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Cosmosby Carl SaganISBN 8432036269 (84-320-3626-9)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Count Zeroby William GibsonISBN 087795769X (0-87795-769-X)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count Zero'Book summary:Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he's perfected. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whom aren't remotely human.
Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo on the Net and a price on his head, Newmark thinks he's only trying to get out alive. A stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future and sequel to Neuromancer [via]
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Cronicas Marcianasby Ray Bradbury, Francisco AbelendaISBN 8445073850 (84-450-7385-0)
Softcover, Minotauro Ediciones Avd
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Earthby Isaac Asimov, Richard HantulaISBN 1591021774 (1-59102-177-4)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Earthby Susanna Van RoseISBN 1564584763 (1-56458-476-3)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth'Book summary:What is at the center of the Earth? Why is sea water salty? Find out the answers to these and other questions in this new look at the Earth. [via]
Earth and You: A Closer View Nature's Featuresby J. Patrick Lewis, Christopher CanyonISBN 1584690151 (1-58469-015-1)
Softcover, Dawn Pubns
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Earth Book for Kids: Activities to Help Heal the Environmentby Linda SchwartzISBN 0881601950 (0-88160-195-0)
Softcover, Creative Teaching Pr
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Earth from Aboveby Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Lester Russell Brown, David BakerISBN 0810934957 (0-8109-3495-7)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth from Above'Book summary:Ecology, a science scarcely a century old, aims to give its practitioners an approach to understanding how whole natural systems--for example, watersheds, deserts, and estuaries--work. Few books translate this aim as well as Earth from Above, a stunning collection of photographs that affords its viewers a window into the world's workings. It is something of a commonplace, for instance, that the large-scale logging now being visited on the world's rainforests is causing untold damage to tropical ecosystems. In French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's hands, this problem is translated from arid fact to alarming image, giving immediate meaning to the statistics that underlie today's environmental headlines; his photographs of the ruins of rural Madagascar, where forests are being cleared at a rate of 1,500 square kilometers (580 square miles) annually, are a sad case in point.
Arthus-Bertrand, working with the support of UNESCO, has wandered the globe to gather this collection of more than 200 photographs, presented in a folio format. The images are uniformly striking, whether of stalagmite-like fans of algae spreading into the Mediterranean Sea, farmers working their fields in northern India, or destroyed Iraqi tanks littering the deserts of Kuwait. The accompanying text, captions, and short essays by some of France's leading scientists and social critics lend specific depth to the images, which will cheer few readers--but that will shock, and educate, and, with luck, inspire closer attention to the world around us. --Gregory McNamee [via]
Earth from Above: 365 Daysby Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Herve Le BrasISBN 0810914301 (0-8109-1430-1)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth from Above: 365 Days'Book summary:For a new perspective on Earth every day of the year, Earth From Above: 365 Days can't be beaten. Yann Arthus-Bertrand's aerial photographs taken from high vantages all over the world are startling and beautiful. The book's format, short and wide, makes it an ideal desk companion for anyone who loves outdoor photography, anthropology or ecology. From tropical atolls to the highest mountain peaks, Earth From Above offers a point of view previously enjoyed only by pilots and astronauts. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spiritby Al GoreISBN 1594866376 (1-59486-637-6)
Softcover, Rodale Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit'Book summary:What's most inspiring about Earth in the Balance is who wrote it. It's a big deal, after all, that a sitting senator was willing to write, "We must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization." And that's not all. In his 1992 book, Al Gore also wrote:
I have become very impatient with my own tendency to put a finger to the political winds and proceed cautiously.... [E]very time I pause to consider whether I have gone too far out on a limb, I look at the new facts [on the environment crisis] that continue to pour in from around the world and conclude that I have not gone far enough.... [T]he time has long since come to take more political risks--and endure more political criticism--by proposing tougher, more effective solutions and fighting hard for their enactments.
And the buzz on the street is that Gore actually wrote those words himself.
