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A Short History of Astronomy from Earliest Times Through to the Nineteenth Century
Berry, Arthur
ISBN: 0486202100
Dover Publications New York 1970 Reissued
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback 550 g; XXXII, 442, 18 pages (the last being a catalogue of selected Dover books); includes general index, index of names, authorities and books for students, and illustrated with 104 text figures and diagrams, some being reproductions of art works, some of photographs. In original illustrated paperback binding. Slightly rubbed across the top edge, otherwise without damage. This Dover edition was first published as an unabridged and unaltered republication except for the substitution of new portraits of those in the original edition, which was published in 1898. Astronomy Very Good
Price: 14.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0224139 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A Brief History of Time; From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Hawking, Stephen W.
ISBN: 0593015185
Bantam Press London 1989 Reprint
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Hard Cover 500 g.; X, 198 pages, aknowledgements, introduction by Carl Sagan, aknowledgements, glossary and index. The text is illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Ron Miller. Blue coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping and discoloration to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Browning and faint foxing to the top text block edge. Very light age toning to the internal text. Colour photographic dustwrapper, of Stephen Hawking, against a gray coloured background with black and white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges and some browning of the dustwrapper panels. Remains of a sticker can be seen to the lower right-hand corner of the front fold over panel. Browning to the top edge of the dustwrapper. A history of time, in laymans' language. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Science -- Cosmology Good
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0107691 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel
Ley, Willy
Chapman & Hall London 1954 Third Printing
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 750 g; XII, 436 pages, and illustrated with XXII black-and-white photographs, and 64 line drawings, but I am unable to locate the folding atmospheric chart "located in the back of the book", having performed a page by page search, and failed to find any trace, or indication of its existence. The book is indexed, it has appendices and notes by Doctor Werner Von Braun as well as an extensive bibliography. There is on the front end page a gift inscription dated 1958 from mum and dad . The dust jacket is slightly darkened on the spine section, and has a short tear with associated chipping at the top left hand corner of the rear panel. Otherwise in very good condition. A digital image can be provided to confirm condition. "The author of this book, who was an early member of the German rocket Society, gives a fascinating account of the past, present and future of Rockets. With Teutonic thoroughness he begins with the ancient Greeks and seems to omit no scrap of knowledge he possesses." -- front fold over blurb Aeronautics -- Space Very Good
Price: 32.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0225012 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Guide to the Moon
Moore, Patrick
Eyre & Spottiswoode London 1953 Second Impression
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Hard Cover 390 g.; VI, 7-224 pages, aknowledgements, foreword by H. Percy Wilkins, list of plates, list of figures, four appendices, index to formations referred to in the text, and general index. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, showing the full moon. The text is illustrated with 12 black-and-white photographs and 13 black-and-white figures -- all within the text. At the rear of the text is a four panelled foldout of the Moon and its features, with a guide to its features. Loosely inserted in to the book is a black-and-white photograph, taken 19/11/58, of Alfons. Black coloured cloth boards with silver titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing and some bumping to the backstrip edges and to the book corners. Marking and some fading to the cloth of the book. Light browning and some foxing to the text block edges. Browning and foxing to the endpapers and browning to the internal text. Gift inscription to the top left-hand corner of the free front end paper. Illustrated dustwrapper, with red and yellow background and black titles to the front panel and backstrip. The dustwrapper is in sad shape. Heavy rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the backstrip edges. There is a small piece missing from the top backstrip edge. Numerous small tears with creasing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges and there are two large tears to the top dustwrapper edge measuring 2.5 " each. There is a tear to the lower edge of the rear dustwrapper panel measuring 4.5 " with associated creasing. A 1.25 " tear to the lower right-hand corner of the front panel has also associated creasing. There is a hole in the rear spine hinge, 4 inches from the lower dustwrapper edge. Rubbing and a little fading to the dustwrapper panels. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over panel, lower right-hand corner. A small tear to the lower edge of the front fold over panel with associated creasing. Browning to the dustwrapper fold over panels and there is staining and marking to the verso of the dustwrapper. A previous owner has supported the more serious tears with tape, tape still in situ, again to the verso of the dustwrapper. One of the England's Premier astronomers looks at the Moon -- in the early 1950s. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Astronomy Good
Price: 18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0107872 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Something New under the Sun; Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age
Gavaghan, Helen
ISBN: 0387949143
Copernicus Books New York 1998 First Edition
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo 1/4 Cloth and Boards 675 g.; XX, 300 pages, preface by author, aknowledgements, chronology, notes and sources and index. Dark blue coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with the occasional black-and-white photograph throughout the text. 1/4 dark blue coloured cloth backstrip with gilt titles. 3/4 dark blue coloured board. A few dust marks to the top text block edge. Illustrated dustwrapper with blue background and yellow and white titles to the front panel and backstrip. A hint of ruffling to the dustwrapper edges. A history of the earliest satellites, and how scientists "... turned the dreams of science fiction writers into indispensable technology." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Science -- Cosmology Very Good
