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A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe
Pub Date: Apr 1, 2012
Popular cosmology writers rarely restrain their sense of wonder, but readers who tolerate the science-fiction scenarios scattered throughout this account will not regret it.
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Facing the Ultimate Frontier
Pub Date: Feb 27, 2012
Astrophysicist Tyson, the director of Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, delivers a forceful, cumulative argument for space exploration even in the face of a disastrous economy.
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Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery
Pub Date: Feb 23, 2012
NASA "Mars Czar" Hubbard (Aeronautics/Stanford Univ.) draws an intimate picture of the Mars Exploration Program, which he fully revamped starting in 2000.
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Why Our Planet Is Unique
Pub Date: Dec 20, 2011
The British astrophysicist and prolific science writer presents a skillful, contrarian examination of the possibility of intelligent life beyond Earth.
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Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth
Pub Date: Apr 4, 2011
An up-to-the-minute look at the frontiers of the search for life outside Earth.
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Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
Pub Date: Jan 10, 2011
A superior account of how astronomers discovered that they knew almost nothing about 96 percent of the universe.
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