Science:

The Martian Codex
More Reflections from Mars
Written by George J. Haas and William R. Saunders
Foreword by Greg Orme and Randolfo Pozos Ph.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $19.95

In this provocative book, The Cydonia Codex authors George J. Haas and William R. Saunders use archaeological research discoveries and photographs from NASA and other space programs to document the uncanny similarities between Martian and now-extinct Earth cultures. The Martian Codex begins with a review of the thirty-year history of documenting... Read more >

The New Solar System
Ice Worlds, Moons, and Planets Redefined
Written by Patricia Daniels
Foreword by Robert Burnham

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $35.00

Aimed at the popular audience by experienced astronomy author Patricia Daniels with contributions by former editor of Astronomy magazine Robert Burnham and highlighted by 160 photographs, diagrams and maps, this superb guide explores every corner of Earth’s planetary neighborhood, from the fiery sun at its center to the dark, icy realm... Read more >

National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky

Written by Howard Schneider
Foreword by Sandy Wood

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $21.95

Stargazing’s too much fun to leave to astronomers, but often we’re blinded by science—dry facts can easily turn enchantment into a chore. We just want to lie down, look up, and understand the heavens above. The National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky shows us how.

Authors Howard Schneider and Patricia... Read more >

The Day We Found the Universe

Written by Marcia Bartusiak

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $27.95

On January 1, 1925, thirty-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced the observation that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. This discovery dramatically reshaped how humans understood their place in the cosmos, and once and for all laid to... Read more >

The Day We Found the Universe

Written by Marcia Bartusiak

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $27.95

On January 1, 1925, thirty-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced the observation that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. This discovery dramatically reshaped how humans understood their place in the cosmos, and once and for all laid to... Read more >

Confessions of an Alien Hunter
A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Written by Seth Shostak

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $27.00

Aliens are big in America. Whether they’ve arrived via rocket, flying saucer, or plain old teleportation, they’ve been invading, infiltrating, or inspiring us for decades, and they’ve fascinated moviegoers and television watchers for more than fifty years. About half of us believe that aliens really exist, and millions are convinced they’ve... Read more >

Confessions of an Alien Hunter
A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Written by Seth Shostak

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $19.95

Aliens are big in America. Whether they’ve arrived via rocket, flying saucer, or plain old teleportation, they’ve been invading, infiltrating, or inspiring us for decades, and they’ve fascinated moviegoers and television watchers for more than fifty years. About half of us believe that aliens really exist, and millions are convinced they’ve... Read more >

The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space
"42 Questions (and Answers) About Life, the Universe, and Everything"
Written by Jim Lebans
Introduction by Bob McDonald

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $18.95

For everyone who’s curious about what’s new under (and over and around) the stars.

Douglas Adams famously pronounced in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that the answer to life, the universe, and everything was 42. Quirks & Quarks, whose approach to science owes almost as much to Adams as it does... Read more >

Planetology
Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System
Written by Tom Jones and Ellen Stofan

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $35.00

In a stunning and completely new view of the solar system, an astronaut and a geologist team up to investigate, through parallel views made possible by cutting-edge space technology, how the earth itself can help science unravel the mysteries of the heavens.

Noted planetary geologist Ellen Stofan and veteran astronaut Tom Jones... Read more >

Hubble
Imaging Space and Time
Written by David Devorkin and Robert Smith

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $50.00

In the spirit of National Geographic’s top-selling Orbit, this large-format, full-color volume stands alone in revealing more than 200 of the most spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope during its lifetime, to the very eve of the 2008 final shuttle mission to the telescope. Written by two of the world’s... Read more >

The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space
42 Questions (and Answers) About Life, the Universe, and Everything
Written by Jim Lebans
Introduction by Bob McDonald

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2008
Price: $18.95

For everyone who’s curious about what’s new under (and over and around) the stars.

Douglas Adams famously pronounced in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that the answer to life, the universe, and everything was 42. Quirks & Quarks, whose approach to science owes almost as much to Adams as it does... Read more >

Astronomy For Beginners

Written by Jeff Becan
Illustrated by Sarah Becan

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95

Each year as Earth cruises through space a number of amazing and remarkable events occur. For example, like clockwork, we’ll run head-on into asteroid and cometary debris that spreads shooting stars across our skies. On occasion we’ll get to watch the disk of the Moon passing the Sun, casting its shadow... Read more >

Archives of the Universe
100 Discoveries That Transformed Our Understanding of the Cosmos
Edited by Marcia Bartusiak

Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $18.95

An unparalleled history of astronomy presented in the words of the scientists who made the discoveries. Here are the writings of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Halley, Hubble, and Einstein, as well as that of dozens of others who have significantly contributed to our picture of the universe.

From Aristotle's proof that... Read more >

The Rock From Mars
A Detective Story on Two Planets
Written by Kathy Sawyer

Format: eBook
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $25.95

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The Planets

Written by Dava Sobel
Read by Lorna Raver

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $29.95

THE PLANETS is Dava Sobel's sweeping look at our heavenly galaxy. In the spirit of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel once again brings science and history deftly to life as she explores the origins of the planets and reveals the exotic environments that exist in each of these fascinating alien worlds... Read more >

The Planets

Written by Dava Sobel
Read by Lorna Raver

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $9.99

THE PLANETS is Dava Sobel's sweeping look at our heavenly galaxy. In the spirit of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel once again brings science and history deftly to life as she explores the origins of the planets and reveals the exotic environments that exist in each of these fascinating alien worlds... Read more >

Heavenly Intrigue
Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries
Written by Joshua Gilder and Anne-Lee Gilder

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2005
Price: $15.00

Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our understanding of the universe–and ended in murder.

One of history’s greatest geniuses, Kepler laid the foundations of modern physics with his revolutionary laws of planetary motion. But his beautiful mind was beset... Read more >

Heavenly Intrigue
Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries
Written by Joshua Gilder and Anne-Lee Gilder

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 14, 2005
Price: $15.00

A real-life Amadeus: Set against the backdrop of the Counter-Reformation, this is the story of the stormy collaboration between two revolutionary astronomers, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. That collaboration would mark the dawn of modern science . . . and end in murder.

Johannes Kepler changed forever our understanding of the universe... Read more >

The Cydonia Codex
Reflections from Mars
Written by George J. Haas and William R. Saunders
Foreword by Richard Hoagland and Dr. Mark Carlotto

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2005
Price: $18.95

In what can only be described as one of the most important archaeological and sociological discoveries in human history, The Cydonia Codex offers overwhelming evidence of aesthetic and symbolic design on the surface of the planet Mars. The authors' research encompasses over ten years of study and analysis of NASA photographs... Read more >

Orbit
NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth
Written by Jay Apt, Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $25.00

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Don't Know Much About the Universe
Everything You Need to Know About the Cosmos But Never Learned
Written by Kenneth C. Davis
Read by Oliver Wyman
Introduction by Kenneth C. Davis

Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 4, 2001
Price: $12.95

From the ancients who charted the stars, to Jules Verne and Flash Gordon, to The X-Files, Apollo 13, and Armageddon, people around the world have long been intrigued with the heavens and outer space. Don't Know Much About the Universe, the fifth title in this bestselling series, uses the now-familiar and... Read more >

Mars
Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet
Written by Paul Raeburn
Foreword by Matthew Golombek

Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2000
Price: $25.00

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