Price: 30.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0107878 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Evening Star; Venus Observed
Cooper, Henry S. F., Junior
ISBN: 0801849349
The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore and London 1994 First Paperback Edition
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Paperback 370 g.; XIV, 306 pages, last six pages blank intentionally, preface by author, maps and index. At the rear of the book 6 maps of Venus taken by the Magellan spacecraft . Illustrated front cover, with yellow and green titles to the front panel and peach and blue titles to the backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the other book edges. Handling marks to the lower text block edge and a little age toning of the other text block edges. In this book the author describes the spacecraft Magellan and its flight to our nearest planet neighbour -- Venus. He describes the launch and work of the scientists that kept the spacecraft on its course and of the information that is has sent back to earth about the "Evening Star". Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Science Good
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0107884 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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the Moonlandings: an eyewitness account with a foreword by Buzz Aldrin
Turnill, Reginald
ISBN: 052103535X
Cambridge University Press Cambridge, Britain 2006 First Paperback Edition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback 750 g; XX, 458 pages, includes appendices, indexed. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, cartoons, line drawings. And bound in colour illustrated paperback binding. The author joined the BBC in 1956 covering the launch of Sputnik 1 and founded so exciting that he made space reporting his specialty. As the BBC Aerospace correspondent, he spent the rest of his career covering all the manned space missions as well is planning commission such as Mariner, Pioneer, Viking and Voyager. Since leaving the BBC staff, he has continued to broadcast and write about space, and he created the first spaceflight directory. He is the only non-American to have been presented with NASA's Chroniclers Award for contribution to public understanding of the space program. -- page I Space Exploration -- Lunar Very Good
Price: 42.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0225380 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Other Worlds : The Solar System and Beyond
Trefil, James
ISBN: 0792274911
National Geographic Society Washington 1999 First Edition
Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Hardcover 1.5 kg; 256 pages, with glossary, and index. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs and black-and-white photographs of various solar and extrasolar features. Colour illustrated dust jacket. The book and jacket show no sign of damage.This book will weigh more than 1.0 kg when packed. Please enquire of the bookseller for an amended quote for the postage to destinations outside of Australia Cosmology Very Good
Price: 22.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0225818 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Seti Factor: How the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Is Changing Our View of the Universe and Ourselves
White, Frank
ISBN: 0802711057
Walker & Co New York 1990 First Edition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Hardcover 550 g; 250 pages, includes appendices, chapter notes, bibliography, indexed, with illustrated dust jacket. The book and the dust jacket have no damage. Please ask for a photograph to confirm condition. In the book the author looks at how the search for extraterrestrial life is changing our view of the universe, and our planet and ourselves. It includes interviews with Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan. Space Exploration Very Good
Price: 18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0226098 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The First Copernican : Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution
Danielson, Dennis Richard
ISBN: 0802715303
Walker & Co New York 2006 First Edition
8 vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Hardcover 600 g; VIII, 264 pages, includes chapter notes, indexed, and appendix. Illustrated throughout with contemporary black-and-white photographs and reproductions of drawings and art works etc. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Neither the book will the dust jacket show any sign of damage. This book is the first popular account of the life of Georg Jochen Rheticus -- Copernican muse, founder of modern trigonometry, and champion of new science at the threshold of the modern world. biography -- Astronomy Very Good
Price: 28.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0226106 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Beyond Earth: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Gallant, Roy A.;Sedeen, Margaret;Random House
ISBN: 0590074377
Four Winds Press New York 1977 First Edition
8 vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Hardcover 500 g; 192 pages, illustrated with black-and-white drawings and photographs, and includes a glossary and index. The book shows minimal signs of handling, the dust jacket has several tape repaired tears measuring approximately 1 inch each and other short tears that have not been attended to. A digital image can be provided to help assess condition. Space Exploration Very Good
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0226110 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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First Man : The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
Hansen, James
ISBN: 0743291077
Simon & Schuster New York 2005 First Paperback Edition
Large Format Paperback Paperback 1.1 kg; XIV, 770 pages, includes chapter notes, bibliography and index. 24 pages of black-and-white photography. Photographic illustrated paperback binding. The book shows no signs of damage. biography -- Astronautics Very Good
Price: 16.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0226115 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Inside Nasa: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program
McCurdy, Howard E.
