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"Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium" by Carl Sagan. First Edition 1997 published by Random House, New York. Illustrations. Epilogue by Ann Druyan, References. Index. 241pp. Fine hardcover book with Fine dust jacket.

"Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe" by Ian Stewart. NY: Basic Books, 2016. First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Profile Books Ltd. Epilogue, Units and Jargon, Notes and References, Picture Credits and Index. 346pp. An ex-library book with all the usual markings although a tightly bound and clean book. Good+… Ler mais sobre este item

"The Discovery of Subatomic Particle s" by Steven Weinberg. Scientific American Library, an imprint of W.H. Freeman and Company. Hardcover 1983 First edition with blue boards with letters in white on the spine. (9.6" x 8.8"). Illustrations. Appendix. 206pp. Fine hardcover book with sunned dust jacket in Good condition with some short edge… Ler mais sobre este item

"The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein" by Abraham Pais. Soft-cover book (9" x 6") published in 1983 by Oxford University Press. First, thus. Frontispiece of Albert Einstein in 1896. An Einstein Chronology. Subject Index. 552pp. "Winner of the 1983 American Book Award in Science and the American Institute of Physics-U.S.… Ler mais sobre este item

The Star of Bethlehem: An Astronomer's View" by Mark Kidger. Third Printing 1999 published by Princeton University Press. Appendix: The Heavens above Bethlehem. Chapter Notes. Bibliography. 306pp. Fine hardcover with a Fine dust jacket.

"Our Universes" by Sir Denys Wilkinson. NY: Columbia University Press, 1991. First Edition. The George B. Pegram Lecture Series. 213 pages including Index. Fine hardcover with Fine dust jacket.

"The Ghost in the Atom" - A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics edited by P.C.W. Davies and J.R. Brown. Cambridge Universe Press soft-cover book - reprint 1999. Index. 157pp. Paperback in Fine condition. "Non-specialists will find this an attractive and thought-provoking book." --- Contemporary Physics.

Oxford University Press hardcover book "The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos" by Michael Rowan-Robinson. 1999 edition published in the United States and printed in Great Britain. Illustrations. Fine condition with Very Good dust jacket. The author is Professor of Astrophysics and Head of the Astrophysics Group at Imperial College, London.

Viking 2009 First edition. With illustrations. Hardcover book in Very Good condition with Very Good dust jacket with light rubbing. A Remainder copy with mark on the bottom edge. "As a boy in 1969, I was fascinated when man landed on the Moon. Now, forty years later, Craig Nelson has brought this gripping story to life.… Ler mais sobre este item

Bantam Books 3rd printing. With color illustrations. Good condition with small name/address sticker of former owner on the front free end-paper and extensive underlining. Very Good dust jacket with light edge rubbing. "The authors present the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe in nontechnical language marked by both brilliance and simplicity."

Random House 1979 reprint edition. With References and Index. 347pp. Hardcover book in Good condition with name inked through on the top and fore-edges and non-author gift inscription on the first page with an Acceptable dust jacket price-clipped with edge tears and rubbing. "The three giant figures in this book are Paul Broca, the mid-nineteenth-century French… Ler mais sobre este item

Near Fine hardcover 2004 edition published by Imperial College Press and World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte, Ltd. Printed in Singapore by Mainland Press. Illustrations. An unmarked, clean and tightly bound book with glossy pictorial boards.

Second Printing of this edition by MJF Books. Fine hardcover with Fine dust jacket. "Here is a collection of Einstein's most important writings on physics."

Soft-cover book edited by Stanley Schmidt and Robert Zubrin. First printing published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 1996. Very Good+ copy with a bit of cover edge wear.

Soft-cover book reprint by Bantam Books. Good copy with tanned edges and pages.

SIGNED - "Don DeYoung Ps 19:1 Heavens Declare God's Glory." Second Edition 2000 by Baker Books. Fine copy of this soft-cover although small impression from a sticker removal on the first page.

494pp.Hardcover book Fourth Edition 1985. Illustrated. With Appendixes, Glossary, and Index. 494pp. Very Good tightly bound and unmarked book with some light shelf wear to the glossy pictorial boards.

Fourth Edition soft-cover book with Glossary, Appendixes, and Index. Illustrated. 555pp. Interior clean and unmarked with covers lightly soiled - so, Good+ condition.

Soft-cover book 1985 Fifth edition. Illustrated. Appendix 1 - Suggested Reading, Appendix 2 - Metric and English Units of Length and Mass, Temperature Scales, and Relativistic Formula for Radial Velocity. Appendix 3 - Star Maps. Index. Very Good+ condition. The Merrill Earth Science Series.

Hardcover book Second printing 1985. With Illustrations and Charts throughout. Index. 397pp. Very Good+ clean and unmarked book with a Very Good- dust jacket with some edge rubbing. "Everything you need to know about purchasing and mounting telescopes and observing the sun, moon, stars, comets (including Halley's), and galaxies."