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Profile Books. Very Good. 5.04 x 0.71 x 7.8 inches. Paperback. 2016. 240 pages. <br>Do Aliens Exist? And if they do - what would they look like? Where would they live? Would they be conscious beings ? And what would happen if they found us? These are the biggest questions we've ever asked - and here, Professor Jim Al-Khalili, theoretical physicist and host of BBC Radio Four's The Life Scien tific, ... .

Firefly Books. Good. Paperback. 2001. 160 pages. Cover worn<br>From the sprawling cities of California to Maine's island-flecked coast, from the glaciers of Alaska to t he beaches of Florida, here is the United States as you have neve r seen it before. America from Space takes you into orbit over the United States. You see what Space Shuttle astronauts see when ... .

Coronet. Good. 130mm / 198mm. Paperback. 1995. 378 pages. Cover worn. Text tanned<br>April 13, 1970. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert are hurtling towards the moon in the Apollo 13 spacecraft, when an explosion rocks the shi p. The cockpit grows dim, the air grows thin, and the instrument lights wink out. Moments later, the astronauts are forced to aban don ... .

Penguin Random House. Very Good. 129mm / 196mm. Paperback. 2018. 272 pages. <br>The new book from astronaut Tim Peake, the number one bestselling author of Hello, is this planet Earth? How does i t feel to orbit the earth ten times faster than a speeding bullet ? What's it like to eat, sleep and go to the toilet in space? And where to next - the Moon, Mars or beyond? Ask an Astronaut is Ti m's ... .

Octopus Publishing Group. Good. Hardcover. 2002. 0 pages. Cover worn<br>This kit, for stargazing in the southern hemisphere, contains Philip's Stargazing with a Telescope, Philip 's Southern Star Finder, Philip's Star Chart, and Philip's 35oS P lanisphere. .

Macdonald Educational. Good. 20cm. Paperback. 1977. 96 pages. <br>96 pages : 21 cm Includes bibliographical referenc es (pages 88-89) and index .

Readers Digest Press. Very Good. 29 x 21cm. Hardcover. 1987. 464 pages. <br> .

A. H. & A. W. Reed. Good. 28 x 19 centimetres. Hardcover. 1975. 159 pages. Dj ripped and worn<br> .

New Holland. Very Good. 320mm / 265mm. Hardcover. 2004. 192 pages. Dj worn<br>Astronomy is a look at what we know about t he universe and the ways in that amateurs can observe and learn m ore about the heavenly bodies. .

Pan. Very Good. Paperback. 1981. 93 pages. <br> .

Palmerston North: Massey University. Good. Paperback. 1985. 97 pages. Cover worn. Text tanned<br> .

Springer. Very Good. 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.75 inches. Hardcover. 1996. 569 pages. <br>Life Science studies in space were initially drive n by the need to explore how man could survive spaceflight condit ions; the effects of being launched un­ der high accelerations, e xposed to weightlessness and radiation for different periods of t ime, and returned to Earth in safety. In order to substantiate th e ... .

Bantam Press. Very Good. 234mm / 156mm. Hardcover. 1993. 181 pages. <br>Covering subjects ranging from the personal to the scientific, this is a collection of Stephen Hawking's essays and other pieces. They reveal him as scientist, man, concerned world citizen and imaginative thinker. A transcript of his conversatio n on Desert Island Discs is included. .

Souvenir Press. Good. 18 cm. Paperback. 1974. 190 pages. Cover worn<br> .

F. Watts. Good. 240mm / 160mm. Hardcover. 1980. 83 pages. Dj chipped and worn. Ex-library.<br>Discusses black hol es, what they are, why they exist, and the possible consequences they pose for our universe. .

Smithsonian Books. Very Good. 7.2 x 1 x 9.3 inches. Hardcover. 2017. 272 pages.<br>On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, th e most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard t he space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a vie w of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitiv e only to visible light. In Chandra's Cosmos, the Smithsonian Ast rophysical ... .

New York: Stein and Day. Near Fine. 24 x 16cm. Hardcover. 1984. 216 pages.<br>A distinguished astronomer presents technical, biol ogical, and social plans for survival and prosperity on terrestri al and artificial planets in this and other solar systems .

Doubleday. Good. Hardcover. 1982. 234 pages. Dj worn. Ex-library<br> .

Penguin Group. Very Good. 8.5 x 5.31 x 0.32 inches. Paperback. 2009. 128 pages.<br>BOOKS .

W.H. Freeman and Company. Fair. 286mm / 222mm. Paperback. 1997. 4th edition. 436 pages. Cover very worn and wrinkled. Spine cocked. No CD<br> .