Astronomy and Space

James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,...

Craig Nelson / Rocket Men: The Epic Story Of The First Men On The Moon

A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankindAt 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in the presence of more than a million spectators who had gathered to witness a truly historic event. It...

Storm Dunlop / NIGHT SKY ALMANAC 2023 (Hardback)

A beautiful gift for anyone interested in the night sky.Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this beautiful companion to the night sky from Astronomy experts Collins.With the aid of easy-to-understand monthly calendars and...

Bob Berman / Cosmic Adventure: A Renegade Astronomer's Guide To Our World And Beyond (Hardback)

Have you ever wondered what happened before the Big Bang, or how we would colonize Mars, or what an alien invasion might really be like? Astronomer Bob Berman has, and in Cosmic Adventure, a collection of twenty-six profound to outrageous essays, he...

Trinh Xuan Thuan / The Secret Melody: And Man Created the Universe (Hardback)

If the cosmos is vast, says astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan, it is by no means silent. Nature, he writes, "delights in continuously sending us her notes of music." Like some far-off orchestra, it tantalizes us with fragments of a symphony, but the melody...

Anil Ananthaswamy / The Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology

In this deeply original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the telescopes and detectors that promise to answer the biggest questions in modern cosmology. Why is the universe expanding at an ever faster rate? What is the...

Carolyn Collins Petersen , John C. Brandt / Hubble Vision: Astronomy with the Hubble Space Telescope (Coffee Table Book)

The refurbished Hubble Space Telescope has revealed spectacular and intriguing details in every object it has turned its acute gaze upon. What discoveries has the HST made so far? And how does this telescope actually work? This lavishly illustrated...

Roger D. Launius / NASA and the Exploration of Space: With Works from the Nasa Art Collection (Coffee Table Book)

Chronicles the history of NASA and the U.S. space program in a definitive study featuring sidebar narratives from some of the most famous American astronaunts, analyses of the origins and growth of the program, and full-color illustrations from...

Joanne Baker / Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know (Coffee Table Book)

In this, the latest volume in the best selling 50 Ideas series, author Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of the universe for a general readership. From Heliocentrism to dark matter, and from Kepler’s laws of planetary motion and orbits to...

Fabrizio Mazzucconi / Atlas of the Skies (Coffee Table Book)

Nowadays we have stopped watching the sky. We are so submerged by our towns’ lights, constantly busy, hypnotized by the television, that we hardly have time to contemplate the sky at night. We forget the stars’ beauty, the planet’s slow...

Brian May , Patrick Moore , Chris Lintott / Bang! The Complete History of the Universe (Coffee Table Book)

Who knows what Brian May was thinking when he wrote "We Will Rock You" for Queen? As a lifelong astrophysics aficionado, he may have been thinking about the origins of the universe. He's certainly been thinking about it lately. May, a freshly minted...

Robert Stone, Alan Andres / Chasing the Moon (Large Paperback)

In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a...

Storm Dunlop / Night Sky

The first true beginner's guide to astronomy, Night Sky provides an introduction to the subject that is both colorful and accessible. Containing all the information you need to be able to recognize each constellation, this is the ideal companion to...

Martin Rees / Before the Beginning : Our Universe and Others

One of the most creative and original of contemporary scientists draws together recent advances in astrophysics and up-to-the-minute research to cast a piercing light on man's place in the cosmos.         All of our books are...

Charles Seife / Alpha and Omega : The Search for the Beginning and the End of the Universe (Hardback)

The astronomical community has been on tenterhooks awaiting the outcome of a set of experiments that should throw light on ultimate questions of the universe. This book unveils the results of these experiments.         All of...

Patrick Moore / Patrick Moore's Yearbook of Astronomy 2013 (Hardback)

This fully updated 2013 edition of this essential guide features a range of specially commissioned articles by some of the world's top astronomers, an authoritative collection of charts and astronomical data, and a special picture section featuring some...

Patrick Moore / Venus (Hardback)

Recent orbiting spacecraft with radar imaging systems are turning up new, intriguing, even disturbing information about our nearest neighbor. In age, size, density, and volume, Venus is most similar to our home planet. But there the similarity ends, as...

