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The Possibility of Life Searching for Kinship in the Cosmos — Jaime Green

The Possibility of Life Searching for Kinship in the Cosmos

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Essays

On The Shoulders Of Giants — Stephen Hawking

On The Shoulders Of Giants

Stephen Hawking

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Essays

Primary Phenomenal Astronomy For Teachers And General Readers How To Study, And How To Teach It (1886) — Frederick Harold Bailey

Primary Phenomenal Astronomy For Teachers And General Readers How To Study, And How To Teach It (1886)

Frederick Harold Bailey

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Essays

My Remarkable Journey A Memoir — Katherine G. Johnson

My Remarkable Journey A Memoir

Katherine G. Johnson

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Essays

$The Joy of X A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity — Steven Strogatz$

The Joy of X A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

Steven Strogatz

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Essays

Calculating the Cosmos How Mathematics Unveils the Universe — Ian Stewart

Calculating the Cosmos How Mathematics Unveils the Universe

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Essays

Big Bang The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and why You Need to Know about it — Simon Singh

Big Bang The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and why You Need to Know about it

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Essays

Three Hundred and Sixty Five Starry Nights An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year — Chet Raymo

Three Hundred and Sixty Five Starry Nights An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Essays

The Science of Science Fiction The Influence of Film and Fiction on the Science and Culture of Our Times — Mark Brake

The Science of Science Fiction The Influence of Film and Fiction on the Science and Culture of Our Times

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Essays

The Disordered Cosmos A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred — Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

The Disordered Cosmos A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Essays

Decoding The Universe 2 — Ian Beardsley

Decoding The Universe 2

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Essays

The Known Unknowns The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos — Lawrence M. Krauss

The Known Unknowns The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos

Lawrence M. Krauss

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Essays

Simplified Celestial Navigation — P. V. H. Weems

Simplified Celestial Navigation

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Literary Collections

Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology — Charles H. Kahn

Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology

Charles H. Kahn

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Literary Collections

Astronomicon: Volume 5, Liber Quintus — M. Manilius

Astronomicon: Volume 5, Liber Quintus

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Literary Collections

On the Heavens — Aristotle

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Literary Collections

American Practical Navigator — Nathaniel Bowditch

American Practical Navigator

Nathaniel Bowditch

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Literary Collections

When It Was Light The Message from the Stars — Henry Lee Stoddard

When It Was Light The Message from the Stars

Henry Lee Stoddard

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Literary Collections

Moon In Praise of the Silver Lamp of Night — Paula Rees

Moon In Praise of the Silver Lamp of Night

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Literary Collections

The Nature of Space A Metaphysical and Aesthetic Inquiry — Irene Rice Pereira

The Nature of Space A Metaphysical and Aesthetic Inquiry

Irene Rice Pereira

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Literary Collections

International Organizations and Space Cooperation — Leonard E. Schwartz

International Organizations and Space Cooperation

Leonard E. Schwartz

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Literary Collections

Letters from an Astrophysicist — Neil deGrasse Tyson

Letters from an Astrophysicist

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Themes: Space Science • Astronomy • Literary Collections

The Kumulipo A Hawaiian Creation Chant — Martha Warren Beckwith

The Kumulipo A Hawaiian Creation Chant

Martha Warren Beckwith

Themes: Space Science • Essays • Literary Collections

Moonfire The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 — Norman Mailer

Moonfire The Epic Journey of Apollo 11

Themes: Space Science • Essays • Literary Collections

Fans of The Planets by Dava Sobel will find 24 titles here, all united by Space Science, Astronomy, Essays. Authors represented include Jaime Green, Stephen Hawking, Frederick Harold Bailey, Katherine G. Johnson, and others.

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