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1 Nightwatch : A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe
Terence Dickinson

Current:
9.8
The third edition of Nightwatch continues its tradition of being the best handbook for the beginning astronomer. Terence Dickinson covers all the problems beginners face, starting with the fact that the night sky does not look ... [more] [Submit]
2 National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky (Audubon Society Field Guide Series)
Mark R. Chartrand

Current:
9.8
The perfect companion volume for Hale-Bopp watchers, this guide explores the fabulous mysteries above, from planets in our solar system to the constellations in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, stars, galaxies (including the Milk ... [more] [Submit]
3 Secrets of the Night Sky : The Most Amazing Things in the Universe You Can See With the Naked Eye
Bob Berman

Current:
9.6
You don't need expensive instruments to appreciate the beauty of the night sky, as Bob Berman exuberantly demonstrates in Secrets of the Night Sky. Berman takes you on a tour of the night sky, pointing out its highlights and its hist ... [more] [Submit]
4 Advanced Skywatching : The Backyard Astronomer's Guide to Starhopping and Exploring the Universe (Nature Company Guide)
Robert Burnham

Current:
9.5
Picking up where Skywatching left off, here is an invaluable, advanced observer's primer and field guide to the night sky. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
5 Hubble Vision : Further Adventures With the Hubble Space Telescope
Carolyn Collins Petersen

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 ... [more] [Submit]
6 A Walk Through the Heavens : A Guide to Stars and Constellations and Their Legends
Milton D. Heifetz, Wil Tirion

Current:
9.5
A Walk through the Heavens is a guide to the pathways of the night sky. Simplified maps of the constellations, together with instructions on how to gauge their sizes and the distances between them allow the reader to find the constellations ... [more] [Submit]
7 The Star Guide : Learn How to Read the Night Sky Star by Star: Includes a Planisphere
Robin Kerrod

Current:
9.5
An introduction to astronomy features an entertaining and informative text and contains a rotating ""planisphere,"" which enables the reader to locate the positions of the constellations. more] [Submit]
8 Atlas of the Universe
Patrick Moore

Current:
9.3
There are many atlases showing features on the surface of the earth, but this book is the only one (in late 1998, at least) to cover the whole universe. Patrick Moore, who has hosted BBC Radio's popular The Sky at Night program for m ... [more] [Submit]
9 Star Wars : The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons
Daniel Wallace, Brandon McKinney (Illustrator)

Current:
9.3
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 ... [more] [Submit]
10 Nightwatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe
Terence Dickinson

Current:
9.2
The third edition of Nightwatch continues its tradition of being the best handbook for the beginning astronomer. Terence Dickinson covers all the problems beginners face, starting with the fact that the night sky does not look ... [more] [Submit]
11 The Day After Roswell
Philip J. Corso, William J. Birnes

Current:
9.2
If you've ever wondered what crashed into the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, this book will give you some startling answers. While the first version was published in hardcover in 1997, Corso provides new evidence for the presence ... [more] [Submit]
12 The Source
Art Bell

Current:
9.0
Nighttime radio talk show host Art Bell and bestselling author Brad Steiger address topics as varied as ghosts, ancient civilizations, and psychic powers in The Source, a tribute to unexplained phenomena. The authors are heavily bias ... [more] [Submit]
13 Alien Agenda : Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us
Jim Marrs

Current:
8.9
Alien Agenda is the silk thread leading the way through the maze of UFO literature into the heart of the UFO controversy. While he begins with the premise that the existence of UFOs cannot be denied, Jim Marrs (author of more] [Submit]
14 Unconventional Flying Objects : A Scientific Analysis
Paul R. Hill

Current:
8.9
Here is a book to intrigue both non-technical and more mechanically inclined UFO enthusiasts. Without making a case for the origins of UFOs, Hill argues that their functionality is feasible by applying established principles of physics to e ... [more] [Submit]
15 Glimpses of Other Realities : High Strangeness
Linda Moulton Howe

Current:
8.9
Recovered crash debris, information from alleged military insiders, and the transfer of human souls from body to body--this isn't the script for the next SF blockbuster, but the voluminous exposition of evidence for a mystery involving the ... [more] [Submit]
16 The Gods of Eden
William Bramley

Current:
8.9
Concluding that humankind's most savage and brutal acts are the result of an alien conspiracy, a ""New Age"" interpretation of history blames everything from the wars of ancient Egypt to the assassination of JFK on alien intervention. Repri ... [more] [Submit]
17 The Day After Roswell
Philip J. Corso, William J. Birnes

Current:
8.9
If you've ever wondered what crashed into the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, this book will give you some startling answers. While the first version was published in hardcover in 1997, Corso provides new evidence for the presence ... [more] [Submit]
18 The Rainbow Conspiracy
Brad Steiger, Sherry Hansen Steiger