When Earth in the Balance first came out, it caused quite a stir--and for good reason. It convincingly makes the case that a crisis of epidemic proportions is nearly upon us and that if the world doesn't get its act together soon and agree to some kind of "Global Marshall Plan" to protect the environment, we're all up a polluted creek without a paddle. Myriad plagues are upon us, but the worst include the loss of biodiversity, the depletion of the ozone layer, the slash-and-burn destruction of rainforests, and the onset of global warming. None of this is new, of course, nor was it new in 1992. But most environmentalists will still get a giddy feeling reading such a call to action as written by a prominent politician.
The book is arranged into three sections: the first describes the plagues; the second looks at how we got ourselves into this mess; and the final chapters present ways out. Gore gets his points across in a serviceable way, though he could have benefited from a firmer editor's hand; at times the analogies are arcane and the pacing is odd--kind of like a Gore speech that climaxes at weird points and then sinks just as the audience is about to clap. Still, at the end you understand what's been said. Gore believes that if we apply some American ingenuity, the twin engines of democracy and capitalism can be rigged to help us stabilize world population growth, spread social justice, boost education levels, create environmentally appropriate technologies, and negotiate international agreements to bring us back from the brink. For example, a worldwide shift to clean, renewable energy sources would create huge economic opportunities for companies large and small to design, build, and maintain solar panels, wind turbines, fuel cells, and other ecofriendly innovations.
Gore doesn't mince words when describing just how hard it will be to get out of this jam. Real hope is contingent on a swelling up of concern among the public--and fast. A year into the vice presidency, in an interview with writer Bill McKibben, Gore paraphrased a key passage in his book, "The minimum that is scientifically necessary far exceeds the maximum that is politically feasible." Ah, a political out. Some readers will ask of Gore: what has he done since publishing his book to advance the political feasibility of decisive environmental action? --Chip Giller [via]
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Earth Prayers from Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earthby Elizabeth Roberts, Elias Amidon, Elizabeth J. RobertsISBN 006250746X (0-06-250746-X)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth Prayers: From Around the World, 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth'Book summary:In forest clearings, beneath star-filled skies, in cathedrals, and before the hearth... women and men have always given voice to the impulse to celebrate the world that surrounds and sustains them. Now, as we face a diminished present and an uncertain future, the need to honor the interconnection between people and the planet is heightened.
From Walt Whitman, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Black Elk, to Margaret Atwood, the Rig Veda, and the chant of a Samar fisherman, the varied voices linked here offer songs and prayers for land, sea, and air; graces for food; and invocations, poems, and passages that reveal in the common spiritual heritage of all who cherish creation. [via]
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- Earth Prayers from Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth: ISBN 0062508881 (0-06-250888-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Earth Prayers: From Around the World, 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth: ISBN 006250746X (0-06-250746-X)
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- Earth Prayers from Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth: ISBN 0062508881 (0-06-250888-1)
Earthdanceby Joanne Ryder, Norman GorbatyISBN 0805062319 (0-8050-6231-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Eco-Economy : Building an Economy for the Earthby Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute StaffISBN 1853839043 (1-85383-904-3)
Softcover, Earthscan/James & James
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Ecotopiaby Ernest CallenbachISBN 0960432019 (0-9604320-1-9)
Softcover, Heyday Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecotopia'Book summary:Ecotopia embodies in concrete, practical form the new biology-conscious philosophy that has been evolving in recent years, especially on the West Coast.
The setting is the early 21st century. Ecotopia, made up of what was once Northern California, Oregon, and Washington, has been independent for several decades. At last, an official visitor from New York is admitted: Will Weston, top investigative reporter. Like a modern Gulliver, Weston is sometimes horrified sometimes impressed despite himself, and sometimes touched by the strange practices he encounters--which include ritual war games, collective ownership and operation of farms and factories, and an attention to trees and reforestation which borders on tree-worship.
