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Astronomy: The Solar System and Beyond (with CengageNOW, Virtual Astronomy Labs Printed Access Card) 1 review
Michael A. Seeds
Brooks Cole, 2006
Beautiful Introductory Text
This book is a text aimed at the astronomy course that non-science majors might take in fulfillment of the requirement that they can't get out of college without at least one science class. As such, the book goes far beyond simply looking at the solar system and a few stars.
Perhaps the most important concept in the book is for the student to come away with a basic understanding of the ...
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Wide Open Spaces: Beyond Paint-by-Number Christianity
Jim Palmer
Thomas Nelson, 2007
Jim Palmer's critically acclaimed Divine Nobodies was only half the story - the deconstruction and shedding of a religious mentality that hindered his knowing God. In his next book, Jim takes the reader along into the wide open spaces of exploring and experiencing God beyond religion. Jim writes, "It is no secret that God can be lost beneath the waving banner of religion. Divine Nobodies is my story of how this happened to me. Sometimes you ...
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Beyond the Reflection's Edge (Echoes from the Edge) 57 reviews
Bryan Davis
Zondervan, 2008
It Keeps You Guessing
"Beyond the Reflections Edge" was unlike any book that I have read--and I am an avid reader. For once, I was not certain exactly how the story was going to end. The good guys had to win, of course, but since it is the first book in a series, there is no telling exactly were in the "fight" that the tale will end. The various twists in the story kept me interested from beginning to end.
One ...
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Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond99 reviews
Gene Kranz
Berkley Trade, 2001
Get this Candle lighted
Excellent account of the backstage of America's Space Program, you could really fill the atmosphere inside Mission Control,and the contribution made to it's success by a miriad of unknown Hero's.
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Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein8 reviews
John W. Moffat
Collins, 2008
Bringing Cosmology Back to Earth
For years, informed readers have looked on with increasing dismay as cosmology has drifted toward the shoals of absurdity, A powerful orthodoxy espousing such unproven and possibly unprovable exotica as strings, singularities, dark matter, and dark energy is threatening to turn the most noble of sciences into little more than mathematical game-playing. But now to the rescue comes John W. Moffat. ...
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The Abominable Snowman/Journey Under the Sea/Space and Beyond/The Lost Jewels of Nabooti/Mystery of the ... 8 reviews
R. A. Montgomery
Chooseco, 2006
Choose Your Own Adventure
These books are fantastic - I have fond memories of them from my childhood. As a school teacher, they are a wonderful read aloud. I let the children vote everytime there is a choice. They think they're great!
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Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future9 reviews
Jeffrey Bennett
Princeton University Press, 2008
Great Book
This book is very scientific in it's approach to the topic. I learned a lot of interesting facts about other worlds, the universe and biology. Very well written. Great book!
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Space and Beyond (Choose Your Own Adventure #3) 4 reviews
R. A. Montgomery
Chooseco, 2006
Exciting!
This book is one of the more creative ones in the Choose Your Own Adventure Series. Basically, YOU are born to parents of two different planets and you have to figure out which planet YOU want to be your home planet. I think this book really stands out in the series. I can remember being especially fascinated by it as a child. Most children wonder about outer space and aliens at some point, ...
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Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe 29 reviews
Michio Kaku
Anchor, 1995
Very interesting and within reach of ordinary folks like me...
I really liked this book. It found it easier to understand (and less gee-whiz) than Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe (paperback and CD). Kaku and his co-writer presented a very clear description of what hyperspace would look like to four-dimensional creatures such as ourselves. (This was the first clear layman's description I have read.) I only wish I understood better the quantum ...
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The Abominable Snowman/Journey Under the Sea/Space and Beyond/The Lost Jewels of Nabooti (Choose Your Own ...6 reviews
R. A. Montgomery
Chooseco, 2006
Start here!
If you are new to choose your own adventure, I recommend starting with
these 4. They are the first in the new series, and are all individual
books. I am pretty sure they are all reprints, and the art is definitely
new, but they are a great place to start as they cover a wide range of
topics. The bottom line is kids will eat these books up, not just because
they are about great topics, with ...
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Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond41 reviews
Nancy Conrad, Howard A. Klausner
NAL Trade, 2006
Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride To The Moon And Beyond
The book arrived within the scheduled delivery time in excellent condition.