Current:
8.7
Read about the greatest cover-up of our time: what U.S. military leaders have learned about UFOs and how they concealed it from the public. of photos. Read more ... [more] [Submit]
19 Communion : A True Story
Whitley Strieber

Current:
8.7
Communion is a 25-week New York Times bestseller--one man's riveting account of his experience with visitors from "elsewhere": how they found him, where they took him, what they did to him. Strieber's astounding tale utterly claims the read ... [more] [Submit]
20 The Threat : Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda
David M., Phd. Jacobs

Current:
8.5
The world's foremost academic expert on UFOs and alien abductions provides the first evidence-based explanation of a mystery that has perplexed scientists for decades. Based on more than 700 hypnotic-regression interviews with al ... [more] [Submit]
21 Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51
Phil Patton

Current:
8.5
Dreamland is journalist Phil Patton's chronicle of his road trip into the low deserts and dry lakes of southern Nevada in search of the truth (which, presumably, is Out There). It's a cultural history of the cold war, a psychoanalysi ... [more] [Submit]
22 Dreamland : Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51
Phil Patton

Current:
8.4
Dreamland is journalist Phil Patton's chronicle of his road trip into the low deserts and dry lakes of southern Nevada in search of the truth (which, presumably, is Out There). It's a cultural history of the cold war, a psychoanalysi ... [more] [Submit]
23 Project Mindshift : The Re-Education of the American Public Concerning Extraterrestrial Life 1947-Present
Michael Mannion

Current:
8.4
Project Mindshift describes a startling new theory: that top secret forces in the U.S. Government have conducted a fifty-year campaign of re-education in order to first conceal, and then slowly reveal to the public the possibility of intell ... [more] [Submit]
24 Turn Left at Orion : A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope-And How to Find Them
Dan M. Davis

Current:
8.3
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25 The Cambridge Star Atlas
Wil Tirion

Current:
8.3
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26 A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets (Peterson Field Guides)
Jay M. Pasachoff

Current:
8.3
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27 Burnham's Celestial Handbook : An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System
Robert Burnham, Herbert A. Luft

Current:
8.3
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28 Skywatching (Nature Company Guide)
David H. Levy, John O'Byrne

Current:
8.2
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29 Splendors of the Universe: A Practical Guide to Photographing the Night Sky
Terence Dickinson

Current:
8.1
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30 How to Use an Astronomical Telescope
James Muirden

Current:
8.1
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31 Practical Astronomy With Your Calculator
Peter J. Duffett-Smith

Current:
8.1
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32 The Sextant Handbook : Adjustment, Repair, Use and History
Bruce Bauer

Current:
8.1
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33 Burnham's Celestial Handbook : An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System
Robert Burnham

Current:
8.1
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34 The Sirius Mystery : New Scientific Evidence for Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago
Robert K. G. Temple

Current:
7.9
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35 Passport to the Cosmos : Human Transformation and Alien Encounters
John E. MacK

Current:
7.8
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36 The Mothman Prophecies
John A. Keel

Current:
7.8
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37 Cosmic Explorers : Scientific Remote Viewing, Extraterrestrials, and a Message for Mankind
Courtney Brown

Current:
7.6
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38 The Chinese Roswell : Ufo Encounters in the Far East from Ancient Times to the Present
Hartwig Hausdorf

Current:
7.5
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39 Alien Encounters
Chuck Missler, Mark Eastman

Current:
7.4
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40 Alien Contact : Top-Secret Ufo Files Revealed
Timothy Good

Current:
7.4
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41 The Ufo Book : Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial
Jerome Clark

Current:
7.3
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42 The Divine Blueprint : Roadmap for the New Millennium
Robert Perala(Preface), Tony Stubbs

Current:
7.3
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43 Secret Life : Firsthand, Documented Accounts of Ufo Abductions
David M. Jacobs, John E. Mack

Current:
7.3
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44 Deep-Sky Companions : The Messier Objects
Stephen James O'Meara, David H. Levy

Current:
7.2
Steve O'Meara has been called "the best visual planetary observer of modern times." The first to spot Comet Halley on its return in 1985, the first to determine the rotation period of Uranus, he now turns his amazing visual skills to the de ... [more] [Submit]
45 365 Starry Nights : An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year
Chet Raymo

Current:
7.1
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46 Sky Atlas 2000.0 : Deluxe
Wil Tirion, Roger W. Sinnott

Current:
7.1
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47 Touring the Universe Through Binoculars : A Complete Astronomer's Guidebook
Philip S. Harrington, Phillip S. Harrington

Current:
7.1
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48 Burnham's Celestial Handbook : An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System
Robert Burnham, Herbert A. Luft

Current:
6.9
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49 The Soviet Ufo Files : Paranormal Encounters Behind the Iron Curtain
Paul Stonehill

Current:
6.8
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50 Abduction : Human Encounters With Aliens
John E. Mack, M. Mack

Current:
6.8
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