The Moon: 365 Reflections (Large Paperback)

A collection of proverbs, ancient and modern wisdom, meditations and poems to celebrateThroughout history, legend and myth, the Moon has symbolized immortality and eternity, enlightenment and adventure and has inspired poets, philosophers, astronomers...

Steven Squyres / Roving Mars : Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet (Large Paperback)

Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million...

Dava Sobel - A More Perfect Heaven (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the...

Thom Burnett / Who Really Won the Space Race?

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Tim Peake / The Astronaut Selection Test Book: Do You Have What it Takes for Space? (Large Paperback)

*The* puzzle book of 2018, as featured in the Times, Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Breakfast, and a Guardian Book of the Year pick.Have YOU got what it takes to be an astronaut?This book will help readers of all ages find...

Heather Couper / Big Bang (Coffee Table Book)

How did the universe begin? Once the ultimate mystery, all the evidence now points to our universe being born in circumstances of unimaginable power and fury, called the Big Bang. This event not only created the universe, but the whole of space and time...

Marek Kukula / The Intimate Universe

In this far-reaching guide to the ways the universe affects our daily lives, Dr Marek Kukula explains the myriad ways in which we are connected to the stars, how everything on Earth – from the ground beneath our feet to the technology...

Adrian Cox / The Universe of Adrian Cox (Hardback)

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Mark Thompson / A Down to Earth Guide to the Cosmos (Hardback)

To the beginner, the star-filled night sky can seem mysterious and unfathomable. But with this book as a guide the awesome nature of the Cosmos is brought down to Earth.Over the course of twelve chapters Mark Thompson, one of the presenters on BBC...

Judy Cannato / Radical Amazement: Contemplative Lessons from Black Holes, Supernovas, And Other Wonders of the Universe (Large Paperback)

 Twentieth century science completely revolutionized human understanding of the world, rewriting the story of the universe with exciting discoveries and theories--the big bang, the relativity of space and time, the accelerating expansion of the...

Christopher Potter / You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe (Hardback)

 You Are Here" is a dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it. It is the story of how something evolved from nothing, and how something became everything. It is the story of the greatest story ever told. Here, for the first...

João Magueijo / Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation (Large Paperback)

   What if the speed of light, now accepted as one of the unchanging foundations of modern physics, were not constant? Brilliant young physicist João Magueijo puts forth the heretical idea that light once traveled faster, in the very...

Patrick Moore / Mars (Large Paperback)

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Peter Grego / Philip's Solar System Observer's Guide

 A practical introduction to our "corner" of the universe. Aimed at users of binoculars and small to medium telescopes, Solar System Observer's Guide describes how to observe not only the planets but also the moon, sun, comets, meteors, asteroids,...

Dava Sobel / A More Perfect Heaven (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Robert Stone & Alan Andres - Chasing the Moon : How America Beat Russia in the Space Race - PB - BRAND NEW

In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a...

Paul C.W. Davies / The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe (Hardback)

 In 'The Last Three Minutes', Professor Paul Davies outlines the many current theories of how the universe may come to an end.  Or is it possible that the universe never will end, that the 'last three minutes' will never...

Richard Panek / Seeing and Believing : The Story of the Telescope, or How We Found Our Place in the Universe (Hardback)

   A deft and beautiful book! Panek has turned his considerable talent to the subject of telescopes, their history, and how they changed our universe, and he's hit a sweet spot of poetry and science. Seeing and Believing is about vision in its...

James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong

 Now a major film starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy and Kyle Chandler, directed by Oscar-winner Damien Chazelle, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America's most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong - the man...

Clarke, Arthur C - The Exploration of Space - HB 1st US Edition - 1951

Clarke gets quite a few things right. After introducing the reader to all the basic challenges of space travel, most, if not all, of which are still applicable today, he proceeds to speculate widely about the future of space exploration. He rightly...

Moving Into Space : The Myths & Realities of Extra Terrestrial Life - PB - 1980

A collection of 27 essays on mna's future off the earth, moving from the probable  to the wildly speculative, in five sections entitled Reaching Outward, Space Industries, Extraterrestrial Life, The UFO Phenomenon and Space Age Myths.Contributiosn...

Stephen Hawking / Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (Hardback)

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Duncan John / The Ultimate Guide to Stars and Planets (Large Paperback)

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Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter : A Drama of Science, Faith and Love (Hardback)

   From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost...