10 Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet)

A Guide to the Scientific Wilderness

Michael Hanlon

Science is littered with gaping holes, the elephants in the room of human understanding that simply won't go away. The questions that form the basis of this book are often ....

2007 Yearbook of Astronomy

Patrick Moore

This fully updated 2007 edition features a range of specially commissioned articles by some of the world's top astronomers, an authoritative collection of charts and ....

The Amateur Astronomer's Introduction to the Celestial Sphere

William Millar

This introduction to the night sky is for amateur astronomers who desire a deeper understanding of the principles and observations of naked-eye astronomy. It covers ....

Amazing Birds

A Treasury of Facts and Trivia

Roger Lederer

This beautifully illustrated book is a treasury of facts and information about the avian world. Aimed squarely at ....

Astronomical Sketching

A Step-by-Step Introduction

R Handy, DB Moody, J Perez, E Rix and S Robbins

There are two basic methods of recording astronomical images seen through the eyepiece of a telescope. Photography (these days, usually digital imaging with a CCD camera) is ....

Astronomy

A Physical Perspective

Marc Kutner

A comprehensive introduction to astronomical objects and phenomena. The text explains how and why astronomical phenomena occur, and how astronomers collect and interpret ....

Astronomy For Dummies

S Maran

From asteroids to black holes, from quasars to white dwarfs, this new edition of Astronomy For Dummies takes backyard stargazers on a grand tour of the universe. ....

Astronomy Hacks

Tips and Tools for Observing the Night Sky

Robert Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson

Why use the traditional approach to study the stars when you can turn computers, handheld devices, and telescopes into out-of-this-world stargazing tools? Whether you're ....

Astronomy in Depth

Gerald North

Astronomy in Depth fills the need for a textbook that covers pre-university level Astronomy courses (in the UK, the GCSE syllabuses) and provides numerical examples to ....

Astronomy with a Home Computer

Neale Monks

Here is a one-volume guide to just about everything computer-related for amateur astronomers! ....

Astrophysics in a Nutshell

Dan Maoz

A concise but thorough introduction to the observational data and theoretical concepts underlying modern astronomy, Astrophysics in a Nutshell is designed for advanced ....

Astrophysics is Easy!

A Complete Introduction for Amateur Astronomers

Mike Inglis

Astrophysics is a subject that is often - with some justification - regarded as extremely difficult, requiring at least degree-level mathematics as a prerequisite to ....

The Atlas of Climate Change

Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge

Kirstin Dow and Thomas E Downing

Today's headlines and recent events reflect the seriousness of climate change. Heat waves, droughts, and flooding are causing deaths among vulnerable populations, ....

Aurora

Observing and Recording Nature's Spectacular Light Show

Neil Bone

This new book addresses a gap in the literature, offering an explanation of the aurora's causes, how the occurrence of major events may now be predicted, and how amateur ....

The BBC Natural World Collection - DVD

Edited by Tim Martin

Originally conceived as The World About Us by Sir David Attenborough back in 1967, the series has remained popular ever since. This specially compiled selection features six ....

Bang! The Complete History of the Universe

Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott

Rock legend and experienced amateur astronomer Brian May joins the legendary expert Sir Patrick Moore to tell the story of the Universe from the moment time and space came into ....

A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe

MS Schneider

Big Bang

Simon Singh

As well as explaining what the Big Bang theory actually is, Singh addresses why cosmologists believe that it is an accurate description of the origin of the universe. ....

Binocular Astronomy

Stephen Tonkin

This book contains everything an astronomer needs to know about binocular observing. The book takes an in-depth look at the instruments themselves. It has sections on evaluating ....

Bumblebees

Oliver E Prys-Jones and Sarah A Corbet

Bumblebees are attractive and likeable insects and the most amenable to study. Their behaviour is readily observed and they form ideal subjects for field studies. This book ....

A Buyer's and User's Guide to Astronomical Telescopes & Binoculars

James Mullaney

Both beginning/novice amateur astronomers (at the level of Astronomy and Night Sky magazine readers), as well as more advanced amateur astronomers (level of Sky & ....

CCD Astrophotography: High-Quality Imaging from the Suburbs

Adam Stuart

This book details an approach to the problem of getting high-quality astronomical images under light-polluted conditions. The book is for amateur astronomers interested in CCD ....

Calibrating the Cosmos

How Cosmology Explains Our Big Bang Universe

Frank Levin

This book explains in clear, non-mathematical language the measurements and the interpretation of the resulting data that have led to the current understanding of the ....

Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection

An Extraterrestrial Perspective

Carl Sagan

Reproduction of Sagan's Cosmic Connection, a daring view of the universe, which rapidly became a classic work of popular science and inspired a generation of scientists ....

The Chilling Stars

A New Theory of Climate Change

H Svensmark and N Calder

Scientists agree that over the last century the earth has become warmer. But do we really know why this has happened? A deftly written and enjoyable read, "The Chilling ....

Collapse

How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined temples of Angkor Wat, the ....

Collins Bird Guide

Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterstrom and Peter J Grant

Written by one Europe's leading ornithologists and illustrated by two of the world's finest bird illustrators - Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom ( with a translation by ....

Collins Gem Guide: Stars

The easy guide to identifying the constellations

Ian Ridpath

A guide in mini-pocket book format to the night sky showing you both the sky as it changes month by month and details of the main constellations and the movement of the ....

Collins Tree Guide

Owen Johnson and David More

Published in the same format as the bestselling Collins Bird Guide, the Collins Tree Guide is a definitive, fully-illustrated guide to the trees of Britain and ....

Collins Wildlife Gardener

Stefan Buczacki

The ultimate gardening book for all wildlife lovers, written by the leading expert in the field. This book debunks the myth that you need to grow a jungle to attract ....

The Comet Sweeper

Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition

Claire Brock

The Comet Sweeper is the incredible story of Britain's first female professional scientist - Caroline Herschel. ....

The Complete CD Atlas of the Universe

Richard Harshaw

The first major observing guide for amateurs since Burnham's Celestial Handbook. With finder charts of large-scale and unprecedented detail, in both normal and mirror-image ....

Concise Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland

M Townsend and P Waring

Nearly all the resident and migrant British and Irish species of macro-moths have been illustrated and described in this portable guide. Concise field descriptions written by ....

Constellations: A Glow-in-the-Dark Guide to the Night Sky

Chris Sasaki

Long ago people gazed into the night sky and created star pictures - and mythical stories to explain them. Today we call these ancient star pictures constellations. This ....

Contact with Alien Civilizations

Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials

Michael AG Michaud

This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The ....

Coral

A Pessimist in Paradise

Steve Jones

While writing this book, Steve Jones had beside him the coral brooch that his sea captain grandfather brought back across the Indian Ocean as a gift for his wife. This ....

Cosmic Catastrophes

Exploding Stars, Black Holes, and Mapping the Universe

J Craig Wheeler

From supernovae and gamma-ray bursts to the accelerating Universe, this is an exploration of the intellectual threads that lead to some of the most exciting ideas in ....

The Cosmic Century

A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology

Malcolm S Longair

The twentieth-century witnessed the development of astrophysics and cosmology from subjects which scarcely existed to two of the most exciting and demanding areas of ....

The Cosmic Landscape

String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

Leonard Susskind

In his first book ever, the father of string theory reinvents the world's concept of the known universe and man's unique place within it. ....

The Cosmos

A Beginner's Guide

Adam Hart-Davis and Paul Bader

Adam Hart-Davis brings us the latest news from the boundaries of the universe. By travelling the world to interview scientists at the sharp end of astronomical research - ....

Cosmos

Carl Sagan

This work is the story of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution, transforming matter and life into consciousness, how science and civilization grew up together and the forces ....

Creating and Enhancing Digital Astro Images

Grant Privett

The book will, in jargon-free blow-by-blow terms, describe how to create the best astronomical images you can with the digital camera equipment at your disposal. It will ....

The Curious History of Relativity

How Einstein's Theory of Gravity Was Lost and Found Again

Jean Eisenstaedt

Black holes may obliterate most things that come near them, but they saved the theory of general relativity. Einstein's theory was quickly accepted as the true theory of gravity ....

DK Handbook: Stars and Planets

Ian Ridpath

Describes and illustrates each of the planets in the Solar System, explains many of the basic concepts and offers expert advice on the best methods and equipment for ....

Dark Side of the Moon

The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest

Gerard DeGroot

Reveals how NASA cashed in on the Americans' thirst for heroes in an age of discontent and became obsessed with putting men in space. This work explains why the American space ....

Dark Side of the Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Cosmos

Iain Nicolson

The Data Book of Astronomy

Edited by Patrick Moore

Provides full descriptions and meticulously checked facts about the planets, stars, galaxies, clusters, nebulae, and a whole host of practical information about how to make ....

