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Astrophysics & Space Science eBooks

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  • How Space Works

    The Facts Visually Explained

    by DK ...
    Series series DK How Stuff Works
    Embark on an awe-inspiring and informative journey through our Solar System and beyond in this illuminating astronomy book!Discover how big the Universe is, why our view of the sky is constantly changing, what came before the Big Bang, and so much more in 3... 2... 1…. Blast Off!Inside the pages of this comprehensive guide to astronomy for beginners, you’ll discover:• Simple text and step-by-step ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

    “Extraordinary.… A feast of history, an expert tour through thousands of years of war and conquest.” —Jennifer Carson, New York Times Book ReviewIn this far-reaching foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-author Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Don't Know Much About the Universe

    Everything You Need to Know About Outer Space but Never Learned

    Series series Don't Know Much About Series
    Who dug those canals on Mars? What was the biblical Star of Bethlehem? Were the pyramids built by extraterrestrials?From the ancients who charted the heavens to Star Trek, The X-Files, and Apollo 13, outer space has intrigued people through the ages. Yet most of us look up at the night sky and feel totally in the dark when it comes to the basic facts about the universe.Kenneth C. Davis steps into ... Read more

    $8.49 USD $6.99 USD

  • The Search for Life on Mars

    The Greatest Scientific Detective Story of All Time

    With a focus of the Perseverance rover mission, here is the "Quintessential account of one of humanity’s most intriguing quests" (Pail Halpern, Medium), "A remarkable, timely, and up-to-date account of Mars exploration" (Leonard David, "Space Insider," Space.com).From The War of the Worlds to The Martian and to the amazing photographs sent back by the robotic rovers Curiosity and Opportunity, Mars ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet

    The New York Times bestseller: “You gotta read this. It is the most exciting book about Pluto you will ever read in your life.”—Jon StewartWhen the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page one, “Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New York.” Immediately, the public, professionals, and press were ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Return to Earth

    Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression.“We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator,” Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth, remembering Command Module Columbia’s abrupt descent into the gravity of the blue planet. With that splash, Aldrin ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wonders of the Solar System

    Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.In Wonders of the Solar System – the book of the acclaimed BBC TV series – Professor Brian Cox will take us on a journey of discovery where alien worlds from your imagination become places we can see, feel and visit.The Wonders of the Solar System – from the giant ice fountains of Enceladus to the liquid methane seas of Titan and from storms twice the ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • Mapping the Heavens

    The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos

    A theoretical astrophysicist explores the ideas that transformed our knowledge of the universe over the past century.The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is someone at the forefront of the research ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spaceman

    An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NASA astronaut Mike Massimino shares incredible true stories from space—a rare, wonderful world where science meets the most thrilling adventure.“Mike is a spaceman through and through; he tells how hard work can take you out of this world.”—Bill Nye the Science GuyHave you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that’s about to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • On the Origin of Time

    Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

    by Thomas Hertog ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar’s final thoughts on the cosmos—a dramatic revision of the theory he put forward in A Brief History of Time.“This superbly written book offers insight into an extraordinary individual, the creative process, and the scope and limits of our current understanding of the cosmos.”—Lord Martin ReesPerhaps ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Chasing Space

    An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances

    by Leland Melvin ...
    In this revelatory and moving memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, perseverance and grace that align to create the opportunities for success.Leland Melvin is the only person in human history to catch a pass in the National Football League and in space. Though his path to the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Comet

    What are these graceful visitors to our skies? We now know that they bring both life and death and teach us about our origins.Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin, nature, and future of comets, and the exotic myths and portents attached to them. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • How to Love the Universe

    A Scientist's Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World

    by Stefan Klein ...
    The bestselling author of The Science of Happiness delivers a book “suffused with genuine wonder and affection for the beauty of particle physics” (Foreword Reviews).A single rose suggests the sublime interdependence of all life. A sudden storm points to the world’s unpredictability. A marble conjures the birth of the cosmos.How to Love the Universe shows us how everyday objects and events can ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quantum Mechanics

    The Theoretical Minimum

    Series series The Theoretical Minimum
    First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has teamed up with data engineer Art Friedman to present the theory and associated mathematics of the strange world of quantum mechanics.In this follow-up to the New York Times best-selling The Theoretical Minimum, Susskind and Friedman provide a lively introduction to this famously difficult field, which attempts to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Shoot for the Moon

    The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11

    by James Donovan ...
    Learn why NASA astronaut Mike Collins calls this extraordinary space race story "the best book on Apollo": this inspiring and intimate ode to ingenuity celebrates one of the most daring feats in human history.When the alarm went off forty thousand feet above the moon's surface, both astronauts looked down at the computer to see 1202 flashing on the readout. Neither of them knew what it meant, and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Interstellar

    The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars

    by Avi Loeb ...
    “The world's leading alien hunter” —New York Times MagazineFrom acclaimed Harvard astrophysicist and bestselling author of Extraterrestrial comes a mind-expanding new book explaining why becoming an interstellar species is imperative for humanity’s survival and detailing a game plan for how we can settle among the stars.In the New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb, the long... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Road to Reality

    A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

    by Roger Penrose ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS**The Road to Reality is the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. It assumes no particular specialist knowledge on the part of the reader, so that, for example, the early chapters give us the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Black Holes

    The legendary physicist explores his favorite subject in a pair of enlightening, accessible, and cleverly illustrated essays for curious readers, originally delivered as BBC lectures.“It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science-fiction writers, but they are ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

    **A Financial Times Best Science Book of 2023 • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • A Scientific American 2023 Staff RecommendationA rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with the universe like never before.**Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn’s rings look from a spaceship sailing just above ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe

    The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science

    Discover how mathematical sequences abound in our natural world in this definitive exploration of the geography of the cosmosYou need not be a philosopher or a botanist, and certainly not a mathematician, to enjoy the bounty of the world around us. But is there some sort of order, a pattern, to the things that we see in the sky, on the ground, at the beach? In A Beginner's Guide to Constructing ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Black Holes

    And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

    **In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.'A jaunt through space history . . . with charming wit and many pop-culture references' – BBC Sky At Night Magazine**Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.The Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the centre ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Grand Biocentric Design

    How Life Creates Reality

    What if life isn't just a part of the universe . . . what if it determines the very structure of the universe itself?The theory that blew your mind in Biocentrism and Beyond Biocentrism is back, with brand-new research revealing the startling truth about our existence.What is consciousness? Why are we here? Where did it all come from—the laws of nature, the stars, the universe? Humans have been ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Future Minds

    The Rise of Intelligence from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe

    by Richard Yonck ...
    For readers of Michio Kaku and Stephen Hawking, the book readers have acclaimed as "A mega-comprehensive outlook at intelligence as convincing as it is surprising" and "A truly breathtaking forecast on the future of intelligence."With the ongoing advancement of AI and other technologies, our world is becoming increasingly intelligent. From chatbots to innovations in brain-computer interfaces to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars

    The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission

    The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time.Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force’s first female pilots. She was in the first class of women to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD