University of Chicago Press, May 2023. Hardcover. A new copy. A tour of Mars in the human imagination, from ancient astrologers to modern explorers. Mars and its secrets have fascinated and mystified humans since ancient times. Due to its vivid color and visibility, its geologic kinship with Earth, and its.....
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2017. Hardcover. Just like the title implies, Neil deGrasse Tyson condenses the essentials of the universe in this compact, quick to read book. Perfect for those of us that want to know, but simply do not have the time. A new copy. What is.....
National Geographic, August 2014. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. With images never published before, many with surprising colors and landscapes that make you want to spend your next vacation on Mars, this is the one and only book written in consultation with NASA scientists.....
Henry Holt and Co., September 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page one, Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2019. Hardcover. A new copy. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by revealing.....
Crown Books for Young Readers, April 2022. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Basic Books, September 2016. Hardcover. With beautiful illustrations and a detailed map, Sun Moon Earth has everything you need to get ready for the next solar eclipse. On April 8, 2024, millions of Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon: a total eclipse of the sun. In Sun Moon Earth, astronomer.....
Helix Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 355 pages. Illustrated. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with a tiny tear to one corner else fine. "Grinspoon clearly loves the subject of this exemplary work, the unfolding of our knowledge of 'Earth's Twin.'...His book is full of.....
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 364 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A preeminent writer and researcher in archaeoastronomy, Krupp has visited and photographed over 1,300 ancient and prehistoric sites all over the globe. He presents a......
Basic Books, March 1996. Hardcover. A very good copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Lothrop Lee & Shepard, October 1977. Hardcover.
Museum of Jurassic Technology, 1993. Trade Paperback.
University of California Press, 1916. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp 297-398, 1916. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Basic Books, September 2016. Hardcover. With beautiful illustrations and a detailed map, Sun Moon Earth has everything you need to get ready for the next solar eclipse. On April 8, 2024, millions of Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon: a total eclipse of the sun. In Sun Moon Earth, astronomer.....
Scribner, June 2019. Hardcover. Combining history, pop science, and in-depth reporting, a fascinating account of asteroids that hit Earth long ago, and those streaming toward us now, as well as how we are preparing against asteroid-caused catastrophe. One of these days, warns Gordon Dillow, the Earth will be hit by.....
Ballantine Books, October 1993. Trade Paperback. Cosmos, the widely acclaimed book and television series by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, was about where we are in the vastness of space and time. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is an exploration of who we are. How were we shaped by life's adventure.....
Back Bay Books, January 2017. Trade Paperback. The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an.....
Barron's Educational Series, January 1985. Trade Paperback.
Harper Perennial, July 2002. Trade Paperback.
Vintage Books, March 2010. Trade Paperback. The riveting and mesmerizing story behind a watershed period in human history, the discovery of the startling size and true nature of our universe. On New Years Day in 1925, a young Edwin Hubble released his finding that our Universe was far bigger, eventually.....
Simon & Schuster, July 1999. Hardcover. A look at the scientists who design and fly the spacecraft exploring the outer reaches of the solar system discusses unmanned missions to Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune.
Dover Publications, October 2012. Trade Paperback. A bridge between introductory and advanced technical treatments, this readable and authoritative translation from the French provides an excellent guide to observational astrophysics. Physics students and professionals will appreciate the text's mid-level approach, in which methods of research and observation receive as much attention.....
Back Bay Books, April 2015. Trade Paperback. Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and.....
Freight Books, November 2015. Trade Paperback. From the author of the highly acclaimed The Falling Sky, an outstanding collection of short stories on the theme of science and its impact on all our lives In stories by turns witty, accessible, fascinating, and deeply moving, Pippa Goldschmidt demonstrates her mastery of.....