ISBN: 0801844525
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. 1993 Second Impression
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 550 g; XIV, 216 pages, includes index, illustrated with various graphs and tables, illustrated dust jacket. Slight ruffling of the edges of the dust jacket otherwise in very good order. This book explores how an agency praised for its planetary probes and expeditions to the moon became noted for the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and a series of other malfunctions. Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, the author investigates the relationship between the performance of the United States space program and NASA's organisational culture. Space Very Good
Price: 25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0226124 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Spacecam: In Co-Operation With NASA
Hope, Terry
ISBN: 0715321641
David & Charles Newton Abbot, Devon 2005 Reprinted
Oblong 8vo Laminated Illustrated Boards 1.5 kg; show and 56 pages, illustrated with colour and black-and-white photography. Colour illustrated dust jacket matches the colour illustrated boards beneath. The book and dust jacket show no damage.This book will weigh more than 1.0 kg when packed. Please enquire of the bookseller for an amended quote for the postage to destinations outside of Australia photography -- Astronautics Very Good
Price: 26.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0226130 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Copernicus’ Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began
Repcheck, Jack
ISBN: 074328951X
Simon & Schuster New York 2007 First Edition
8 vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Hardcover 400 g; XVI, 240 pages, includes notes and select sources, and index. Illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs and art works, includes maps. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Neither the book nor the dust jacket show any sign of damage. "One of the transcendent geniuses of the early Renaissance, Copernicus was also a flawed and conflicted person. A cleric who lived during the tumultuous years of the early Reformation, he may have been sympathetic to the teachings of the Lutherans. Although he had taken a vow of celibacy, he kept at least one mistress." -- front fold over blurb biography -- Astronomer Very Good
Price: 24.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0226136 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Space Traveller’s Handbook; Everyman’s Comprehensive Manual Spaceflight
Freeman, Michael
ISBN: 0671961470
Sovereign Books New York 1979 First Edition
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Hardcover 900 g; 208 pages, with glossary, index, and chronology. Illustrated with either colour, or monotone photographs, and coloured line drawings. Photographic end pages, the dust jacket which was printed as a high-gloss mainly black background shows signs of faint scratching. Otherwise the book and dust jacket are in very good order. Evidently printed just before the first flight of the space shuttle, and is written from the perspective of 100 years after the first manned orbit. He gives the discerning traveller and all embracing view spaceflight, covering not only the sides of the solar system, but also the practical mechanics of rocketry and the training necessary for all prospective voyages. Space Exploration Very Good
Price: 18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0226754 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Spacecraft in Fact and Fiction
Harrison, Harry & Edwards, Malcolm
ISBN: 0896730190
Exeter Books New York 1979 First Edition
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Hardcover 900 g; 128 pages, including bibliography and index. Illustrated throughout with either monotone, or colour photography or art work. Colour illustrated dust jacket over original boards. Very slight rubbing at the tips of the fold overs, otherwise jacket shows no damage. The book is an informative and witty mixture of fact and fiction, with 150 illustrations ranging from the 17th century through to scenes from Close Encounters, and from rare photographs of the early rock pioneers to futuristic NASA space designs. Space Exploration Very Good
Price: 16.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0226755 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Secret Language of the Stars and Planets; A Visual Key to the Celestial Mysteries
Cornelius, Geoffery & Devereux, Paul
ISBN: 1857937015
Pavilion London 1990 First Australian Edition
Square Octavo Hard Cover 785 g.; VII, 8-176 pages, introduction by authors, glossary, bibliography, index and picture credits & acknowledgements. Illustrated endpapers showing stylised Moon and star against a purple background. The text is illustrated with copious colour photo graphs and illustrations along with charts and the occasional map. Purple coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Rubbing to the backstrip edges and book corners. Shelf wear to be lower book edges. Colour photographic dustwrapper with gilt, orange and white titles to the front panel and pink and white titles to the backstrip. A little creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. " The Secret Language of the Stars and Planets is the first illustrated book on the star is to combine astrology, astronomy, archaeology, myth, symbolism and signs. Including a major section on the astral, solar and lunar alignments of the sacred sites around the world, it reveals the manifold meanings that humankind has leading to the heavens." -- from the rear panel blurb. Digital image available upon request help assess condition. Mythology Good
