NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 27, 2012
"An enthusiastic, persuasive case to start probing outer space again.
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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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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 23, 2012
"A lucid, concentrated appreciation of the technological, political and scientific imperatives that guide the nation's approach to Mars."
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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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 2, 2010
"A delightful, illuminating grab bag of space-flight curiosities."
Popular-science writer Roach (
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, 2008, etc.) entertainingly addresses numerous questions about life in outer space.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 4, 2011
"An excellent preview of what may be the next big scientific breakthrough."
NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 10, 2011
"Panek delivers vivid sketches of scientists, lucid explanations of their work and revealing descriptions of the often stormy rivalry that led to this scientific revolution, usually a media cliché, but not in this case."
A superior account of how astronomers discovered that they knew almost nothing about 96 percent of the universe.
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NONFICTION
Released: 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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