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NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America

NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America

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This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV show Star Trek to...
Equinox: Maths

Equinox: Maths

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This volume opens with an examination of the relationship between humans and the universe around them. Each chapter is based on an individual programme from the "Equinox" television series. "Space...
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

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Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration...
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

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The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown...
Atlas of Amazing Architecture: The most incredible buildings you've

Atlas of Amazing Architecture: The most incredible buildings you've

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This fact-filled guide for kids 7 to 17 explores the world of architecture as you've never seen it before, from tiny shacks to vast palaces - and everything in between!...
Ultimate Questions & Answers: Planet Earth

Ultimate Questions & Answers: Planet Earth

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Everything you could ever want to know about our weird and wonderful planet
The Catch: Australia's love affair with fishing

The Catch: Australia's love affair with fishing

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Bringing her personal passion for throwing in a line, author and historian Anna Clark celebrates the enduring pleasure of fishing. In every coastal town in Australia, there's a bait shop...
Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit,

Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit,

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Award-winning science writer and documentarian Rod Pyle presents an insider's perspective on the most unusual and bizarre space missions ever devised inside and outside of NASA. The incredible projects described...
GPS Made Easy: Using Global Positioning Systems in the Outdoors

GPS Made Easy: Using Global Positioning Systems in the Outdoors

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"A one-stop source of information" - Arizona Republic "Buying and reading this book won't guarantee you'll never get lost again, but it's a good start." - Los Angeles Daily News...
The Alpha And Omega

The Alpha And Omega

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Since A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME scientists have been in the midst of a revolution in cosmology. Gradually, astronomers and physicists are answering questions that have plagued mankind since prehistory-...
Climate Change and Social Justice

Climate Change and Social Justice

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The impacts of climate change can already be felt in society and on the Earth itself. As new evidence of the environmental impact of climate change is constantly emerging, we...
The White Darkness

The White Darkness

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'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's The Lost City of Z 'A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration' Sunday...
Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea

Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea

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Contrary to popular belief, fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the world was round. The idea of the world as a sphere...
The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the

The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the

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Over the last few decades, space exploration has revolutionised our understanding of our place in the cosmos. We now know that there are many habitable environments within our solar system....
A Traveller's Guide to Mars: The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red

A Traveller's Guide to Mars: The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red

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In this extraordinary Baedeker--accessible, up-to-date, and prodigiously illustrated with photographs from Mariner 9, Viking, Pathfinder, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the ongoing mars Global Surveyor spacecraft--visitors will encounter: Olympus Mons...
Countdown To Apocalypse: A Scientific Exploration Of The End Of The

Countdown To Apocalypse: A Scientific Exploration Of The End Of The

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Inspired by the end of the millennium, celebrated science writer Paul Halpern tackles the fate of human civilization and our planet in this meditation on the end of the world....
The Big Bang Never Happened

The Big Bang Never Happened

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The big bang theory of cosmology - the idea that the universe originated in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty billion years ago - has become the foundation...
Afterglow of Creation: Decoding the message from the beginning of time

Afterglow of Creation: Decoding the message from the beginning of time

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It's the oldest fossil in creation. It accounts for 99.9% of all the light in the Universe Its discoverers mistook it for the 'glow' of pigeon droppings (yet still carried...
Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to

Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to

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A clever, thought-provoking guide that attacks common astronomical misconceptions What is Bad Astronomy? Anything that accidentally or intentionally mangles the basic principles of astronomy. And who is on the lookout...
Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the

Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the

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Cutting-edge astrophysics that builds on Einstein's theories to find the unseen matter that fills the Universe. Dark energy. Dark matter. These strange and invisible substances don't just sound mysterious: their...
Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957-1965

Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957-1965

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The race to the moon dominated space flight during the the 1960s yet, during the late 1950s and early 1960s, the US Government sponsored a project that could possibly have...
Powsels and Thrums

Powsels and Thrums

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' I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration ' PHILIP PULLMAN ' One of Britain's greatest writers ' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Alan Garner's world is unbearably beautiful and...
Unknown Universe: Discover hidden wonders from deep space unveiled by

Unknown Universe: Discover hidden wonders from deep space unveiled by

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A lens into the unexplored and unseen cosmos. A beautiful book showcasing the most stunning images from the first years of the James Webb Space Telescope , the most powerful...
History of Cities in Maps: The ultimate visual exploration of human