Death by Black Hole

And other Cosmic Quandaries

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Readers of his essays in "Natural History" magazine recognise Neil deGrasse Tyson's talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with clarity and enthusiasm. ....

The Deep

The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss

Edited by Clare Nouvian

On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters-the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has ....

Destination Space: Making Science Fiction a Reality

Kenny Kemp

A Dictionary of Modern Star Names: A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations

Paul Kunitzsch

Sirius, Algol, Castor and Pollux, Mizar and Alcor: these names are well known to stargazers. But others ? Rasalhague, Vindemiatrix, Zubenelgenubi ? are obscure tongue ....

Digital Astrophotography

The State of the Art

Edited by David Ratledge

The CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) has revolutionised optical astronomy during the past 20 years, and specialised astronomical CCD cameras are now even more affordable, colour is ....

Discovering the Universe

William J Kaufmann and Neil F Comins

Discovering the Universe is the best-selling text for descriptive one-term astronomy courses (especially those with no mathematics prerequisites). Carried along by the ....

Distant Worlds

Milestones in Planetary Exploration

Peter Bond

This book recounts the epic saga of how we as human beings have come to understand the Solar System. The story of our exploration of the heavens, Peter Bond reminds us, began ....

Dragonflies

Peter L Miller

Plates by RR AskewThis fully revised edition also features colour illustrations drawn from Askew's The Dragonflies of Europe. All aspects of the natural history of this ....

E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

David Bodanis

A lucid, interesting, and concise explanation of Einstein's famous equation. ....

Earth From Space

Andrew K Johnston

Includes 300 spectacular satellite images: glaciers and forests, hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, the Grand Canyon and the Pyramids, rain forests and coral reefs, ecological ....

Earth Story - DVD

The Shaping of Our World

David Sington and Simon Lamb

Earth Story unravels the secrets of our planet and brings it alive. The series took three years to make, cost œ3 million and was filmed all over the world, from the craters ....

Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting

Edited by Catherine Rich and Travis Longcore

While certain ecological problems associated with artificial night lighting are widely known-for instance, the disorientation of sea turtle hatchlings by beachfront ....

Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath

CV Vishveshwara

"Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath" is a humourous and informal rendition of the story of gravitation theory from the early historic origins to the ....

Einstein's Jury

The Race to Test Relativity

Jeffrey Crelinsten

Dramatic story of how astronomers in Germany, England, and America competed to test Einstein's developing theory of relativity. Weaving a rich narrative based on extensive ....

The Elegant Universe

Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

B Greene

String theory proclaims that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe are reflections of one grand physical principle and manifestations of one single entity: ....

Encyclopedia of the Solar System

Edited by Lucy-Ann McFadden, Paul Weissman and Torrence Johnson

This self-contained reference provides a framework for understanding the origin and evolution of the solar system, historical discoveries, and details about planetary ....

Endless Universe

Beyond the Big Bang

Paul J Steinhardt and Neil Turok

This is the first serious challenge to the widely accepted 'Big Bang' model of the universe. According to 'Big Bang' theory, space and time sprang into existence fifteen ....

Epic of Evolution

Seven Ages of the Cosmos

Eric Chaisson

How did everything around us-the air, the land, the sea, and the stars-originate? What is the source of order, form, and structure characterizing all material things? These ....

Exploring Woodland: The Southwest of England

Edited by Lorraine Weeks and Graham Blight

"The South West of England" covers an amazing array of coastal and inland woodlands from the Forest of Savernake in Wiltshire down through Dorset, Somerset and Devon to Helston ....

The Fabric of the Cosmos

Space, Time and the Texture of Reality

B Greene

Fermat's Last Theorem

The Story of a Riddle that Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years

Simon Singh

This is the extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermat's Last Theorem is the most ....

Field Guide Edible Mushrooms of Britain and Europe

Peter Jordan

The fields, woods and gardens of Britain and Europe are home to a wide range of edible mushrooms, a number of which are not simply good but truly excellent to eat. ....

Field Guide to the Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters of the World

Derek Onley and Paul Scofield

Famous for their size and elegance in flight, albatrosses are familiar to anyone who has travelled through the southern ....

Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe

Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra

Identification guide to all resident and migrant dragonflies and damselflies in Europe, from the Arctic to the Sahara, including western Turkey, Cyprus, Morocco, Algeria, ....

