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Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
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From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos , a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most of us suffer some...
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
In this scientific tour de force, world-class physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pioneering...
Night Sky Almanac 2026: A stargazer's guide
"Both delightful and useful." David Stickland, The Observatory "Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this stunning companion to the night sky." All About Space Follow the progress...
Zoom: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees: How Everything
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From the speed of light to moving mountains -- and everything in between -- Zoom explores how the universe and its objects move. If you sit as still as you...
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar
NOW IN PAPERBACK A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the...
Starwatchers: A History of Discovery in the Night Sky
'An exhilarating exploration of how we've been touched by the cosmos across human history' LEWIS DARTNELL 'Combines scientific expertise with vivid storytelling and a childlike wonder that shines on every...
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon...
The Comfort of Distant Stars
'This audacious, brilliant novel has it all' CHIKA UNIGWE 'Expansive, elegant and pathbreaking' TOPE FOLARIN 'An equation of life, time and magic' NICK MAKOHA Ezeani is no ordinary child. He...
2023 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A month-by-month
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January-December...
The Planets: A Journey Through the Solar System
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With nearly 200 spectacular images, this book follows the tracks of robotic rovers over Mars, plunges through Titan's atmosphere on the back of a Hugyens probe, smashes into a camel...
The Complete Idiot's Guide (R) to Theories of the Universe
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The Complete Idiot's GuideA (R) to Theories of the Universe takes readers on an exotic journey through the religious, philosophical, and scientific theories of the nature and origin of our...
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time...
A Journey Through The Universe: A traveler's guide from the centre of
There's a whole universe out there... Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and...
The Multiverse: When One Universe Isn't Enough
The universe was supposed to be all there was - the whole of existence. For centuries the size of the universe and whether or not it is finite, fascinated scientists...
Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Traveller's Guide to Blue Moons and
*Fully revised and updated for the 21st century* The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an odyssey into the deepest,...
Yearbook of Astronomy 2026
Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2026 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and sky...
Strange Universe: An Offbeat Tour of Our World and beyond
An illuminating and entertaining scientific exploration of everyday oddities Bob Berman's "Strange Universe "is a unique guidebook to some of the more bizarre moments in astronomy and astonishingly true facts...
Stephen Hawking's a Brief History of Time: A Reader's Companion
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The book titled Stephen Hawking's a Brief History of Time: A Reader's Companion by the author Stephen Hawking. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
Even by Victorian standards, the Scots/Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming was a man of extraordinary energy - designer of Canada's first postage stamp and the first street maps of Canadian cities,...
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions
The story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrums In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of...
The Edge of Infinity: Naked Singularities and the Destruction of
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The book titled The Edge of Infinity: Naked Singularities and the Destruction of by the author P. C. W. Davies. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Feynman's Lost Lecture: Motion of Planets Around the Sun
Richard Feynman's fame rests to a large extent on his picaresque exploits, but he was also a theoretical physicist of some significance. The discovery of the notes for his major...
Ten Tantalising Truths: Why the Sky is Blue, and other Big Answers to
Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there is another way to probe the...
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn's rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into...
Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in
Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories... 'There is magic in these pages.' Daisy Dunn, author of The Missing Thread In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus...
The Universe and Beyond
In the almost 15 years since the release of the fifth edition of The Universe and Beyond, our understanding of the universe has advanced exponentially. Previous editions guided readers through...
Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in
Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories... 'There is magic in these pages.' Daisy Dunn, author of The Missing Thread In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus...
The Meteorite Hunters: On the Trail of Extraterrestrial Treasures and
Planet Earth is under attack: every day, millions of meteoroids plummet through our atmosphere. Fortunately, the majority are minuscule - too small to survive the scouring of Earth's atmosphere, let...
Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in
Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories... 'There is magic in these pages.' Daisy Dunn, author of The Missing Thread In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus...
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Neat, and extremely simple: only a deep thinker such as Sean Carroll could introduce the complexity of Einstein's general relativity in such a luminous and...
Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth
From the 18th century vicar who was the first to look up at the night's sky and suggest there was something very dark and extraordinarily heavy that was moving the...
Just Visiting This Planet: Merlin Answers More Questions about
*Revised and updated for the twenty-first century* In this updated, illustrated companion volume to Merlin's Tour of the Universe, we visit again with Merlin, a timeless space traveler from Planet...
Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Traveller's Guide to Blue Moons and
*Fully revised and updated for the 21st century* The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an odyssey into the deepest,...
SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier
The private space industry's consensus leader, SpaceX, headed by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, is worth an estimated $187 billion today in 2023. And SpaceX is taking on more roles-flying cargo,...
Galileo: Watcher of the Skies
A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific Revolution Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the...
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1: Space, Time and Motion
Knowledge is power... A landmark new series from a prize-winning scientist and communicator In this major trilogy, Sean Carroll opens up the world of physics and shows that you don't...
Space Hazards: Asteroids, solar flares and cosmic threats facing Earth
"Highly recommended for anyone interested in space and the dangers that lurk there." BBC Sky at Night Magazine "Essential reading for anyone desperate for some facts and probabilities about actual...
The Crowded Universe: The Race to Find Life Beyond Earth
We are nearing a turning point in our quest for life in the universe,we now have the capacity to detect Earth-like planets around other stars. But will we find any?...
The Multiverse: When One Universe Isn't Enough
The universe was supposed to be all there was - the whole of existence. For centuries the size of the universe and whether or not it is finite, fascinated scientists...
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
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In this guide to science and society, a cosmologist argues that physics must embrace the excluded, listen to the unheard, and be unafraid of being wrong. Years ago, cosmologist Stephon...
Embracing Earth: New Views of Our Changing Planet
The book titled Embracing Earth: New Views of Our Changing Planet by the author Payson R. Stevens. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
The Rivers of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life
In July 1996, a NASA team led by David McKay and Everett Gibson announced the discovery of fossilized traces of microbial life in ALH84001, a meteorite from Mars recovered from...
Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets
The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes-and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs...
What If the Earth Had Two Moons?
"What if?" questions have always stimulated people to think in new ways. "What if the Earth Had Two Moons" leads us on a fascinating 10 world journey exploring what the...
Seeing and Believing: The Story of the Telescope, or How We Found Our
Richard Panek brings us an engaging and spirited chronicle of the humbling journey that has made humans smaller and the universe infinitely vaster than we ever imagined.
The Known Unknowns: The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos
Our understanding of ourselves and the cosmos has advanced immeasurably over the last five hundred years of modern science, yet many fundamental mysteries of existence persist. How did our Universe...
Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe
It's one of the most important and fascinating questions human beings can ponder, and astrobiology is the emerging field of science that tries to answer it. Astronomer Rhodri Evans gives...