History of Cities in Maps: The ultimate visual exploration of human

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A fascinating cartographic study of urban development, perfect for map and history lovers. The city, a concept nearly as old as history itself, is a paradox of human innovation and...
The Unknown Universe: What We Don't Know About Time and Space in Ten

The Unknown Universe: What We Don't Know About Time and Space in Ten

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On 21 March 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of...
Island Home: A Landscape Memoir

Island Home: A Landscape Memoir

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A beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped Tim Winton and his writing. From boyhood, Winton's relationship with the world...
Placing Nature: Culture And Landscape Ecology

Placing Nature: Culture And Landscape Ecology

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Landscape ecology is a widely influential approach to looking at ecological function at the scale of landscapes, and accepting that human beings powerfully affect landscape pattern and function. It goes...
Our Moon: A Human History

Our Moon: A Human History

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'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship' TELEGRAPH 'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime...
Astronomy 101: From the Sun and Moon to Wormholes and Warp Drive, Key

Astronomy 101: From the Sun and Moon to Wormholes and Warp Drive, Key

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Explore the curiosities of our galaxy with this comprehensive, digestible guide to astronomy! Too often, textbooks obscure the beauty and wonder of outer space with tedious discourse that even Galileo...
StarTalk: Everything You Want to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the

StarTalk: Everything You Want to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the

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In the tradition of Jon Stewart's best-selling EARTH, this beautifully illustrated companion to celebrated scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson's popular podcast and National Geographic Channel TV show is an eye-opening journey...
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from

A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from

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You only need to press the snooze button on your alarm a bit too often to understand the importance of good timekeeping. What you might not know is that the...
Godel Meets Einstein: Time Travel in the Godel Universe

Godel Meets Einstein: Time Travel in the Godel Universe

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What happens when the century's greatest logician meets the century's greatest physicist? In the case of Kurt Gdel and Albert Einstein, the result is Gdel's revolutionary new world models for...
Laboratory Earth

Laboratory Earth

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The possibility of global climatic change as a result of increasing numbers of people requiring higher stands of living has spawned an international controversy over the appropriateness of controls on...
Europe: The First 100 Million Years

Europe: The First 100 Million Years

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It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made...
A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays

A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Published more than two decades ago to great critical acclaim and commercial success, A Brief History of Time has become a landmark volume in science...
After the First Three Minutes: The Story of Our Universe

After the First Three Minutes: The Story of Our Universe

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The evolution of our Universe and the formation of stars and galaxies are mysteries that have long puzzled scientists. Recent years have brought new scientific understanding of these profound and...
Achilles in the Quantum Universe: Definitive History of Infinity

Achilles in the Quantum Universe: Definitive History of Infinity

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In this guided tour down the centuries, Rich ard Morris shows how each new encounter with infinity has fu rthered the advancement of physics and mathematics. This is a mathematical...
Lost at Sea: Found at Fukushima

Lost at Sea: Found at Fukushima

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On a calm, tropical afternoon in the South Atlantic Ocean in April 1942, a British tramp steamer, the SS Willesden, was shelled, torpedoed and sunk by a German raider, the...
Australia's Granite Wonderlands: Rock of Ages' Intriguing Landscapes

Australia's Granite Wonderlands: Rock of Ages' Intriguing Landscapes

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This book is a celebration of landscape and life, and is a visual feast with 137 colour photographs. Granite landforms have fascinated people the world over from the earliest of...
The Gillett Model of the Real Universe

The Gillett Model of the Real Universe

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Come with me and explore the universe from the perspective of time, rather than spatially as we usually live our lives and see the world. Everything you see, everything beyond...
A Little Book of Coincidence in the Solar System

A Little Book of Coincidence in the Solar System

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Venus draws a beautiful pentagram around Earth every eight years. Jupiter's two largest moons draw a perfect four-fold flower. The Planets grandly play out the slow Music of the Spheres....
Sacred Geometry

Sacred Geometry

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Is there a secret visual language all around us? What's so special about the shape of the Great Pyramid? Why is there something so sixy about circles? How many ways...
Ninety Degrees North: The Quest For The North Pole

Ninety Degrees North: The Quest For The North Pole

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In the mid-nineteenth century the North Pole was a mystery. Some believed that it was an island of basalt in a warm crystal sea. Explorers who tried to penetrate the...