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Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
Alan Stern · Picador
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons' mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small... |
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Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon
Frank Close · Oxford University Press
Pages: 219
Format: Hardcover
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On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon.... |
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Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
Erich Hoyt · Firefly Books
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
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ASJA Writing Awards Recipient Honorable Mention Best Children's/Young Adult Nonfiction Book 2017 Erich Hoyt Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises In the Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, award-winning author and whale researcher Erich Hoyt takes readers into... |
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Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
Scott Kelly · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BEST SELLERA stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station - a message of hope for the future that will inspire for generations to come.The veteran of four spaceflights and the American record... |
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson... |
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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
Craig Childs · Pantheon
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, tracing the arrival of the First People in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates. This book upends our notions of where these people came... |
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The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
EUGENIA CHENG · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth worldIn a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic... |
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