Thank you,
Mark & Francine Keehnel
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Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System, Vol. 118 reviews
Robert Burnham Jr.
Dover Publications, 1978
A rare book to be cherished.
Robert Burnham, Jr., spent twenty years at Lowell Observatory participating in a proper motion survey. During his tenure, he wrote this mammoth 3-volume work covering nearly every object visible in 2- to 12-inch telescopes. Each chapter, covering one constellation (both northern and southern hemispheres), begins with a detailed list of all stellar objects (double stars, variable stars, and deep ...
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Beyond Varallan (Stardoc II)31 reviews
S. L. Viehl
Roc, 2000
The mindlessly pleasant journey with Dr. Grey Veil continues
I am again embarrassed to admit that I chewed this book up in a very short period of time; immediately following the first book in the series. First of all, you need to read StarDoc first in order to capture the mood and intent of this second novel in the series. I will repeat that this is not great fiction, but one of the most pleasant fictional journeys I have made in awhile. Mostly Sci-Fi, ...
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Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes11 reviews
Michael Benson
Abrams, 2008
Breathtaking photos of our Solar System
I am floored every time I open this book of pictures of our Solar System. The images are so amazing and clear. I sometimes wonder that these are actually our neighboring planets.
The main planets themselves are mind-blowing in and of themselves. Io is perhaps the single most jaw dropping moon - a planet in its own right - and evokes so much imagination. Gallisto is also a fascinating moon ...
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The Universe and Beyond9 reviews
Terence Dickinson
Firefly Books, 2004
A good general text for the beginning astronomer
A friend and I are taking an intro to astonomy course and this is one of the recommended texts. I can certainly see why. It's a very clearly written work with a heavy emphasis on planetary and solar astronomy and a lucid discussion of stellar objects visible with personal telescopes, subjects that the noviate astronomer is most likely to find of interest. The author also dedicates two chapters ...
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Life on Earth -- and Beyond: An Astrobiologist's Quest1 review
Pamela S. Turner
Charlesbridge Publishing, 2008
Real science - not science fiction
Dr. Chris McKay works for NASA as an astrobiologist, someone who studies extreme environments on earth in an attempt to answer the long-asked question of whether life can exist elsewhere in our universe. This book follows his journey to some of the most lifeless areas of Earth. He searches for tiny microbes in Antarctica, Chile, Siberia, and the Sahara Desert. The underlying theory is that if ...
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Beyond Geometry: Classic Papers from Riemann to Einstein (Dover Books on Mathematics)1 review
Dover Publications, 2006
Very interesting
There are many interesting articles in this collection. I shall give some highlights.
Helmholtz, "The Origin and Meaning of Geometrical Axioms". "We can ... infer how the objects in a pseudospherical world, were it possible to enter one, would appear to an observer whose eye-measure and experiences of space had been gained like ours in Euclid's space. Such an observer would continue to look ...
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Spaceflight: The Complete Story from Sputnik to Shuttle - And Beyond6 reviews
Giles Sparrow
DK ADULT, 2007
A great encyclopedia of space
A wonderful overview of the space program. The pictures are oversized and well presented. Good for the entire family or space enthusiast. I especially enjoyed the pages with diagrams that are packed with great information.
-Tahir Rahman, author of We Came in Peace for all Mankind: the untold story of the Apollo 11 silicon disc
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Beyond the Third Dimension: Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Higher Dimensions (Scientific American Library)7 reviews
Scientific American Library, 1990
Concise Well-Written And Beautifully Illustrated Work
Mathematical ideas, when first learned, tend to undergo a curious inner transformation. At the outset, some tangible representation is necessary to effectively latch onto the concept. Thereafter, the symbolic elaboration using the language of mathematics is sufficient to encompass not only that particular figure, but limitless others like it as well. The underlying geometry is still there, but ...
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Unclutter Your Life: Transforming Your Physical, Mental, And Emotional Space11 reviews
Katherine Gibson
Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2004
Gets You Thinking and Cleaning!
While reading each chapter, I couldn't wait to get started on "cleaning" the "clutter" that is in my way physically and mentally. It got me thinking and motivated to get rid of that "stuff" I've been hanging onto "just-in-case" I ever needed it again. At the end of each chapter, there are some very helpful tips for cleaning our clutter; they are easy to reference again and again when you need ...
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