Space Books

This is a wonderful book, full of inspiration and love - give yourself a gift and buy this book!

I wonderful guide to opening your heart to God and seeing others as He does. I found it to be very helpful and easy to read. Don't miss this gem.

I found this book a great read. It covered little things not usually included in space books like what the astronauts heartrates got to during critical manoevers. I would recommend it to anyone interested in space.

This is one of the few good books that there is now, in my opinion, about space flight. Not only does it focus on every single detail of the american space program, but it also focuses on the russian space program. Have you ever wondered about just what happened after that orbit or just when that launch was? Just grab HEROES IN SPACE:FROM GAGARIN TO CHALLENGER to find out. This book is, in my opinion, one of the best books available on space flight right now.

If you or someone you know loves space, "Heores of Space" could very well be an excellent addition to your library. Written by DC Agle, "Heroes of Space" tells the history of America's manned space program from the its earliest -Project Mercury thru the moon landings and shuttle and into the future - space station and Mars missions. Agle does an excellent job of allowing the striking 3-D popups and astronaut quotes (of which their are many) to tell little known insights of the dramatic story of manned space flight. And if you need anything else to sell you, just press the cover. It contains an electronic chip which plays President Kennedy's historic 'go to the moon speech not because it is easy but because it is hard...' as well as sounds of a countdown and blastoff.

The COOLEST space book of this type I've ever seen! The pop-out spacecraft and astronauts brings the whole subject to life! The little flip-up and take-out books make it extra fun. Lots of info and photos! It covers space history from the Mercury flights to the future of space flight.

I was just beginning to read about Irish history, and was looking for a good book to start with, when I saw someone buying this handy little introduction. I promptly bought & read it myself, and wasn't in the least disappointed. I finished the book in a day, and yet, when I was done, I knew 10 times more about the subject than I had previously, enough to completely revise what I thought were my opinions.

This is a concise, well-written, and readable summary of the general course of Irish history. It's not quite "in-depth," but it's too thorough to be dismissed as a rough outline or anything similar. It's a sound elementary primer on a complex subject, and the perfect starting point for further, more detailed learning.

A REALLY GOOD BOOK TO GET THE GENERAL HISTORY OF IRELAND FROM A MORE OR LESS IMPARTIAL SOURCE. PROVIDES A VERY GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE SHAPING OF IRELAND'S PAST AND HOW IT INFLUENCES THE PRESENT.

We are using this book while studying about space and it is a nice teaching tool because it is packed with information and has really nice coloring pages.

I homeschool my son and next year planned on our science studies to revolve around space, astronomy and human history of space explorations. We are starting when mankind was first looking up at the sky in caveman days to modern day long ranging satelites sending back their data from far away. I think this nice "coloring/informational" book is going to be a big help and make it more interesting with the activities I have looked at in the book so far.

The books are wonderful, but if you think that the books are gonig to be like any other version of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, you are dead wrong. If you read the introduction to the books you know that each version is meant to be different than the others. That is the beauty of Douglas Adams work. They are all unique but all worth you time.

Okay, for those of you who haven't read the book yet but did watch the movie you guys missed out on a lot the movie didn't include all the scenes that I personally though was very well.
Now that that's out of the way. Douglas Adams in his one of his possibly best know books really out did himself. In this adventure a boring simpleton named Arthur Dent living on the planet we call earth has befriended a guy named Ford Perfect, who is not as he claimed from earth but from a planet called Betelgeuse. Where he was sent from to do research for "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe" (it's a book where it has everything and anything that you could possibly need to know about the universe). Ford tells Arthur that he isn't from around here. He isn't from Earth. In telling Arthur this he also tells him that the earth is about to end.
And since they have gotten to be really close friends he takes Arthur with him when he hitches a ride with the Vogan ships (these are what the aliens are called that destroyed our planet earth). Vogan's in particular don't like hitchhikers very much. So they kick them off the ship, shortly after they get on. And by pure chance they get picked up. And the story goes from there.
Now that I've told you how the book starts I'll leave it up to you to read the rest of the book. And if you read this book, then watch the movie. You'll see that the movie is hardly based on this incredible book .

This book is the funniest story I've ever read. Hogarth Peel is the reluctant hero in helping 3 lost aliens to get back home. The writing is great and the incidents the 4 find themselves in had me in stitches! Buy this book, you wont regret it!

what a surprise. A friend told me to read this book and I wasn't sure but after the first page I was hooked. The humour is really subtle and quite sarcastic which I love. I read it cover to cover and started again I laughed so much. The adventure in the story is exciting too and you want to keep reading. I hope there is a second installment and would recommend this book to anyone past the age of 9. Its light hearted and lots of fun!

