Neptune Books

• Environmental Issues
  Geography
  Environmental Policies
  Climate
  Nature
  Air Quality
   
  

  Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation (9th Edition)

  Carrying forthTom L. McKnight's well-known thematic focus on landscape appreciation, this best-seller fosters a solid understanding of Earth and its physical geography. Its clear, user-friendly ...  > read more
• Space Telescopes
  Space Exploration
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Space Policy
  Astronomy
  Nebulae
   
  

  Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope--and How to Find Them

  A superb guidebook described in Bookwatch as 'the home astronomer's "bible"', Turn Left at Orion provides all the information beginning amateur astronomers need to observe the Moon, the planets and a ...  > read more
• Mars
  NASA
  Space Policy
  Space Missions
  Solar System
  Space Exploration
   
  

  Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet

  The first photographic tour of the surface of another planet has now been accomplished. Those who thrilled to the lunar beauty of Full Moon and the IMAX smash Roving Mars will marvel at this awesome, ...  > read more
• Global Warming
  Climate
  Ice Ages
  Nature
  Early Climate
  Nature of Water
   
  

  After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC

  20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing ...  > read more
• Mathematics
  Mathematical Modeling
  Vegetarian
  Computer Modeling
  Psychology
   
  

  One Grain Of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

  Exotic, beautiful, and instructive, this "mathematical folktale" by author-illustrator Demi emerged from her love of India. The narrative and the evocative illustrations combine to create a real ...  > read more
• Moon
  Space Station
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Policy
  Space Missions
   
  

  First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

  "On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no ...  > read more
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  Apollo 13

  On April 13, 1970, three American astronauts were on their way to the moon when a mysterious explosion rocked their ship, forcing them to abandon the main ship and spend four days in the tiny lunar ...  > read more
• Space Probes
  Space Station
  Satellites
  Space Exploration
  Space Policy
  NASA
   
  

  Sputnik: The Shock of the Century

  On October 4, 1957, as Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pounds with only a radio transmitter inside its highly ...  > read more
• Moon
  Space Missions
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Behavioral Science
  Earth Science
   
  

  A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

  A decade in the making, this book is based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with each of the twenty-four moon voyagers, as well as those who contributed their brain power, training and ...  > read more
• Space Station
  Space Probes
  Space Policy
  Space Exploration
  Astronomy
  NASA
   
  

  Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space

  In the more than forty years since the first human left the atmosphere of Earth, no one had ever done so without the help of a government agency. That changed on June 21, 2004, when SpaceShipOne, ...  > read more

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