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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene
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9.8 |
There is an ill-concealed skeleton in the closet of physics: "As they are currently formulated, general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot both be right." Each is exceedingly accurate in its field: general relativity explains th
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A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
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Current:
9.8 |
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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A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
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Current:
9.8 |
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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Measuring the Universe : Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time
Kitty Ferguson
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Current:
9.7 |
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 Whole Shebang : A State-Of-The-Universe(s) Report
Timothy Ferris
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Current:
9.7 |
Plenty of books try to explain the origin of the universe, but despite the ascendance of the Big Bang theory, numerous details of that theory remain in flux as new observations are made and new hypotheses formed (and then confirmed or rejec
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Beyond Einstein : The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe
Michio Kaku, Jennifer Trainer Thompson
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Current:
9.7 |
Beyond Einstein takes readers on an exciting excursion into the discoveries that have led scientists to the brightest new prospect in theoretical physics today -- superstring theory. What is superstring theory and why is it important
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The Cosmic Code (The Earth Chronicles, No 6)
Zecharia Sitchin
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Current:
9.7 |
Many thousands of years ago, a race of extraordinary beings guided the evolution of life on earth, determining the existence and nature of mankind as we know it today. From deep inside ancient Sumerian texts that predate even the Bible, Zec
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The Five Ages of the Universe : Inside the Physics of Eternity
Fred Adams, Greg Laughlin
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Current:
9.7 |
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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Mere Creation; Science, Faith & Intelligent Design
William A. Dembski
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Current:
9.7 |
Nineteen experts trained in mathematics, mechanical engineering, philosophy, astrophysics, ecology, evolutionary biology, and other disciplines challenge the reigning ideology of materialistic naturalism on both scientific and philosophical
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The Inflationary Universe : The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins
Alan H. Guth, Alan P. Lightman
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Current:
9.6 |
Just about everyone in the scientific community accepts the theory that our universe began in a "big bang"--but that theory leaves numerous unanswered questions about why the cosmos formed in just the manner we observe today. In more]
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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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God's Equation : Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
Amir D. Aczel
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Current:
9.5 |
Who would have thought a mathematical constant would make such an engaging character? God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe, mathematician Amir Aczel's tale of the search for a scientific explanation of the
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Hubble Vision : Further Adventures With the Hubble Space Telescope
Carolyn Collins Petersen
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Current:
9.5 |
The first edition of Hubble Vision was published in 1995, when the Hubble Space Telescope was already "the foremost observatory of our age." This second edition has been almost completely r
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Captured by Aliens : The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe
Joel Achenbach
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Current:
9.4 |
Joel Achenbach (Why Things Are) describes Captured by Aliens as a travelogue, a record of his strange journey into "alien country." With Carl Sagan as a sort of totem animal on this
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Mars : Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet
Paul Raeburn, National Geographic
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Current:
9.4 |
On Mars the sky is pink, the polar caps are made of dry ice, the volcanoes are 17 miles high, and there is a little rock named Lozenge. Paul Raeburn's new book about Mars is full of fun facts like these. Published by the National Geographic
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Nothing in This Book Is True, but It's Exactly How Things Are : The Esoteric Meaning of the Monuments on Mars
Bob Frissell, Brett Lilly
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Current:
9.4 |
A look at the phenomenon of sacred geometry focuses on the monuments discovered in 1976 on Mars by NASA's Viking spacecraft, speculating on their meaning in terms of extraterrestrial life, aliens on Earth, and meditational rebirthing
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The Mars Mystery : The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet
Graham Hancock
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Current:
9.4 |
Mars holds a special fascination for us, because it is the most Earth-like planet we've yet encountered. As we continue to explore the red planet, geological evidence mounts that long ago water flowed freely across its surface, begging the
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Mars Mystery : The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet
Graham Hancock
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Current:
9.4 |
Mars holds a special fascination for us, because it is the most Earth-like planet we've yet encountered. As we continue to explore the red planet, geological evidence mounts that long ago water flowed freely across its surface, begging the
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The Monuments of Mars : A City on the Edge of Forever
Richard C. Hoagland
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Current:
9.2 |
In 1976, NASA sent four Viking spacecraft to Mars to photograph the planet and test for the presence of life. One of the orbiters photographed a mile-long mesa that uncannily resembled a human face. Hoagland takes readers step by step throu
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The Mars Pathfinder Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper"
Price Pritchett, Brian Muirhead
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Current:
9.2 |
There's a new market battle cry being sounded around the world: Faster-Better-Cheaper. Organizations everywhere are in a competitive war trying to pick up speed, improve output, and do it all for less money. Actually, "improvement" per s
