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Browse Books on Astronomy & Space Date Added (descending) Title Author Price (ascending) Price (descending) Date Added (descending)    290 Astronomy & Space Books (showing 271 to 300) Search within Books on Astronomy & Space Keyword/s:  Browse Australian Bookshops specialising in Astronomy & Space Books   Images of the Universe Stott, Carole (Editor) ISBN: 0521424194 Cambridge ; New York Cambridge University Press 1991      4to softcover 245pp colour & b/w illus. very good.  Price: 15.00 (AUD) Book Number: 37012  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Visions of Heaven: The Mysteries of the Universe Revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope Wilkie, Tom ISBN: 0340717343 London Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1998      Small 4to hardcover 205pp b/w & colour illus. very good / very good+ d/w. The Hubble Space Telescope's spectacular pictures of nearby planets, remote stars, and distant galaxies captured the public imagination in a way not seen since the heady days of the Apollo Space Program. In Visions of Heaven, we see their full range, from the stellar nurseries where young stars are hatched out of immense clouds of gas and dust, to the magnificent remains, glowing across billions of miles, of once-mighty stars. But Hubble has brought us more than just glorious pictures: it offers new insights into the cosmos, and with them, the glimmering of answers to some of the most fundamental human questions. What really happened "in the beginning?" Is there life on other planets? What does the future hold? To the astronomer's eye, each of the Hubble pictures may tell a clear story, but the casual reader needs a guide to see and appreciate the deeper order contained within the images. Now, Visions of Heaven presents these remarkable pictures with a concise narrative that reveals the thrilling and moving stories behind them.  Price: 25.00 (AUD) Book Number: 37373  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Stargazer’s Companion Blum, James K. ISBN: 0792452623 Mallard Press 1990      Oblong 4to hardcover 144pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.  Price: 18.00 (AUD) Book Number: 34867  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Window In the Sky Lawton, A T ISBN: 0715377574 David Charles 1979      8vo hardcover 223pp index, b/w illus. very good, owner's initials on fep. / very good d/w. Astronomical bodies. Observation from space vehicles.  Price: 15.00 (AUD) Book Number: 33398  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Coming of Age in the Milky Way Ferris, Timothy ISBN: 0385263260 New York Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1989      8vo softcover 496pp index, b/w illus. very good. From Publishers WeeklynThe ancient Egyptians regarded the sky as a kind of tent canopy. Thirty centuries later, astronomer William Herschel argued that the sun belongs to a huge cluster of stars (a galaxy, as we call it today) and charted great swaths of intergalactic space through a telescope. How the human species slowly awakened to the vast reaches of space and time is the story absorbingly told by popular science writer Ferris (The Red Limit, Galaxies). His narrative humanizes the scientific enterpriseGalileo emerges here as a careerist, and Johannes Kepler as a self-loathing neurotic. Although it covers well-trod ground, this remarkable synthesis makes broad areas of science accessible to the layperson, from Darwin's and Lyell's investigations of the age of the earth to modern physicists' quest for a perfectly symmetrical, hyperdimensional universe. BOMC alternate. nCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. nnFrom School Library JournalnYA In the first section, Ferris uses historical anecdotes to relate astronomical discoveries and the foibles of their discoverers in a successful attempt to show the ``big names'' of science as real persons, warts and all. The second section, on the history of space and time, is also well done, if lacking in the human details. The third section, which deals with cosmology and modern physics, uses a philosophical approach to discuss difficult material; the result is not easy to absorb, but it is... read more --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.  Price: 15.00 (AUD) Book Number: 29844  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Secrets Of The Sky Ruggieri, Guido Hamlyn: London, 1969.      4to. hardcover. 176pp. indexcolour & b/w illus. very good. / very good d/w.' '  Price: 22.00 (AUD) Book Number: 30201  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Race to Mars: The ITN Mars Flight Atlas Miles, Frank ISBN: 0333461770 London Macmillan, 1988      4to hardcover 192pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Includes bibliographical references.  Price: 18.00 (AUD) Book Number: 27982  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Meteorites and their origins McCall, G. J. H. (Gerald Joseph Home) ISBN: 0858850540 Melbourne Wren 1973      8vo hardcover 352pp index, b/w illus. very good, bookplate on fep. / very good d/w.  