Fly Me to the Moon

An Insider's Guide to the New Science of Space Travel

Edward Belbruno

When a leaf falls on a windy day, it drifts and tumbles, tossed every which way on the breeze. This is chaos in action. In Fly Me to the Moon, Edward Belbruno shows how to ....

Fossils

A Photographic Field Guide

Chris Pellant and Helen Pellant

This photographic field guide covers all classifications of fossils. Information given for each fossil includes its genus, characteristics, maximum or average size, ....

Fundamental Astronomy

Edited by Hannu Karttunen et al

"Fundamental Astronomy" gives a well-balanced and comprehensive introduction to the topics of classical and modern astronomy. While emphasizing both the astronomical ....

The Future of the Universe

AJ Meadows

There are many books that describe what we know of the past of the Universe, beginning with the Big Bang. But what of its future? ....

The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole

Fulvio Melia

Here, one of the world's leading astrophysicists provides the first comprehensive and logically structured overview of the many ideas and discoveries pertaining to the ....

Galaxies and How to Observe Them

Wolfgang Steinicke and Richard Jakiel

This book is a unique work satisfying the need for a modern, comprehensive review of all major aspects of galaxy observation. The book combines the physical background on the ....

Galaxies in the Universe

An Introduction

Linda S Sparke and John S Gallagher

This extensively illustrated book presents the astrophysics of galaxies since their beginnings in the early Universe. It has been thoroughly revised to take into account ....

Garden Natural History

Stefan Buczacki

A history of gardens in Britain with special reference to the evolution of different styles and the changing importance in them of native and exotic plant species. ....

Go Wild With Your Camcorder

How to Make Wildlife Films

Piers Warren

Whether you want to film wildlife as a fascinating hobby, or are hoping for a career as a professional wildlife film-maker, this book and a basic camcorder are all you need to ....

The Goldilocks Enigma

Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?

Paul Davies

The Goldilocks Enigma is Paul Davies' spectacular and eagerly awaited return to cosmology. Here he tackles all the 'big questions' and introduces the latest discoveries ....

The Grand Tour

A Traveler's Guide to the Solar System

Ron Miller and William K Hartmann

Completely updated and revised and drawing on discoveries made by Voyager I and II, Magellan, Galileo, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Mars Global Surveyor Mission and ....

Herschel 400 Observing Guide

Steve O'Meara

The Herschel 400 is a list of 400 galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters, picked from over 2,500 deep-sky objects discovered and catalogued by the great eighteenth-century ....

Hidden Treasures

Stephen James O'Meara

Stephen O'Meara's new and exciting observing guide spotlights an original selection of 109 deep-sky objects that will appeal to sky-watchers worldwide. His 'hidden treasures' ....

The Holographic Universe

M Talbot

How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera

Tony Buick

Since the advent of astronomical CCD imaging it has been possible for amateurs to produce images of a quality that was attainable only by universities and professional ....

Hubble

15 Years of Discovery

Lars Lindberg Christensen and Robert A Fosbury

Hubble: 15 Years of Discovery forms a key element of the European Space Agency's 15th anniversary celebration activities for the 1990 launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ....

Human Vision and The Night Sky

How to Improve Your Observing Skills

Michael P Borgia

This book brings the challenge and fun back to a hobby that goes stale far too quickly for many budding amateur astronomers. The book begins with teaching astronomers to use ....

Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Astronomy

Chris Kitchin

This could be the first dictionary of astronomy specifically written for practical amateur astronomers. In addition to definitions, it provides an invaluable reference ....

In Search of Dark Matter

Ken, McNamara, Geoff Freeman

The dark matter problem is one of the most fundamental and profoundly difficult problems in the history of science. Not knowing what makes up most of the mass in the Universe ....

In Search of Superstrings

John Gribbin

Since Einstein's time, a "theory of everything" - one coherent mathematical model that would encompass all the forces and particles of nature - has become the Holy Grail of ....

An Inconvenient Truth - DVD

Al Gore

A movie based on a PowerPoint presentation by a former presidential candidate may not sound exciting, but once An Inconvenient Truth hits its stride viewers may be ....

An Inconvenient Truth

The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it

Al Gore

The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives. Our climate crisis may at times appear to be ....

Infinity Rising: A Personal View of the Universe

Nik Szymanek

Insects of Britain and Western Europe

Michael Chinery

Over 2000 of the most commonly observed and most distinctive insect species of Britain and western Europe, from all orders and most families, are illustrated in this essential ....

