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• Author(s): Chris Lintott • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyA "riveting real-life Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (The Telegraph), told "with an engaging voice, a diverting sense of hum...

• Author(s): Lloyd Motz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyTrace the development of astronomy from early Greek stargazers to the ambitious pioneers: Brahe, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton - ...

• Author(s): Emma Chapman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: AstronomyHow learning to "listen" to the universe using radio waves has revolutionized our understanding of everything from gravity to little green men. ...

• Author(s): Paul Davies • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyRagnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. In The Last Three Minutes, Pau...

• Author(s): Caleb Scharf • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - Space ExplorationA leading astrobiologist argues that space travel is an evolutionary event at least as important as life's first journey...

• Author(s): Dimitar Sasselov • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyIn 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus fomented a revolution when he debunked the geocentric view of the universe, proving instead tha...

• Author(s): Steven Weinberg • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Physics - AstrophysicsA Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and ...