Price: 65.00 (AUD) Book Number: 26110  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Observing the Constellations Marten, Michael ISBN: 0855337486 Mitchell Beazley, 1989      4to hardcover 176pp colour illus. very good / very good d/w.  Price: 35.00 (AUD) Book Number: 27155  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Exploring the Moon Through Binoculars Cherrington, Ernest ISBN: 0432022104 Davies London, 1969      4to. hardcover. 211pp. index, b/w illus. good, / good d/w.  Price: 22.00 (AUD) Book Number: 24620  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Waystation to the Stars Foale, Colin ISBN: 0747273804 London Headline Book Pub Ltd August 1999      8vo hardcover 278pp index, colour & b/w plates. very good / very good d/w. When astronaut Michael Foale said good-bye to his family on May 16, 1997 to join the Russian space station Mir, it hadn't seemed like anything more than a routine mission. But within days of his arrival in space, everything started to go wrong. First there was a horrific collision, then a series of computer crashes which endangered the lives of the inhabitants trapped inside the ageing, orbiting module. Suddenly the dangers of space became terrifyingly real.nnAll the way through his ordeal, Michael - whose quick thinking and natural leadership quickly earned him a reputation as the hero of the mission - was communicating with his parents on a daily basis, giving them the exclusive, inside account of the events as they unfolded. His father Colin Foale, found himself becoming the mouthpiece on earth for the events that were happening 240 miles above him in space. As a former RAF pilot, Colin had first hand experience of the kind of split-second life or death decisions his son was facing in space. In this case, he could only watch as the events unfolded. In this gripping account of a real-life space adventure, Colin Foale has painted a moving portrait of courage in the most hostile environment imaginable. Through Michael's early interest in space, family tragedy, NASA selection and training, this is Michael's extraordinary story as told by the one man who knows him best. WAYSTATION TO THE STARS is the only account of the Mir crisis to give the truth behind the headlines.  Price: 28.00 (AUD) Book Number: 25393  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Night Skies. The art of deep space. Malin, David Sydmey, The British Council. 1998.      Square 8vo. softcover. 60pp. colour illus. near fine.  Price: 35.00 (AUD) Book Number: 22156  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     New Worlds For Old. Lunan, Ducan Sydney. Books For Pleasure., 1979.      4to. hardcover. 268pp. index. + colour plates. b/w illus. near fine. / good d/w wit 2 tears.  Price: 22.00 (AUD) Book Number: 7042  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     The Space Telescope Ghitelman, David New York: Gallery Books, 1989      Square 4to. hardcover. 143pp. index. colour illus. very good/good, lightly chipped d/w one tear.'  Price: 22.00 (AUD) Book Number: 20171  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Apollo and the Universe Butler S T (ed) Sydney. Shakespeare Head Press. 1967. First edition      8vo. hardcover. 422pp. b/w illus. very good/good, chipped d/w.  Price: 22.00 (AUD) Book Number: 20541  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Astronomy Explained Fanning, A.E. Macgibbon & Lee, London, 1963. First edition.      Siagne by author on title page. 8vo. hardcover. 189pp. index. + b/w plates. very good, boards slightly bent. / very good d/w.'  Price: 25.00 (AUD) Book Number: 20865  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Earth’s Aura Young, Louise B. Alfred A. Knopf New York 1977. First Edition.      Large 8vo. 305pp. index. + colour plates. illus. endpapers. very good+. / very good, lightly chipped d/w.  Price: 35.00 (AUD) Book Number: 6705  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Earth’s Aura Young, Louise B. Alfred A. Knopf New York 1977. First Edition.      Large 8vo. 305pp. index. + colour plates. illus. endpapers. very good+. / very good, lightly chipped d/w.  Price: 35.00 (AUD) Book Number: 6753  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     And There was Light- The Discovery of the Universe Thiel, Rudolf Andre Deutsch, London. 1958 1st edition      8vo. Hardcover. 396pp. + b/w plates. Index. Very good / good, lightly chipped, clipped d/w.  Price: 25.00 (AUD) Book Number: 5045  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Larousse Encyclopedia of Astronomy Rudaux, Lucien and G.E. Vaucouleurs Paul Hamlyn London.      second paperback impression 1967. 4to. 506pp. Index. Colour & b/w illus. Good solid copy with some wear to cover.  Price: 15.00 (AUD) Book Number: 4123  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates   290 Astronomy & Space Books         Go to page:    6   7   8   9   10