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0108545 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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History of NASA; America’s Voyage to the Stars
Dewaard, E. John & Dewaard, Nancy
ISBN: 0861241827
Bison Books Greenwich, Ct. 1984 First Edition
Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Black Cloth 1.25 kg; 192 pp., index; numerous monotone, and colour photographs, and illustrations; colour illustrated dustwrapper. The dustjacket is rubbed along both top and bottom edges, and has several tape repaired tears. A picture can be provided to help assess condition.. " Going beyond the record of man's accomplishments to date, it covers the speculations of manned probes of the solar system, where there may conceivably be life in some form & the further possibility of traveling beyond our solar system to the stars. " This book will weigh more than 1.0 kg when packed, and extra postage will be requested for delivery outside of Australia. Aeronautics Very Good
Price: 24.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0227833 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Star World
de la Crommelin, A.C. (Andrew)
Collins London & Glasgow Not Stated
16mo - up to 6 ¾" tall - Sextodecimo Hard Cover 270 g.; 264 pages, The Nation's Library -- list, bibliography and index. Illustrated endpapers, being a stylised illustration of the Hermes (in green) on the paste-downs and green decorated circle with series title on the free endpapers. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of the author. Red coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed decoration and titling to the front panel and gilt decoration and titling to the backstrip. A little bumping to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Browning and faint foxing to the text block edges. Browning and offset tanning to the endpapers and browning of the internal text. Previous owner's name to the top edge of the free front and paper and address to the top edge of the half title page. The hinge has split between page 240 and 241 with the underlying webbing visible. A book on astronomy from approximately 1915. Part of the The Nation's Library Series which is ".. specialised information by the most capable and competent authorities, and every subject dealt with is bought right up to the point of its relationship to modern life and thought." From page 1. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Astronomy Good
Price: 16.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0108932 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Destiny or Chance: Our Solar System and Its Place in the Cosmos
Taylor, Stuart Ross
ISBN: 0521785219
Cambridge University Press Cambridge, Britain 2000 1st Paperback Edition
8 vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Softcover 400 g; XXII, 230 pages, indexed, with chapter notes, and illustrated with 33 drawings, or photographs. Includes a timeline/chronology. In original colour illustrated softcover binding, which is slightly rubbed on the rear panel, the book shows how the formation of the solar system occurred, and what events happened thereafter. Solar System Very Good
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0228991 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Brightest Stars: Discovering the Universe Through the Sky’s Most Brilliant Stars
Schaaf, Fred
ISBN: 9780471704102
John Wiley & Sons Inc New Jersey 2008 1st Edition
Large Format Paperback Softcover 500 g; VI, 282 pages, indexed, includes glossary, and list of the 200 brightest stars as well as other appendices. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, drawings, and graphs and charts. Slight rubbing of the front panel, otherwise in very good order. Astronomy Very Good
Price: 16.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0229077 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Archives of the Universe: A Treasury of 100 of Astronomy’s Historic Works of Discovery
Bartusiak, Marcy
ISBN: 0375713689
Vintage Books (Random House) New York 2006 1st Edition
8 vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Softcover 750 g; XVIII, 698 pages, illustrated with 9 black-and-white photographs within the text, some graphs and line drawings, and complete with chapter notes, bibliography, and index. In illustrated softcover binding. The book shows no damage. From Aristotle's proof of the earth is round to the recent paper that posited an exhilarating universe, this book contains 100 entries spanning the history of astronomy. Astronomy Very Good
Price: 16.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 0229103 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Many Worlds in One; The Search for Other Universes
Vilenkin, Alex
ISBN: 9780809095230
Hill and Wang New York 2006 First Edition -- 1 3 5 7 9 10
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Hard Cover 505 g.; VIII, 238 pages, last 3 pages blank, intentionally, prologue by author, notes, acknowledgements and index. Throughout the text there are numerous black-and-white grafts, illustrations and photographs. Black coloured boards with silver titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing to the book edges. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with gray and white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Minor rubbing to the dustwrapper edges. A book on the possibility, and theory, of many universes in one. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Cosmology Very Good
Price: 28.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0109265 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler
Dreyer, J.L.E.
