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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
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In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson takes his ultimate journey...
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A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
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This landmark book is for those of us who prefer words to equations; this is the story of the ultimate...
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The Theory of Everything
by Stephen Hawking
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The Theory of Everything is a unique opportunity to explore the cosmos with the greatest mind since Einstein...
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The Universe
by Sherwin T. Wine
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Evolution begins with the beginning of the universe. The evolution of matter and energy Into atoms and molecules had to precede the evolution of DNA into cells....
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The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen Hawking
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One of the most influential thinkers of our time, Stephen Hawking is an intellectual icon, known not only for the adventurousness of his ideas...
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Rocket Boys
by Homer Hickam
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In this uniquely American memoir, Homer Sonny Hickam beautifully captures a moment when a dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers...
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A Briefer History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
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This is the origin of and the reason for A Briefer History of Time: its author’s wish to make its content more accessible to readers –as well as to bring it up-to-date with the latest scientific observations and findings.
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The Beginner's Guide to Astrology
by Nan de Grove
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The study of astrology remains one of the most complex and easily misunderstood tools for self-knowledge.
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Astronomy: The Heavenly Challenge
by Jack Arnold
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As optics improved, man began to see the solar system. Tycho Brahe in Denmark, Nicolaus Copernicus of Poland, Johannes Kepler of Germany, and Italy's Galileo all began to see a new relationship between the world and the stars
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Natalie Angier
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Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy with this ebullient guide to science by a Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author.
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The Planets
by Dava Sobel
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With her blockbuster New York Times best sellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel used her rare and luminous gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story to garner rave reviews and attract readers from across the literary spectrum.
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A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey
by Michael D'Antonio
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Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael D'Antonio captures the wackiness of the first year of the space race as the Americans scrambled desperately to match the Soviets and President Eisenhower intervened to guarantee that the space program would not be run by the military.
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Apollo 13: The Real Mission
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Features highlights of the actual voices and sounds of the Apollo 13 mission during the most critical times of their near disaster in outer space.
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandries
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson has a talent for guiding readers through the mysteries of outer space with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm.
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Dreams of a Final Theory
by Steven Weinberg
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In Dreams of a Final Theory, Steven Weinberg, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and author of The First Three Minutes, describes the grand quest for a unifying theory of nature…
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God's Equation
by Amir D. Aczel
Price: Digital Download ($19.95)
In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem, takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery.
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Life Beyond Earth
by Timothy Ferris
Price: Digital Download ($10.50)
The story of man's search for life elsewhere in the universe...
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Origins of the Universe
by Jack Arnold
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The story of the cosmos, its beginning and its changes through time, has been a topic of much speculation and myth. It also has attracted intense attention from scientists.
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Red Moon Rising
by Matthew Brzezinski
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On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon.
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Theories of the Universe
by Stephen Hawking
Price: Audio CD ($22.46)
The theoretical physicist shares his latest thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press.
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Too Far from Home
by Chris Jones
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In the 37 years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has seemed more and more a routine enterprise--at least until the shuttle "Columbia" blew up, and the "Challenger" before it. Now, this true-life adventure vividly captures the dangerous realities of space travel.
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