An Introduction to Astrobiology

Edited by Iain Gilmour and Mark A Sephton

Compiled by a team of experts, this textbook has been designed for introductory university courses in astrobiology. It starts with a detailed examination of how life ....

Introduction to Astronomical Photometry

Edwin Budding and Osman Demircan

Completely updated, this second edition gives a broad review of astronomical photometry to provide an understanding of astrophysics from a data-based perspective. It explains ....

An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution

L Susskind and J Lindesay

Over the last decade the physics of black holes has been revolutionized by developments that grew out of Jacob Bekenstein's realization that black holes have entropy. Stephen ....

An Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology

Jerzy Plebanski and Andrzej Krasinski

General relativity is a cornerstone of modern physics, and is of major importance in its applications to cosmology. Plebanski and Krasinski are experts in the field and here ....

An Introduction to Modern Cosmology

Andrew Liddle

A concise, accessible introduction to this exciting and dynamic subject. ....

An Introduction to the Sun and Stars

Edited by Simon F Green and Mark H Jones

Compiled by a team of experts, this textbook has been designed for elementary university courses in astronomy and astrophysics. It starts with a detailed discussion of our ....

The Isles of Scilly

Rosemary Parslow

About 30 miles south-west of Land's end is the low group of rocks and islands that form the Isles of Scilly. Mysterious, romantic and beautiful, they have long exercised the ....

Just Six Numbers

The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe

Martin Rees

How did a single 'genesis event' create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble - here on Earth, and perhaps on other worlds-- into ....

The Labyrinth of Time

Introducing the Universe

Michael Lockwood

Discusses relativity theory and quantum physics, introducing and explaining the ground-breaking ideas of Newton and Boltzmann, Einstein and Schroedinger, Penrose and ....

Ladybirds

M Majerus and P Kearns

This book enables enthusiasts to pursue their studies of British ladybird natural history further. It provides details of their biology and keys for identification, and ....

Life in the Universe: A Beginner's Guide

Lewis Dartnell

The study of life and its existence in the universe, known as Astrobiology, is now one of the hottest areas of both popular science and serious academic research, fusing ....

Lonely Minds in the Universe

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Giancarlo Genta

The possibility that humans are not alone in the Universe and might in the future come in close contact with other intelligences is one of the most intriguing questions of ....

Lunar and Planetary Rovers

The Wheels of Apollo and the Quest for Mars

Anthony Young

This book fills a need for a complete history of the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on Apollo 15, 16 and 17, drawing on many photographs never before published. It also tells the ....

Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide

Martin Mobberley

This book de-mystifies the jargon of webcams and computer processing, and provides detailed hints and tips for imaging the Sun, Moon and planets with a webcam. It ....

Mass Spectrometry

Principles and Applications

E De Hoffmann and V Stroobant

Provides an overview of the principles, theories and key applications of mass spectrometry. This book describes various instrumental aspects of mass spectrometry: ....

Meltdown

The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians and the Media

Patrick J Michaels

Why is news about global warming always bad? Why do scientists so often offer dire predictions about the future of the environment? In Meltdown, climatologist Patrick ....

Meteors and Meteorites: Origins and Observations

M Beech

The earth is bombarded both day and night by meteoroids and meteorites. These wayward bodies - small fragments derived from ageing comets and the collisions between asteroids ....

The Monthly Sky Guide

I Ridpath and W Tirion

The classic beginner's guide to the night sky, now in full colour throughout. ....

The Moon

Resources, Future Development and Settlement

D Schrunk, B Sharpe, BL Cooper and M Thangavelu

This extraordinary book details how the Moon could be used as a springboard for Solar System exploration. It presents a realistic plan for placing and servicing telescopes on ....

Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

Andrew Smith

More Small Astronomical Observatories

Edited by Patrick Moore

Almost every serious amateur astronomer knows the benefit of having a fixed observatory of some sort - it saves a vast amount of time and effort during every observing session ....

The Motion Paradox

The 2,500-Year-Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space

Joseph Mazur

Mrs Moore in Space

Gertrude L Moore

A whimsical view of life on other planets by the late Gertrude Moore, mother of famous astronomer Patrick Moore, who provides the foreword. Her drawings and descriptions are ....

Mushrooms

Roger Phillips

The culmination of over thirty years' work, this authoritative and superbly illustrated reference work is packed with the most up-to-date information and original photographs. ....

Nature's Calendar

A month-by-month guide to the best wildlife locations in the British Isles

Chris Packham

Bill Oddie showed you how to watch wildlife, now Chris Packham shows you where. In this tie-in to a 40-part BBC 2 series, "Nature's Calendar", Chris gives you insider knowledge ....

