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 Exploration of Venus and Mars Atmospheres (Advances in Space Research, Vol 15, No 4 April 1995)As a contribution towards the International Space Year, the Space Agency Forum was formed which... |  Orbit Determination and AnalysisGood reference book, but often confusing wording. Not for beginners. |  Advanced Array Systems, Applications and RF Technologies (Signal Processing and its Applications)Best Price: $40.00 Advanced Array Systems, Applications and RF Technologies adopts a holistic view of arrays used... |  Introduction to Relativity: For Physicists and Astronomers (Complementary Science)Best Price: $36.17 A previous reviewer of this book and myself were actually members of the same physics class at... |  Astronomy: Today Comets Fall: 2001 |
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 The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes (International Series of Monographs on Physics)Best Price: $106.66 This volume has become one of the modern classics of relativity theory. When it was written in... |  CosmologyBest Price: $57.99 Wow! This is the first review of the book in the whole of internet (had reviewed it in the... |  Satellites of the Outer Planets: Worlds in Their Own RightThe author here casts a geological eye over the major satellites of the outer planets (from... |  Astrobiology of Earth: The Emergence, Evolution and Future of Life on a Planet in Turmoil (Oxford Biology)Best Price: $72.98 The study of life in our universe has been given the name 'astrobiology'. It is a... |  Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and CosmologyBest Price: $45.99 Throughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of everything': highly... |
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