With beautiful new cover art and a new introduction by the author, this thirtieth anniversary edition of Ecotopia will delight old fans and new, and make a perfect gift for anyone who has ever asked the question, ''How can I make a difference?'' [via]
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Ender's Shadowby Orson Scott CardISBN 0765342405 (0-7653-4240-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ender's Shadow'Book summary:Ender's Shadow is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender's Game. By "parallel," Card means that Shadow begins and ends at roughly the same time as Game, and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity's fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he can overcome his own inner turmoil.
Second among the children is Bean, who becomes Ender's lieutenant despite the fact that he is the smallest and youngest of the Battle School students. Bean is the central character of Shadow, and we pick up his story when he is just a 2-year-old starving on the streets of a future Rotterdam that has become a hell on earth. Bean is unnaturally intelligent for his age, which is the only thing that allows him to escape--though not unscathed--the streets and eventually end up in Battle School. Despite his brilliance, however, Bean is doomed to live his life as an also-ran to the more famous and in many ways more brilliant Ender. Nonetheless, Bean learns things that Ender cannot or will not understand, and it falls to this once pathetic street urchin to carry the weight of a terrible burden that Ender must not be allowed to know.
Although it may seem like Shadow is merely an attempt by Card to cash in on the success of his justly famous Ender's Game, that suspicion will dissipate once you turn the first few pages of this engrossing novel. It's clear that Bean has a story worth telling, and that Card (who started the project with a cowriter but later decided he wanted it all to himself) is driven to tell it. And though much of Ender's Game hinges on a surprise ending that Card fans are likely well acquainted with, Shadow manages to capitalize on that same surprise and even turn the table on readers. In the end, it seems a shame that Shadow, like Bean himself, will forever be eclipsed by the myth of Ender, because this is a novel that can easily stand on its own. Luckily for readers, Card has left plenty of room for a sequel, so we may well be seeing more of Bean in the near future. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Exploring Planet Earthby John Hudson TinerISBN 0890511780 (0-89051-178-0)
Softcover, New Leaf Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exploring Planet Earth'Book summary:The first in a series of books on science, this book has broad appeal for any elementary-age child, but is written specifically as a resource tool for fifth grade through junior high level.
Blending a creationism perspective of history with definitions of terms and identification of famous explorers, scientists, etc., this book gives students an excellent initial knowledge of people and places, encouraging them to continue their studies in-depth.
Supplemented with photographs, illustrations, questions, and chapter review activities, Exploring Planet Earth brings to life people like Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, and gives students the opportunity to read history that hasnt been altered or erased altogether. [via]
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The Forge of Godby Greg BearISBN 0765301075 (0-7653-0107-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Foundation's Edgeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0893406058 (0-89340-605-8)
Softcover, John Curley & Assoc
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas Adams, Steve Leialoha, John CarnellISBN 1563892715 (1-56389-271-5)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:How shall we begin?
This is the story of a book called The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxynot an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.
