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The Mars Pathfinder Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper"
Price Pritchett, Brian Muirhead
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Current:
9.6 |
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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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:
9.5 |
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:
9.5 |
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 Exploration of Mars : Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life
Piers Bizony
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Current:
9.5 |
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 : Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet
Paul Raeburn, National Geographic
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Current:
9.5 |
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:
9.4 |
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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Managing Martians
Donna Shirley, Danelle Morton
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Current:
9.3 |
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 Monkey & the Tetrahedron : Compelling Connections Between Mars, the Ufo Dilemma & the Future of the Human Race
David M. Jinks
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Current:
9.2 |
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:
9.2 |
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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MARS 2000: The Complete Guide to Robotic and Human Exploration of the Red Planet
World Spaceflight News
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Current:
9.2 |
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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Journey Beyond Selene: Remarkable Expeditions Past Our Moon and to the Ends of the Solar System
Jeffrey Kluger
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Current:
9.2 |
Earth's moon, called Selene by the Greeks, is a gray, lifeless place, interesting geologically but perhaps a little disappointing to those of us looking for strange, colorful new worlds. But our moon is only one of more than 60 planetary sa
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Other Worlds : Images of the Cosmos from Earth and Space
James S. Trefil
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Current:
9.2 |
Outstanding imagery, stunningly presented. Perceptive text from award-winning science writer James Trefil. A foreword by David H. Levy, discoverer of 21 comets. Put them all together and you get Other Worlds: Images of the Cosmos fro
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Planetary Dreams : The Quest to Discover Life Beyond Earth
Robert Shapiro
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Current:
9.0 |
Are we alone, literally freaks of nature, just one planet of living, breathing things amidst a seemingly infinite, lifeless desert? This is one of the big questions posed by human nature, one that we have traditionally looked to religion to
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Frommer's The Moon: A Guide for First-Time Visitors (Frommer Other)
Werner Kum
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Current:
8.9 |
At last! Everything you need to plan a worry-free vacation to the Moon! In this book, you'll find all of the details on how much your trip will cost, how to train, and what to expect during lift-off. You'll get the straight story on how to
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Meteorites and Their Parent Planets
Harry Y. McSween, Jr. McSween
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Current:
8.9 |
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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Earth : Evolution of a Habitable World
Jonathan Irving Lunine
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Current:
8.8 |
This is an outstanding overview of the history of the Earth from a unique planetary perspective for introductory courses in the earth sciences. The book approaches Earth history as an evolution, encompassing the origin of the cosmos through
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The Planet Observer's Handbook
Fred W. Price
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Current:
8.7 |
The author shows the reader how to operate a telescope and record planetary observations. He demonstrates how to make use of the latest technological advances in planetary photography such as video-assisted drawing and the revolutionary new
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Puzzling Questions About the Solar System
Martin Gardner, Ted Schroeder (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.6 |
Stars and Planets is a sturdy, thorough field guide for amateur astronomers. The book's first section is a general introduction to astronomy. A solar system primer and constellation catalog are followed by a month-by-month night sky
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Eyewitness Handbooks: Stars and Planets
Ian Ridpath
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Current:
8.6 |
Stars and Planets is a sturdy, thorough field guide for amateur astronomers. The book's first section is a general introduction to astronomy. A solar system primer and constellation catalog are followed by a month-by-month night sky
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The Moon Book : Fascinating Facts About the Magnificent, Mysterious Moon
Kim Long
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Current:
8.6 |
Written by a leading planetary scientist, this book tells the remarkable story of how our solar system came into existence. It provides a fast-paced, non-technical and expert tour of our new understanding of the Earth, its planetary neighbo
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Just Visiting This Planet : Merlin Answers More Questions About Everything Under the Sun, Moon, and Stars
Neil De Grasse Tyson
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Current:
8.5 |
Merlin, a scholar visiting Earth from the planet Omniscia in the Andromeda galaxy, is familiar to readers of Star Date magazine, published by the McDonald Observatory. Just Visiting This Planet is the second collection of ques
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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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Current:
8.4 |
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| 26
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THE TRAVELLERS' GUIDE TO MARS
Michael Pauls, Dana Facaros
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Current:
8.4 |
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The Martian Enigmas : A Closer Look
Mark J. Carlotto
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Current:
8.3 |
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| 28
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Mars : The Living Planet
Barry E. Digregorio
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Current:
8.3 |
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Destination Mars; In Art, Myth, and Science
Martin Caidin
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Current:
8.3 |
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Search for Life on Mars
Malcolm Walter
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Current:
8.2 |
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The Case for Mars : The Plan to Settle the Red Planet
Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner
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Current:
8.1 |
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The Mars Project
Wernher Von Braun
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Current:
8.0 |
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The Planet Mars : A History of Observation & Discovery
William Sheehan
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Current:
7.9 |
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| 34
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Exploring the Moon : The Apollo Expeditions (Springer-Praxis Series in Space Science and Technology)
D. M. Harland
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Current:
7.9 |
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Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets : Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated
Tom Van Flandern
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Current:
7.8 |
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The Planets
David McNab, James Younger
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Current:
7.8 |
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The NASA Atlas of the Solar System
Ronald Greeley
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Current:
7.7 |
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Encyclopedia of the Solar System
Paul R. Weissman
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Current:
7.7 |
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| 39
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Empire of the Sun : Planets and Moons of the Solar System
John R. Gribbin
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Current:
7.5 |
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| 40
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The Copernican Revolution : Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought
Thomas S. Kuhn
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Current:
7.5 |
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Planets : A Guide to the Solar System (Golden Guides)
Mark R. Chartrand, Ron Miller (Illustrator)
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Current:
7.5 |
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes : A Naked-Eye Guide to the Sky, Its Science, and Lore
Arthur Upgren
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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:
7.3 |
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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The New Solar System
J. Kelly Beatty
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Current:
7.3 |
A decade of stunning discoveries has rewritten the road map of our solar system. Bright comets blazed in the sky while Galileo beamed back astonishing images from Jupiter and Mars Pathfinder sped to the surface of Mars. A comet hit Jupiter,
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Destiny or Chance : Our Solar System and Its Place in the Cosmos
Stuart Ross Taylor
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Current:
7.3 |
Written by a leading planetary scientist, this book tells the remarkable story of how our solar system came into existence. It provides a fast-paced, non-technical and expert tour of our new understanding of the Earth, its planetary neighbo
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Mars (Space Science Series)
Hugh H. Kieffer
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Current:
7.3 |
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