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Endurance: The Discovery of Shackleton's Legendary Ship
This is the astonishing visual record of a legendary find- the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, located 10,000 feet below the ice in Antarctica's Weddell Sea. A gripping narrative describes...
Maps, Annotated: The World's 300 Greatest Maps Explained
A guided tour of the world's most important and beautiful maps This glorious guided tour of cartographic history features more than 300 of the most famous and important maps of...
Materials In Space— Science, Technology And Exploration
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Author: Aloysius F. Hepp, Joseph H. Prahl, Theo G. Keith, Michelle G. Bailey, J. Robert FowlerBinding: HardbackPublisher: Materials Research Society, 2001Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis comprehensive...
One Giant Leap...: Extraordinary Story of the Moon Landings
1999 sees the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. One Giant Leap sees the story of that famous first moon landing, detailing the history of the US space...
The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook: (Or: How to Beat the Big Bang)
Free yourself from cosmological tyranny! Everything started in a Big Bang? Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why accept such a weird cosmos? For all those who wonder about this bizarre...
God's Secret Formula: Deciphering the Riddle of the Universe and the
A shattering discovery reveals the secret of the universe through a mathematical formula.
Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2: Selected Texts in
Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic...
Worlds Unnumbered: Search for Extrasolar Planets
Through four decades of space exploration and ever-better telescopes, astronomers have searched in vain, unable to find even a single planet orbiting any of the myriad of sunlike stars strewn...
Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter
The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal 'world tour' of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in...
We Are Branches
Caldecott winner Beth Krommes and Newbery Honor-winning poet Joyce Sidman team up in this singular celebration of a beautiful, fascinating shape in nature. A nonfiction picture book companion to their...
War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality
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Two bestselling authors first met in a televised Caltech debate on "the future of God," one an articulate advocate for spirituality, the other a prominent physicist. This remarkable book is...
Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Professor Sir Roger Penrose's groundbreaking and bestselling The Road to Reality (2005) provided a complete guide to the laws that govern our universe. In Cycles of Time, Penrose offers a...
Cornerstones: Subterranean writings; from Dartmoor to the Arctic
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Although mostly concealed, our bedrock geology profoundly determines what we see around us - not just our landforms, but the built environment too, from Aberdeen, often called the "granite city"...
Exploration Map by Map: From Migrations and Encounters to Voyages and
Follow in the footsteps of the world's greatest pioneers Discover the epic history of human exploration and migration, and the stories of fearless pioneers the world over, with this stunning...
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history. Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong...
Voyages That Changed the World
Voyages that Changed the World tells, chronologically, the stories of the most momentous sea voyages in history and, in doing so, provides an intriguing look at the unveiling of our...
Our Moon: A Human History
'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...
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian
Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton,...
Everest: Summit of Achievment
This magnificent volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent of the world's highest mountain, and chronicles the history of Everest exploration from the early years of the...
British Town Maps: A History
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Towns are complex and sophisticated creations. Mapping towns stretched cartographers' ingenuity to new heights of both artistic beauty and scientific exactitude as they strove to represent and communicate the physical...
Landscape Meanings and Values
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Down the Great Unknown
This was wild adventure, but it was also a journey with a practical purpose. Powell furthered the cause of modern science, seeing the Grand Canyon as a geological textbook which...
Earth Matters
Discover all about our incredible world and how to look after it A DK Made with Care book is created using the best ethical and environmental practices possible. Our back...
Berlin Now: The City After the Wall
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A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe 's most charismatic and enigmatic city It isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive...
The Times Reference Atlas of the World
Discover new places with authoritative atlases, beautifully designed and packaged. Tenth edition of this popular atlas from the prestigious and authoritative Times Atlas range. This world atlas contains the breadth,...
The Moon: A Visitor's Guide
Discover everything you need to know about the Moon in this entertaining visitor's guide! What's this floating high in the starry sky? We call it the Moon. But has it...
Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
'Amanda's story underscores the lasting power of speaking your truth, building a movement, and never losing sight of your dreams' Melinda French Gates A brave and imaginative memoir by the...
Stars and Supernovas
This work traces the development of stars from their formation through to their ultimate demise. By examining scientific theories, Iain Nicholson shows how stars develop witih the Universe, and explains...
Patrick Moore's History Of Astronomy
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Author: Patrick MooreBinding: HardbackPublished: MACDONALD & CO LONDON & SYDNEYCondition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerPatrick Moore's History Of Astronomy chronicles the fascinating journey of humanity's understanding of the...
The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time
Look out your window and see the moon, stars and distant planets. Light years away, it's easy to think that our lives and their existences will never intersect. Yet meteorites...
Out of this World and into the Next: Notes from a Physicist on Space Exploration
Author: Adriana Marais Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Humanity has always looked up at the night sky and wondered what lies beyond our world. Now, we are on the...
Footprints in the Woods: The Secret Life of Forest and Riverbank
Footprints in the Woods is John Lister-Kaye's account of a year spent observing the comings and goings of otters, beavers, badgers, weasels and pine martens. This family - Mustelidae -...
Trelawny's Cornwall: A Journey through Western Lands
'I can't think of a more enjoyable or more illuminating guide to Cornwall than Petroc Trelawny, who knows it intimately, loves it deeply, and shares it generously' - THE REVEREND...
Trelawny's Cornwall: A Journey through Western Lands
'I can't think of a more enjoyable or more illuminating guide to Cornwall than Petroc Trelawny, who knows it intimately, loves it deeply, and shares it generously' - THE REVEREND...
The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time
Look out your window and see the moon, stars and distant planets. Light years away, it's easy to think that our lives and their existences will never intersect. Yet meteorites...
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
*THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *THE BOOK EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT* 'I can say without fear of contradiction that Lue has played a central and indispensable role in forever...
Ending Hunger: The quest to feed the world without destroying it
"Nutritionists tell you to eat more fish. Environmentalists tell you to eat less fish. Apparently they are both right. It's the same thing with almonds, or quinoa, or a hundred...
Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
'Amanda's story underscores the lasting power of speaking your truth, building a movement, and never losing sight of your dreams' Melinda French Gates A brave and imaginative memoir by the...
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,...
A History of the Universe in 100 Stars
'Inventive [...] done beautifully' - TLS From the Big Bang to the Gaia Mission, this is a very personal history of the universe through the author's favourite 100 stars. Astronomer...
The Discovery of the Nile
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Recounts the many attempts to discover the source of the Nile and uses medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment era European maps to depict the history of the region
Big Pacific: An Incredible Journey of Exploration and Revelation
The Pacific Ocean has been the focus of our fascination for as long as we have lived beside and on it. It covers one-third of Earth's surface - greater than...
Blowfish's Oceanopedia: 291 Extraordinary Things You Didn't Know About
The seas of our planet cover more than seventy percent of the Earth, but still remain shrouded in mystery. We know more about the surface of the Moon than we...
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs,
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One of Library Journal 's 10 Best Books of 2015 Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an...
Violent Earth
This is an explosive guide to the dynamic forces that shape our planet. "Violent Earth" is a spectacular visual exploration of the some of the most awe-inspiring and dramatic events...
Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet
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Beginning at the moment of creation with the Big Bang, Here on Earth explores the evolution of Earth from a galactic cloud of dust and gas to a planet with...
Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
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With illustrations and maps, a witty and erudite account of the history of circumnavigation and how it has influenced the way we think about the Earth and ourselves. In the...
Red Nile: A Biography of the World's Greatest River
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From religion, to language, to the stories rooted in our faith and history books, the Nile River has proven to be a constant fixture in mankind's tales. In this dazzling,...