Nebulae and How to Observe Them

Steven Coe

Up-to-date information for amateur astronomers. Details observing techniques for practical astronomers, working with a range of different instruments. ....

The New Cosmic Onion: Quarks and the Nature of the Universe

FE Close

New Theories of Everything

John D Barrow

Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe? The quest for ....

The New Worlds

Extrasolar Planets

Fabienne, Encrenaz, Thérèse Casoli

Offering an engaging and complete story of the hunt for new worlds, this volume fully details the detection and exploration of extrasolar planets. It examines the very wide ....

Night Sky Tracker

A Handbook and Logbook for Amateur Astronomers

Leslie Alan Horvitz

Glow-in-the-dark cover. ....

Nightwatch

A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe

Terence Dickinson

This is the fifth edition of this established introduction to astronomy, but the first edition with UK specific content. With more than 600,000 copies in print since its ....

No Nettles Required

The Reassuring Truth about Wildlife Gardens

Ken Thompson

In this illuminating book, Ken Thompson explains that encouraging wildlife is actually entirely compatible with ordinary gardening, costs next to nothing, and is almost ....

Observational Astronomy

D Scott Birney

The long-awaited second edition of this well-received textbook gives a thorough introduction to observational astronomy. Starting with the basics of positional ....

Observing the Moon

The Modern Astronomer's Guide

Gerald North

Written by an experienced and well-known lunar observer, this is a hands-on primer for the aspiring observer of the Moon. Whether you are a novice or are already experienced ....

On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy

SW Hawking

Stephen Hawking brings together the greatest works by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Einstein, showing how their pioneering discoveries changed the way we see the ....

Origins

How the Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe Began

Steve Eales

In the last decade, there has been a revolution in observational astronomy, which has meant that we are very close to answering three of the four big `origin questions', of ....

Out of This World

Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics

Stephen Webb

Stephen Webb, author of WHERE IS EVERYBODY?, takes the interested amateur on a thrilling and enlightening tour of the amazing, even bizarre, new ideas of modern physics, ....

Parallel Worlds

The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos

Michio Kaku

Getting a grip on the creation and ultimate fate of the universe is one of the great scientific stories of the twentieth century. In the twenty-first, the story is expanding ....

Patrick Moore on Mars

Patrick Moore

Patrick Moore tells the full story of Mars revealed, from the early myths to the present day. ....

Patrick Moore on the Moon

Patrick Moore

Sir Patrick Moore is the undisputed expert on the stars and planets. His first "Guide to the Moon" was published more than fifty years ago, and reprinted many times; amid all ....

Pattern Asterisms

A New Way to Chart the Stars

John A Chiravalle

Since the very beginning of astronomy, people have looked up sky and constructed patterns - the constellations - out of the almost random scattering of stars in the ....

Philip's Astronomy Dictionary: An Illustrated A-Z Guide to the Universe

Edited by John Woodruff, Neil Bone and Storm Dunlop

Presents a comprehensive A - Z dictionary, covering various aspects of astronomy. This work contains more than 1,000 entries, ranging from aberration and ablation to Zond and ....

Philip's Astrophotography

An Introduction to Film and Digital Imaging

HJP Arnold

Capturing the night sky in photos is usually assumed to be the domain of specialists, but Arnold opens this seemingly remote area to anyone with an interest in photography. ....

Philip's Atlas of Stars and Planets

A Beginner's Guide to the Universe

Ian Ridpath

Philip's Complete Guide to Stargazing

Robin Scagell

"Philip's Complete Guide to Stargazing" is an inspiring introduction to observing the night sky, written by Robin Scagell, author of the Philip's bestseller "Stargazing with ....

Philip's Guide to Stars and Planets

Patrick Moore

This is a new edition of Sir Patrick Moore's practical and popular "Guide to Stars and Planets". This latest edition has been updated with new information from the Cassini ....

Philip's Moon Map (Tube)

Presented in a large format, this is a map of the near side of the Moon. It names and indexes more than 500 physical features - craters, seas, mountain ranges, peaks, valleys ....

Philip's Planisphere: Northern 51.5 Degrees

British Isles, Northern Europe, Northern USA and Canada

Turn the disc to reveal the stars visible from your location on any night of the year. The 51.5N and 35S editions of this practical hour-by-hour tracker come with their own ....

Philip's Pocket Star Atlas