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This is the story of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to be a television spectacle on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
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This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, secnds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, with the words dont panic written on the front. ( A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. )
In their travels they meet:
"Zaphod Beeblebroxthe two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch President of the Galaxy
"TrillianZaphods girl friend, formerly Tricia McMillan, whom Arthur once tried to pick up at a cocktail party
"Marvina paranoid android, a brilliant but chronically depressed robot
"Veet Voojagigformer graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years
To find the answers to these burning questions: Why are we born? Why do we die? And why do we spend so much time in between wearing digital watches? read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. But remember . . . dont panic, and dont forget to bring a towel. [via]More editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 1400052920 (1-4000-5292-0)
Hardcover, Harmony Books - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 1400052939 (1-4000-5293-9)
Hardcover, Harmony Books - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 0345391802 (0-345-39180-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 0345418913 (0-345-41891-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 0613064054 (0-613-06405-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 0671746065 (0-671-74606-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 0517542099 (0-517-54209-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 1563892715 (1-56389-271-5)
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- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 1400052920 (1-4000-5292-0)
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Hitchhikers Trilogy Omnibus Edby CrownISBN 0517552000 (0-517-55200-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitchhikers Trilogy Omnibus Ed'Book summary:Contains The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy, The Restaurant at the endof the Universe, and life, the universe and everything [via]
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About Itby Al GoreISBN 1594865671 (1-59486-567-1)
Softcover, Rodale Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It'Book summary:[via]An Inconvenient Truth--Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance--is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that Gore created and delivers to groups around the world. With this book, Gore, who is one of our environmental heroes--and a leading expert--brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness--and with humor, too--that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked. This riveting new book--written in an accessible, entertaining style--will open the eyes of even the most skeptical.More editions of An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It:
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Let's Take Care of Earthby Rozanne Lanczak Williams, Neena ChawlaISBN 0916119424 (0-916119-42-4)
Softcover, Creative Teaching Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let's Take Care of Earth'Book summary:Teach Science Standards through Engaging Text. Repetitive, predictable story lines and illustrations that match the text provide maximum support to the emergent reader. Engaging stories promote reading comprehension, and easy and fun activities on the inside back covers extend learning. Great for Reading First, Fluency, Vocabulary, Text Comprehension, and ESL/ELL! [via]
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Life on Earth: A Natural Historyby David AttenboroughISBN 0316057479 (0-316-05747-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on Earth: A Natural History'Book summary:In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from the emergence of tiny one-celled organisms in the primeval slime more than 3,000 million years ago to apelike but upright man, equally well adapted to life in the rain forest of New Guinea and the glass canyons of a modern metropolis. Told through an examination of animal and plant life today - with occasional juxtapositions of extinct fossil forms to reveal the origin of living creatures - "Life on Earth" is an astonishing pageant of life, with a cast of characters drawn from the whole range of living animals the world over. Attenborough's perceptive, dynamic approach to the evolution of some four million species of living organisms that populate the planet is to trace the most significant thread in the history of each major group. He then proceeds to explain from the evidence of living representatives and fossil remains why certain animals adapted and survived, evolved to more complex and "higher" forms of life, while others, by some inherent limitation imposed by their physiology or structure, failed and became extinct. "Life on Earth" is a book of wonders. A model of clarity and ease as a guide, Attenborough takes the reader around the world with him into jungles where orchids have petals that "impersonate" wasps to attract pollenizing insects; to Australia, where honeypot ants forcefeed nectar to workers of a special caste, then hang them up by their forelegs like living storge jars; to remote mountains in Japan where little monkeys called macaques have learned to combat the winter snows by bathing in hot volcanic springs. [via]
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- Life on Earth: A Natural History: ISBN 0002190915 (0-00-219091-5)
Hardcover, Collins - Life on Earth: A Natural History: ISBN 0002190923 (0-00-219092-3)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association - Life on Earth: A Natural History: ISBN 0316057452 (0-316-05745-2)
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- Life on Earth: A Natural History: ISBN 0002190915 (0-00-219091-5)
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The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earthby David AttenboroughISBN 0316057495 (0-316-05749-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth'Book summary:Attenborough looks here at continuing evolution and the adaptation of plants and animals to specific and differing environments. For example, he finds that the coral reef is the marine equivalent of the tropical rain forest, that modern cities, with their masonry and concrete, are the counterparts of the ash fields and lava flows of volcanoes. PW lauded this book, maintaining that it deserves as much attention as its predecessor, Life on Earth. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. [via]