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Managing Martians
Donna Shirley, Danelle Morton
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Current:
9.2 |
Donna Shirley dreamed of going to Mars since she was a starstruck kid in Oklahoma, reading science fiction and staring up at the big Western sky. Managing Martians chronicles her life from flight-obsessed childhood to the realization
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The Case for the Face : Scientists Examine the Evidence for Alien Artifacts on Mars
Stanley V. McDaniel, Monica Rix Paxson
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Current:
9.1 |
In 1976, NASA's Viking orbiters photographed the surface of Mars and sent pictures back to Earth. What some people see in these pictures, a distinctly humanoid face, has been hotly debated ever since, prompting the question, "Ar
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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:
9.1 |
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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The Monkey & the Tetrahedron : Compelling Connections Between Mars, the Ufo Dilemma & the Future of the Human Race
David M. Jinks
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Current:
9.0 |
The Monkey and The Tetrahedron is a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence supporting: * the existence of extraterrestrial artifacts * the reality of the "excess energy" phenomenon * the presence of unusual electromagnetic effect
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The Hunt for Life on Mars
Donald Goldsmith, Daniel Goldsmith
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Current:
9.0 |
This is the first book to attempt a full account of NASA's August 1996 announcement that an ancient Martian meteorite discovered in Antarctica may contain evidence of extraterrestrial life. Goldsmith treads carefully, knowing full well that
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The Exploration of Mars : Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life
Piers Bizony
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Current:
9.0 |
Addressing one of the hottest scientific debates of the decade, "The Exploration of Mars" offers a "informative and highly readable (book) . . . the clear and lucid style makes it suitable for anyone who wants an introduction to the search
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MARS 2000: The Complete Guide to Robotic and Human Exploration of the Red Planet
World Spaceflight News
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Current:
8.9 |
THE ULTIMATE, AUTHORITATIVE, UP-TO-DATE CD-ROM SOURCE FOR MARS ENTHUSIASTS! This unique electronic book has an outstanding collection of the finest documents on Martian exploration. 126 documents - from colorful educational overviews to hig
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Stephen Hawking's Universe : The Cosmos Explained
David Filkin, Stephen Hawking
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Current:
8.9 |
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A Brief History of Everything
Ken Wilber, Tony Schwartz
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Current:
8.9 |
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The Science of God : The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom
Gerald L. Schroeder
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Current:
8.7 |
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Genesis Revisited : Is Modern Science Catching Up With Ancient Knowledge
Zecharia Sitchin
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Current:
8.7 |
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The Invisible Universe
David Malin, Timothy Ferris
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Current:
8.7 |
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Magnificent Universe
Ken Croswell
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Current:
8.6 |
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Phenomenon of Man
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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Current:
8.4 |
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Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan
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8.3 |
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A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets (Peterson Field Guides)
Jay M. Pasachoff
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8.3 |
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The First Three Minutes : A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
Steven Weinberg
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Current:
8.1 |
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The Case for Mars : The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner
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8.1 |
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The Case for Mars : The Plan to Settle the Red Planet
Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner
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Current:
7.9 |
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The Mars Project
Wernher Von Braun
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Current:
7.9 |
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THE TRAVELLERS' GUIDE TO MARS
Michael Pauls, Dana Facaros
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Current:
7.9 |
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The Martian Enigmas : A Closer Look
Mark J. Carlotto
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Current:
7.9 |
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Mars : The Living Planet
Barry E. Digregorio
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Current:
7.9 |
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Destination Mars; In Art, Myth, and Science
Martin Caidin
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Current:
7.8 |
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Search for Life on Mars
Malcolm Walter
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Current:
7.6 |
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The Planet Mars : A History of Observation & Discovery
William Sheehan
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Current:
7.5 |
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Architects of the Underworld : Unriddling Atlantis, Anomalies of Mars, and the Mystery of the Sphinx
Bruce Rux
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Current:
7.4 |
By painstakingly following the long international paper trails that connect such apparently unrelated manifestations and occurrences as crop circles, alien abductions, extraterrestrial activity, and many other modern mysteries, Bruce Rux un
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Patrick Moore on Mars
Patrick Moore
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Current:
7.4 |
Night falls over the equator and Phoebus rises from the west. It takes only 4 1/4 hours for this nearest moon to cross the sky--more than enough time for it to wax from new to full. This is the enduring charm of Mars: the more you learn
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Sky Atlas 2000.0 : Deluxe
Wil Tirion, Roger W. Sinnott
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Current:
7.4 |
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Mars (Space Science Series)
Hugh H. Kieffer
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Current:
7.4 |
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