and scrutiny of linguistic minutiae. If we trust Sitchen's translation abilities, we
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A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
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Current:
9.3 |
Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe com
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The Race : The Uncensored Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon
James L. Schefter
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Current:
9.2 |
When young Jim Schefter was a stringer for the Houston Chronicle and later Life magazine, he scored the plum reporting assignment of the 1960s--close-up coverage of the tense, heady race to space between the Americans and the
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Measuring the Universe : Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time
Kitty Ferguson
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Current:
9.2 |
If you want to measure how big a stick is, you can use a ruler. Want to know how tall a windmill is? Don't waste time climbing to the top with a long measuring tape. Instead, use the old shadow trick--measure the length of a yardstick's sha
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The Search For Superstrings, Symmetry, And The Theory Of Everything
John R. Gribbin
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Current:
9.2 |
In days of yore, educated men and women would avidly follow new developments in the world of science; these days it seems to be too much trouble--relativity was bad enough, but "N-dimensional space"? Fortunately for those of us who have tro
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The Five Ages of the Universe : Inside the Physics of Eternity
Fred Adams, Greg Laughlin
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Current:
9.1 |
There's a reason "astronomically large" means "larger than the scale of ordinary life": normal scales of time and space for astronomers involve millions of years and anywhere from thousands to quadrillions of kilometers. Even for astronomer
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When Time Began
Zecharia Sitchin
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Current:
9.0 |
They came to Earth thousands of years ago to usher in mankind's first New Age of scientific growth and spiritual enlightenment. Under the guidance of these ancient visitors from the heavens, human civilization flourished-as revolutionary ad
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Entering Space : Creating a Space-Faring Civilization
Robert Zubrin
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Current:
9.0 |
Humans are not native to the Earth. So posits astronautical engineer Bob Zubrin in the opening of Entering Space. We're native to just a small sliver of it, the spot where our species originated in tropical Kenya. We set out from tha
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Star Wars : The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons
Daniel Wallace, Brandon McKinney (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.9 |
For the true Star Wars fan, the Essential Guide to Planets and Moons is crucial. You can keep track of all the places mentioned in the movies, books, and comics with this detailed reference. One hundred locations, from the wel
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Apollo 8 : The NASA Mission Reports With CDRom
Robert Godwin, United States National Aeronautics and Space adm
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Current:
8.7 |
On December 21st 1968 the United States' National Aeronautics & Space Administration sent three men to orbit the moon. It was the boldest step yet taken in the quest to fulfill President John Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon by t
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The Real Science Behind the X Files: Microbes, Meteorites, and Mutants
Anne Elizabeth Simon, Chris Carter (Foreword)
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Current:
8.6 |
In The X-Files episode "The Erlenmeyer Flask," FBI agent Dana Scully shows some bacteria to microbiologist Anne Carpenter, who pronounces them extraterrestrial: containing different DNA nucleotides than those found in Earthly organis
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Comet
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
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Current:
8.5 |
WHAT ARE THESE GRACEFUL VISITORS TO OUR SKIES? WE NOW KNOW THAT THEY BRING BOTH LIFE AND DEATH AND TEACH US ABOUT OUR ORIGINS.Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Ca
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Meteorites and Their Parent Planets
Harry Y. McSween, Jr. McSween
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Current:
8.5 |
Meteorites and Their Parent Planets provides an engrossing overview of a highly interdisciplinary field--the study of extraterrestrial materials. The second edition of this successful book has been thoroughly revised, and describes the natu
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Comets : Creators and Destroyers
David H. Levy
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Current:
8.4 |
Comets have long dwelled in our imaginations as harbingers of fortune, good and bad, and this very human interest lies at the heart of the book. Comets, by astronomer and science writer David H. Levy (one of the discoverers of Comet
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Merlin's Tour of the Universe : A Skywatcher's Guide to Everything from Mars and Quasars to Comets, Planets, Blue Moons, and Werewolves
Neil De Grasse Tyson, Neil De Grasse Tyson
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Current:
8.3 |
As charming as it is informed, this collection of answers about the universe presents a delightful tour of the galaxy via conversations with Kepler, Einstein, Doppler, Da Vinci, and other historical figures, as recounted by Merlin, a fictio
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Catastrophism : Asteroids, Comets and Other Dynamic Events in Earth History
Richard Huggett
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Current:
8.2 |
One of the most dramatic intellectual events of the last decade has been the stunning re-emergence of the catastrophist paradigm in the biological and earth sciences--from killer asteroids to emergent viruses. Surveying various such theorie
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The Three Big Bangs : Comet Crashes, Exploding Stars, and the Creation of the Universe
Philip M. Dauber, Richard Alfred Muller
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Current:
8.2 |