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- The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth: ISBN 0002191695 (0-00-219169-5)
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Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth: ISBN 0316057495 (0-316-05749-5)
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- The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth: ISBN 0002191695 (0-00-219169-5)
Looking at Earthby Priscilla L. StrainISBN 1570363730 (1-57036-373-0)
Softcover, Turner Publishing, Incorporated
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Looking at Earth: The National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Instituteby Priscilla L. Strain, Frederick EngleISBN 1878685163 (1-878685-16-3)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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Los Limites De La Fundacionby Isaac AsimovISBN 8497594347 (84-9759-434-7)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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The Magic School Busby Joanna ColeISBN 0590407600 (0-590-40760-0)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic School Bus'Book summary:On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms Frizzle's class learn at first hand about different kinds of rocks and the formation of the earth. [via]
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- The Magic School Bus: ISBN 0590727826 (0-590-72782-6)
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Hardcover, Scholastic - The Magic School Bus: ISBN 0590446975 (0-590-44697-5)
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The Magic School Bus in the Time of Dinosaursby Joanna Cole, Bruce DegenISBN 0590446894 (0-590-44689-4)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic School Bus in the Time of Dinosaurs'Book summary:Joanna Cole Illustrations Bruce Degen. Cole and Degen are a can t miss team when it comes to making science a good time no matter what the subject. Booklist. [via]
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The Martian Chroniclesby Ray BradburyISBN 0553278223 (0-553-27822-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Martian Chronicles'Book summary:From "Rocket Summer" to "The Million-Year Picnic," Ray Bradbury's stories of the colonization of Mars form an eerie mesh of past and future. Written in the 1940s, the chronicles drip with nostalgic atmosphere--shady porches with tinkling pitchers of lemonade, grandfather clocks, chintz-covered sofas. But longing for this comfortable past proves dangerous in every way to Bradbury's characters--the golden-eyed Martians as well as the humans. Starting in the far-flung future of 1999, expedition after expedition leaves Earth to investigate Mars. The Martians guard their mysteries well, but they are decimated by the diseases that arrive with the rockets. Colonists appear, most with ideas no more lofty than starting a hot-dog stand, and with no respect for the culture they've displaced.
Bradbury's quiet exploration of a future that looks so much like the past is sprinkled with lighter material. In "The Silent Towns," the last man on Mars hears the phone ring and ends up on a comical blind date. But in most of these stories, Bradbury holds up a mirror to humanity that reflects a shameful treatment of "the other," yielding, time after time, a harvest of loneliness and isolation. Yet the collection ends with hope for renewal, as a colonist family turns away from the demise of the Earth towards a new future on Mars. Bradbury is a master fantasist and The Martian Chronicles are an unforgettable work of art. --Blaise Selby [via]
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- The Martian Chronicles: ISBN 0380973839 (0-380-97383-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Martian Chronicles: ISBN 0385038623 (0-385-03862-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday - The Martian Chronicles: ISBN 0385050607 (0-385-05060-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday - The Martian Chronicles: ISBN 0553278223 (0-553-27822-3)
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- The Martian Chronicles: ISBN 0380973839 (0-380-97383-9)
Miracle Planetby Bruce Brown, Lane MorganISBN 0318425033 (0-318-42503-3)
Hardcover, Knapp Pr
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Mostly Harmlessby Douglas AdamsISBN 0345379330 (0-345-37933-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mostly Harmless'Book summary:Douglas Adams is back with the amazing, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here is the epic story of Random, who sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. Line drawings.
From the Hardcover edition. [via]More editions of Mostly Harmless:
- Mostly Harmless: ISBN 0345418778 (0-345-41877-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Mostly Harmless: ISBN 0613139461 (0-613-13946-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Mostly Harmless: ISBN 0517577402 (0-517-57740-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group - Mostly Harmless: ISBN 0345379330 (0-345-37933-0)
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Mountain of Black Glassby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886778492 (0-88677-849-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mountain of Black Glass'Book summary:Otherland, the quartet of which Mountain of Black Glass is the powerful third part, combines some terrifying speculation on the future of virtual reality with adventures no less terrifying because they are technologized dreaming. These are dreams the adventurers cannot awaken from and in which, if they die, they are really dead.
An epidemic of comatose children has led Renie and her San friend !Xabbu into the net and to a series of dream worlds created as palaces by the corrupt aspiring immortals, the Grail Brotherhood. Two of those children, Orlando and Fredericks, have become adventurers in their own right, while their parents' lawyer Ramsey follows real-world money and lesbian cop Calliope tracks a serial killer with serious ambitions to become an angry god. In this volume, adventures take place in a mythic ancient Egypt and a rambling Gormenghastlike house before all the virtual adventurers meet where they were always destined to, before the walls of Troy.
