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List Price: £12.99
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Author:
Ian Ridpath
By Dorling Kindersley
 So Simple, Even I Can Find What I'm Looking For!, 2004-05-13
I am one of those people who has trouble finding specific constellations, and is never quite sure whether I'm looking at Jupiter or Venus. I carry around little scraps of paper from the newspaper so I can figure out which planets are visible . . . but have a hard time reading the scraps in the dark. With this book, I can see when and where each planet will appear through 2012. I can also get all the help I need to know what constellations are up there now, and which ones will be present when. As a result, I can finally introduce the starry heavens in an appropriate way to younger people. I already know a lot about astronomy, but the night sky was beyond me. No longer! Whew! Although my four children did not get much help with the heavens from me, the grandchildren will receive great benefits from this resource. Even if you are good at identifying objects in the night sky, this book will be a valuable, convenient reference for you. Enjoy the lore that our ancestors appreciated by seeing new aspects of the night-time sky!
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Author:
Philip C. Plait
By John Wiley & Sons
Kieran Jordon-Price, President of Absolutley Nothing, and Winner of Absolutley No Awards., 2007-08-22
Im a complete layman in terms of science, but i wholeheartedly recommend buying this book. One of the best reads I've had in my lifetime. Well done Mr Plait!
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Author:
Tom Cunliffe
By John Wiley & Sons
Sextants made simple, 2007-08-24
I had tried and failed to understand celestial navigation with 2 other books - but this book and its excellent diagrams make the whole subject understandable. Highly recommended
List Price: £18.99
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Author:
R Poole
By Yale University Press
Engrossing study of how we view our home planet., 2008-12-11
I found this book an engrossing read - an intriguing look at how humans view our planet from afar. What I found most interesting was not just the story of how images have been taken of our planet from space, but also how the taking of such images has apparently been long anticipated in human history. Through studies of paintings and writings made before the Space Age, Poole shows that the impact of such images was anticipated long before the images were made. He goes on to discuss how the images, when made, seem to have made a deep impression on a burgeoning environmental and conservation movement. An interesting study of how the precise literalism of hard engineering can awaken nebulous, imaginative, creative free-thinking on a large scale.
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Author:
Milton D. Heifetz, Wil Tirion
By Cambridge University Press
The most productive half-hour in my garden, ever!, 2007-01-15
For years I've gazed up at the stars and wondered how I could start to find out about the constellations; if only I'd known about this book I'd have had my answer.
It's brilliant, half an hour in the back garden and I'd found the Big Dipper, Polaris, the Little Dipper, Cassiopeia, and several others. Similarly, for ten years I'd seen a series of three stars in the sky and wondered what they were, now I know; the belt of Orion!
Simple steps, clear diagrams, measuring techniques, everything that you need to start is here. If you want to get to know the night sky, you could do no better than start here.
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Author:
Michael A. Covington
By Cambridge University Press
 B&W???, 2008-08-29
Good book but seem's bit strange to make a book on photography in Black and White! Looking at Nebulars in black and white seems a little odd when the text is talking about colors?? But the book itself is very informative
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By Phaidon Press Ltd
Fascinating, 2006-07-28
I was completely amazed with this book. It really is fascinating getting a different perspective on everyday objects and I spent hours looking at all the photographs: the photo quality is excellent. The book makes an ideal present for anyone interested in either science or photography and you can go through it page by page or dip into it whenever you have a moment.
List Price: £20.00
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Author:
W. David Woods
By Praxis
An outstanding book, 2008-12-05
A fantastic book that is pitched at the level of the layman with some technical knowledge. This book contains all of the answers to all of the questions you would have on the subject of the Apollo project from a technical standpoint.
Once you pick it up, you will struggle to put it down.
Do not lend this book to anyone because you wont get it back!
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Author:
Martin Rees
By Phoenix
Just six numbers govern the shape, size and texture of our universe. If their values were only fractionally different, we would not exist; nor, in many cases, would matter have had a chance to form. If the numbers that govern our universe were elegant--1, say, or Pi, or the Golden Mean--we would simply shrug and say that the universe was an elegant mathematical puzzle. But the numbers Martin Rees discusses are far from tidy. Was the universe "tweaked" or is it one of many universes, all run by slightly different but equally messy, rules? This is familiar ground, though rarely so comprehensively explored. What makes Rees's book exceptional is his conviction that cosmology is as materialistic and as conceptually simple as any of the earth sciences. Indeed, "cosmology is simpler in one important respect: once the starting point is specified, the outcome is in broad terms predictable. All large patches of the universe that start off the same way end up statistically similar. In contrast, if the Earth's history were re-run, it could end up with a quite different biosphere." Rees demonstrates how the cosmos is full of "fossils" from which we can deduce how our universe developed, as...
One universe or many?, 2007-06-30
What an excellent book!
Martin Rees looks at six facets of the universe, and considers how changing any one of these parameters would lead to a very different type of universe to the we can see (and infer) all around us.
He explains complex ideas beautifully and elegantly. He helps the reader wonder if this universe was designed for our purposes (sorry chaps, we're not that important), or whether we evolved to take advantage of the conditions that were available.
And the logical extensions to his thinking and writing are really quite breathtaking. Has our universe expanded and crashed many times? Or is our view of just one universe simply limited and parochial? And if there are many universes, how would they form and what would they look like?
Rees using mathematics, physics and some creative and highly enjoyable thinking to talk us through these ideas.
And the idea that there is no chance of us being here?
Well ...you're almost right. But there's at least one universe full of difference between no chance and almost no chance ...
Makes you think, doesn't it?
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