If you have been waiting for a worthy successor to the time twisting novels of Madeline L'Engle, without the religious baggage that sometimes drag L'Engle's stories into the realm of preachy, you might enjoy Maiya Williams. Her children enjoy the wonders and paradoxes of time travel without being too much occupied with theology. Does anyone remember the novels of Edward Eager from the 1950s and 1960s? Those were frivolous entertainments with a group of siblings whoi honestly cared about each other, even when they were driving each other crazy. Ms. Williams gives us all that, and more. Eaxch one of her books is like injectine a whole library of historical information directly into your blood stream. Here you get the lives and loves of thje ancient Pharaohs, complete with some chilling scenes of imperial, pre-Cairo dynasty madness, as the children who went back into time into the French revolution, in Williams' previous prizewinner, THE GOLDEN HOUR, tumble back to a few decades before the birth of Christ. Cleopatra is a stunning queen, well aware of her own power, and she forms a good role model for our heroine Xanthe Alexander, who is mistaken by the "jewel of the Nile" for the reincarnation of a goddess. What a dilemma! The story gets more and more complicated as Rowan, Xanthe, Nina and Xavier realize that they have somehow stumbled into an alternate universe, where they daily bear the risks of running into alternate versions of their own selves! Plus, they must return to the scene of the crime (Egypt) in order to right things with Octavian. Kids who have seen and enjoyed THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT with Ashton Kutcher will thrill to this heady intellectual idea, for they find out that if you disturn one aspect of the past, such as killing a butterfly, it may mean that the future brings famines and earthquakes, metaphorically speaking. Some good comedy ensues in the ancient scenes, where the boys rebel against wearing the culturally approved loincloths of ancient Rome, referring to them as "diapers." They are being trained as gladiators, having adventures that would be denied to them in present day America, where boys are not exactly encouraged to do anything exciting except go to war overseas. Maiya Williams brings us right into the center of the action, a sort of Indiana Jones paradise filled with mummy cases and man eating lions, one desperate chase after another. And yet she never neglects the emotional core of the story, one in which sisters and brothers are constantly at war with each other, a loving war in which resentment, pity, and the golden rule are constantly shifting their priorities, like barber poles set up in a desert sand dune. These kids have spunk, and if you hate spunk, you're out of luck here. The rest of us will have a blast. If Nickolodeon or the Disney Channel really cared about kids, they'd be making mini-series out of THE GOLDEN HOUR and THE HOUR OF THE COBRA. I think these books would do well overseas, appealing to the same audiences world wide who love Tintin and Snowy. Here you get all that excitement and brain stimulation, but you get family love too--the one thing Tintin lacks. In the background is Cleopatra's love and rivalry with Octavian, a neat parallel to the modern day story. Xavier impersonates the god Osiris in one comical scene.

Delightful! I purchased this book for my young teenagers and found that not only they, but I couldn't put the book down until the last page. The historical references were just enough for young readers to get a sense of ancient Egypt without being bogged down in minute and tedious details, but what impressed me the most was the relationship between the siblings in the book. For anyone who has fought with feelings of sibling rivalry, this is a must read.

Good overview for the general reader how cosmological observational data is obtained, in this reference in the context of the cutting-edge Hubble space telescope.

One of the greatest achievements in the history of humanity with regard to observational astronomy has to be the Hubble Space Telescope, our first real opportunity to see the universe 'up close and personal', in the visual light spectrum (among other spectra) without the interference of the earth's atmosphere. Launched in 1990, there was a collective gasp when it was discovered that this remarkable achievement needed specs (not the construction-data kind, but the old-fashioned kind - eyeglasses)! Not long thereafter, a shuttle mission set forth to do the needed repairs, and since then the results have been stunning.

Carolyn Collins Petersen, an award-winning science writer with some specialty in astronomy, together with John C. Brandt, a researcher at the University of Colorado (he's even had an asteroid named for him), put together this early major book on the Hubble achievements. Their first chapter gives a brief history of the HST (Hubble Space Telescope) project, from concept to launch. They recount a narrative history of the first indications that there were problems, the excitement and the disappointment, as well as the correction. The sections on the history of observation and the technical specifications of the HST are interesting, as well, but the real glory is in the pictures.

Throughout the rest of the text, the authors put pictures from the HST of the major objects in the sky together with composite pieces and partial images. For some of the planetary images, the authors show side-by-side comparisons with some of the planetary exploration missions (Voyager, etc.), and even against the close-up images, HST fares well. The photography of stars in all their various life-stages, gaseous formations to final supernovae, are glorious and informative. The galaxy images give great and stunning detail of some of the most distant structures. Alas, even the HST has trouble discerning in detail objects such as quasars, which remain a mystery, but more data has been obtained than ever before.

The final chapter discusses topics such as distances, universal expansion, dark matter, and how the HST plays an observational role in collecting evidence in support of or variance to current theories on the universe. Petersen and Brandt discuss the general trends in cosmological thinking, accessible to the non-scientist and interesting to the scientifically trained.

The epilogue is a bit moot at this point, as the text written in the early 1990s only covered the time period up to 2002; however, the HST project is a big-budget item, which means it is a political item, and the budgetary concerns, both institutional (NASA-related) and governmental (will Congress and Presidential administrations support it?) are always a concern. Hubble continues to be a source of pride for the NASA community, and a source of great information for the astronomical community around the world.

This is a coffee-table book as well as an interesting scientific text.

Every time I had to put this wonderful book down, I couldn't wait to pick it up and find out what was going to happen next. It is exciting, fun, and interesting. You will love to read it. I enjoyed reading it to my son, He even stayed still long enough to hear the whole book. He love it too

I had this book when I was a little girl. I would read this book over and over again. I lost the book in my travels and havent been lucky enough to find it anywhere. If you can find this book. Read it, you will not be sorry.