"All around, death. It was not a quiet presence during the long day--not a pale-faced maiden bringing surcease from pain, not a skillful reaper with a scalpel-sharp blade.... Death on the Trojan plain was a crazed beast that roared and clawed and smashed, which was everywhere at once, and which in its unending fury showed that even armored men were terribly frail things."
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Orbit: Nasa Astronauts Photograph the Earthby Jay Apt, Michael Helfert, Justin Wilkinson, Roger RessmeyerISBN 0792261860 (0-7922-6186-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earthby National Geographic Society Staff, Jay Apt, Michael Helfert, Justin WilkinsonISBN 0792237145 (0-7922-3714-5)
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Orbit: Nasa Astronauts Photograph the Earthby Roger Ressmeyer, National Geographic Society (U.S.), Jay Apt, Michael Helfert, Justin WilkinsonISBN 0792237153 (0-7922-3715-3)
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Otherlandby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886778441 (0-88677-844-1)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Otherland'Book summary:Otherland, the quartet of which Mountain of Black Glass is the powerful third part, combines some terrifying speculation on the future of virtual reality with adventures no less terrifying because they are technologized dreaming. These are dreams the adventurers cannot awaken from and in which, if they die, they are really dead.
An epidemic of comatose children has led Renie and her San friend !Xabbu into the net and to a series of dream worlds created as palaces by the corrupt aspiring immortals, the Grail Brotherhood. Two of those children, Orlando and Fredericks, have become adventurers in their own right, while their parents' lawyer Ramsey follows real-world money and lesbian cop Calliope tracks a serial killer with serious ambitions to become an angry god. In this volume, adventures take place in a mythic ancient Egypt and a rambling Gormenghastlike house before all the virtual adventurers meet where they were always destined to, before the walls of Troy.
"All around, death. It was not a quiet presence during the long day--not a pale-faced maiden bringing surcease from pain, not a skillful reaper with a scalpel-sharp blade.... Death on the Trojan plain was a crazed beast that roared and clawed and smashed, which was everywhere at once, and which in its unending fury showed that even armored men were terribly frail things."
Tad Williams takes the gameworld and turns it on its head, passionately; how do we know that what bleeds does not feel pain? He writes a classic of cyberspace adventure that has a sorrowful heart. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Pale Blue Dotby Carl SaganISBN 0345376595 (0-345-37659-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pale Blue Dot'Book summary:"FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S BOOKS."
--The Washington Post Book World (front page review)
In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.
Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier--space. In Pale Blue Dot Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race.
"TAKES READERS FAR BEYOND Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity's future in the stars."
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Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Spaceby Carl SaganISBN 0679764860 (0-679-76486-0)
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Picture Reference Earthby Barbara TaylorISBN 1587286521 (1-58728-652-1)
Hardcover, Two-Can Pub Inc
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The Planet Earthby Jonathan WeinerISBN 0553050966 (0-553-05096-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Planet Earth/the Companion Volume to the Pbs Television Seriesby Jonathan WeinerISBN 0553343580 (0-553-34358-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Ray Bradbury's the Martian Chroniclesby Ray BradburyISBN 0671647555 (0-671-64755-5)
Softcover, Macmillan General Reference
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River of Blue Fireby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777771 (0-88677-777-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River of Blue Fire'Book summary:Tad Williams began his Otherland series with the massive City of Golden Shadow and continues it with the equally hefty River of Blue Fire. Williams says it will require four (big) books to tell his complex, multithreaded tale, and at the rate that the plot of this second novel moves, readers will see what he means. Not that the book is a slow read; in fact, River is as much a suspenseful page-turner as the first book.