The universe was created in the first Big Bang, but according to Philip Dauber and Richard Muller that alone couldn't have been sufficient to set the stage for life on Earth today. Two more big bangs were needed: one in the form of a supern
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Impact! : The Threat of Comets and Asteroids
Gerrit L. Verschuur
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Current:
8.1 |
Scientists have not yet discovered a smoking gun in the unsolved mystery of dinosaur extinction, but they have one heck of a candidate in something called the Chicxulub Crater. Roughly 65 million years ago, a 10-kilometer-wide object slamme
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The Tucson Meteorites : Their History from Frontier Arizona to the Smithsonian
Richard R. Willey
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Current:
8.0 |
The Tucson Meteorites were discovered during the first half of the 19th century on the desolate Mexican frontier that later became Arizona. In this book, Richard R. Willey recounts the bizarre history of these meteorites and explores the my
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A Man on the Moon : The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
Andrew L. Chaikin, Tom Hanks
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Current:
7.9 |
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Apollo 11 : The Nasa Mission Reports
Robert Godwin(Compiler), Buzz Aldrin
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Current:
7.9 |
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Apollo 10 : The Nasa Mission Reports
Robert Godwin
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Current:
7.7 |
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Fundamentals of Astrodynamics
Roger R. Bate
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Current:
7.7 |
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| 28
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Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension
Michio Kaku
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Current:
7.6 |
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Black Holes and Time Warps : Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
Kip S. Thorne
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7.6 |
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Lost Moon : The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Jim Lovell
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Current:
7.6 |
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Apollo 11 : The NASA Mission Reports Volume Two (The NASA Mission Reports)
Robert Godwin
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Current:
7.6 |
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Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another World
Robert Zimmerman
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Current:
7.6 |
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Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan
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Current:
7.6 |
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Gravitation
Charles W. Misner
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Current:
7.6 |
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Mining the Sky : Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets
John S. Lewis
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Current:
7.5 |
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Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets : Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated
Tom Van Flandern
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Current:
7.5 |
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Chesapeake Invader : Discovering America's Giant Meteorite Crater
C. Wylie Poag
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Current:
7.5 |
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Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids
Seymour Simon
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Current:
7.5 |
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Night Comes to the Cretaceous : Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs
James Lawrence Powell
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Current:
7.4 |
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Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets : The Search for the Million Megaton Menace That Threatens Life on Earth
Duncan Steel, Arthur Charles Clarke (Foreword)
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7.3 |
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Rain of Iron and Ice : The Very Real Threat of Comet and Asteroid Bombardment (Helix Books)
John S. Lewis
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Current:
7.2 |
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Fire on Earth : Doomsday, Dinosaurs, and Humankind
John R. Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
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Current:
7.1 |
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The Heavens on Fire : The Great Leonid Meteor Storms
Mark Littmann
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Current:
7.1 |
Imagine the night sky so full of shooting stars that the firmament itself seems to be crashing to Earth. The Heavens on Fire vividly tells the history of meteors, especially the spectacular Leonid showers. Publication coincides with the pea
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Exodus to Arthur : Catastrophic Encounters With Comets
Mike Baillie
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Current:
7.0 |
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| 45
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Countdown to Apocalypse : Asteroids, Tidal Waves, and the End of the World
Paul Halpern
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Current:
7.0 |
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Cosmic Collisions : Cosmic Collisions (Scientific American Focus Book)
Dana Desonie
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Current:
6.9 |
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Thunderstones and Shooting Stars : Meaning of Meteorites
Robert S. Dodd
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Current:
6.9 |
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Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids (Space Science Series)
Tom Gehrels
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Current:
6.9 |
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Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life
Paul J. Thomas
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Current:
6.8 |
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Meteorite Craters
Kathleen Mark
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6.7 |
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