Dover Publications, Inc. New York 1953 Second Edition
Large Format Paperback Paperback 510 g.; X, 438 pages, then a further 16 pages -- a catalogue of selected Dover books, foreword by W.H. Stahl, preface by author, supplementary bibliography and index. There are a few black and white line drawings throughout the text. Illustrated covers with white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the book edges and book panels. Light browning of the text of edges and internal text. This book was first published in 1906 under the title of " History of the Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler". This book is one of the only text to detail early astronomy from the ancient Egyptians, Greek, mediaeval, Islamic through to Thales, and is considered the standard text of its type. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Astronomy Good
Price: 14.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0109387 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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In Quest of Universe + CD
Kuhn, Karl F.;Kuhn;Koupelis, Theo
ISBN: 0763712299
Jones & Bartlett Pub Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 2001 3rd Edition
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Softcover 1.5 kg; 658 pages, illustrated with colour blind drawings, charts and diagrams, and photographs. Includes a CD in pocket at the rear of the book, CD pocket has been opened. Otherwise the book shows no damage. This book will weigh more than 1.0 kg when packed, and extra postage will be requested for delivery outside of Australia. astronomy -- Textbook Very Good
Price: 26.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 0229919 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Moondust : In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
Smith, Andrew
ISBN: 074757779X
Bloomsbury London 2005 1st Export Paperback Edition
Trade Format Paperback Soft Cover 500 g; X, 310 pages, with a select bibliography. The 1st page of the book has 12 small photographs in black-and-white of the 12 astronauts who went to the moon. Colour illustrated softcover binding. The book shows no damage. The Apollo moon program has been called the last optimistic act of the 20th century. Over a strange 3 year period between 1969 and 1972, 12 men made the longest and most eccentric of all journeys and all were indelibly marked by it. In this book the author sets out to find and interview the remaining moon walkers in order to learn how their lives and ours, were changed forever by their surreal adventure. -- Rear panel blurb biography -- Astronauts Very Good
Price: 16.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0230002 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Coming-Of-Age in the Milky Way
Ferris, Timothy -- Editor
ISBN: 0370313321
the Bodley Head London 1991 Reprint
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Softcover 900 g;; 496 pages, includes glossary, a brief history, chapter notes, bibliography, index, photographs, diagrams, charts, and illustrations. From Aristotle's crystalline celestial spheres to the latest quantum theories of the evolution of the universe, humankind has sought to comprehend the enormities of cosmic space and time. Coming of Age in the Milky Way, the long-awaited new book by award-winning science writer Timothy Ferris, is the story of that quest. Its eloquent, evocative narrative stretches from late prehistoric times when, writes Ferris, "the skies of our ancestors hung low overhead" down through Copernicus and Newton and Einstein to today's "supersymmetry" theories of spacetime. It interweaves majestic themes of astronomy, physics, religion, and philosophy with fresh and lasting portraits of the men and women who created what has been called our society's most priceless treasure its conception of the universe at large." Minor handling marks and rubbing at the corners of the paperback binding. Astronomy Very Good
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0230032 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Coming-Of-Age in the Milky Way
Ferris, Timothy -- Editor
ISBN: 0370313321
the Bodley Head London 1992 Reprint
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Softcover 900 g;; 496 pages, includes glossary, a brief history, chapter notes, bibliography, index, photographs, diagrams, charts, and illustrations. From Aristotle's crystalline celestial spheres to the latest quantum theories of the evolution of the universe, humankind has sought to comprehend the enormities of cosmic space and time. Coming of Age in the Milky Way, the long-awaited new book by award-winning science writer Timothy Ferris, is the story of that quest. Its eloquent, evocative narrative stretches from late prehistoric times when, writes Ferris, "the skies of our ancestors hung low overhead" down through Copernicus and Newton and Einstein to today's "supersymmetry" theories of spacetime. It interweaves majestic themes of astronomy, physics, religion, and philosophy with fresh and lasting portraits of the men and women who created what has been called our society's most priceless treasure its conception of the universe at large." Minor handling marks and rubbing at the corners of the paperback binding. Astronomy Very Good
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0230033 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Coming-Of-Age in the Milky Way
Ferris, Timothy -- Editor
ISBN: 0370313321
the Bodley Head London 1991 Reprint
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Softcover 900 g;; 496 pages, includes glossary, a brief history, chapter notes, bibliography, index, photographs, diagrams, charts, and illustrations. From Aristotle's crystalline celestial spheres to the latest quantum theories of the evolution of the universe, humankind has sought to comprehend the enormities of cosmic space and time. Coming of Age in the Milky Way, the long-awaited new book by award-winning science writer Timothy Ferris, is the story of that quest. Its eloquent, evocative narrative stretches from late prehistoric times when, writes Ferris, "the skies of our ancestors hung low overhead" down through Copernicus and Newton and Einstein to today's "supersymmetry" theories of spacetime. It interweaves majestic themes of astronomy, physics, religion, and philosophy with fresh and lasting portraits of the men and women who created what has been called our society's most priceless treasure its conception of the universe at large." Minor handling marks and rubbing at the corners of the paperback binding. Astronomy Very Good
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0230034 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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