As River opens, we join up again with the ragtag bunch of searchers trapped in an astoundingly detailed and frightfully dangerous virtual world known as Otherland. Lurking in disguise among the group is the brutally vicious serial killer Dread, trying to find information that will help him overthrow his Grail Brotherhood masters. The group follows a ubiquitous river through world after world, unable to go offline, and subject to the increasingly terrifying certainty that things in this supposedly virtual place are all too real. Meanwhile, Paul Jonas, an amnesic (but somehow pivotal) character fleeing from two sinister beings, finds more and more of his memory as he does his own Huck Finn river trip. As in the first novel, each new world that the characters enter, from Paleolithic Ice Age to something suspiciously like Oz, is fully realized and completely unpredictable.
Williams is a master at parceling out information to the reader in dribs and drabs, which is frustrating yet tantalizing, like a particularly good computer game. When the group is split up and the adventure divides further, the reader senses the author as a puppet master, following some incredibly complex flows of information. The best course is just to hang on and enjoy Williams's deft characterizations, lush descriptions, and wildly divergent plot. If you've ever been white-water rafting, you'll recognize the feeling. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Shadow Of The Giantby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312857586 (0-312-85758-6)
Hardcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow Of The Giant'Book summary:Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School.[via]
For Earth was at war - a terrible war with an inscrutable alien enemy. A war that humanity was near to losing. But the long distances of interstellar space has given hope to the defenders of Earth - they had time to train military geniuses up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. That story is told in two books, the beloved classic ENDER'S GAME, and its parallel, ENDER'S SHADOW.
Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins' right hand, Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family - something he has never known - but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies - old enemies from the days in Ender's Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. To find security, Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender's footsteps. They must leave Earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and look to the stars.More editions of Shadow Of The Giant:
A Short History of Nearly Everythingby Bill BrysonISBN 1417665483 (1-4176-6548-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'Book summary:One of the worlds most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the worlds most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.
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Stranger in a Strange Landby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0848805224 (0-8488-0522-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guideby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517124858 (0-517-12485-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide'Book summary:It's safe to say that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the funniest science fiction novels ever written. Adams spoofs many core science fiction tropes: space travel, aliens, interstellar war--stripping away all sense of wonder and repainting them as commonplace, even silly.
This omnibus edition begins with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction. Then in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Arthur and his new friends travel to the end of time and discover the true reason for Earth's existence. In Life, the Universe, and Everything, the gang goes on a mission to save the entire universe. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish recounts how Arthur finds true love and "God's Final Message to His Creation." Finally, Mostly Harmless is the story of Arthur's continuing search for home, in which he instead encounters his estranged daughter, who is on her own quest. There's also a bonus short story, "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe," more of a vignette than a full story, which wraps up this completist's package of the Don't Panic chronicles. As the series progresses, its wackier elements diminish, but the satire of human life and foibles is ever present. --Brooks Peck [via]
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0345453743 (0-345-45374-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Conde Ceroby William GibsonISBN 8445074024 (84-450-7402-4)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Una Breve Historia De Casi Todo/a Short History of Nearly Everythingby Bryson BillISBN 8478713808 (84-7871-380-8)
Softcover, Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Una Breve Historia De Casi Todo/a Short History of Nearly Everything'Book summary:One of the worlds best-selling writers takes his ultimate journey into the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer. Its a dazzling quest, to understand what that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Or, as the author puts it, &how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since. Description in Spanish: Bill Bryson se describe como un viajero renuente, pero ni siquiera cuando está en su casa, en la seguridad de su estudio, puede contener esa curiosidad que siente por el mundo que le rodea. En Una breve historia de casi todo intenta entender qué ocurrió entre la Gran Explosión y el surgimiento de la civilización, cómo pasamos de la nada a lo ahora somos. [via]
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Okotopia: Notizen Und Reportagen Von William Weston Aus Dem Jahre 1999 [sic]by Ernest CallenbachISBN 3880220409 (3-88022-040-9)
Hardcover, Rotbuch Verlag
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