After the huge national and international success of 'Longitude' and 'Gallileo's Daughter', Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system.

Takes readers on an imaginative trip through every corner of the Solar System. Drawing on discoveries made by Voyager I and II, Magellan, Galileo, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Mars Global Surveyor Mission and other space initiatives, this work combines art and science. It has paintings that give an unprecedented view of astronomical phenomena.

I'm the Cat in the Hat, and we're off to have fun. We'll visit the planets, the stars and the sun! And so Dr. Seuss' famous Cat in the Hat whisks young readers off on a fun-filled tour of the solar system.

The science fiction classic, reissued with stunning new cover artwork, an important new foreword by the author and a fascinating new introduction by Stephen Baxter.

Presents a compendium, which features twenty whimsical poems about space. From the moon to the stars, from the Earth to Mars, this work serves as a celebration of our celestial surroundings. It includes die-cut pages and a glossary of space terms.

The fascinating world of space is vividly presented for young children in this reference text which combines colour illustrations and photographs with simple language.

The solar system has long been suspected of hiding secret mysterious relationships and patterns. From the earliest known times people have studied the motions of planets. Now, just when we thought there were no more surprises left, John Martineau introduces the solar system in a totally new and original way! X15 mixed counterpack is available @ 74.85 on ISBN 1904263275

Mars - the red planet - is a barren landscape of mankind's dreams of space. This book follows the colonization of the planet, as a cratered wasteland is turned into a human habitation.

To the spaceship Discovery, floating in the silent depths of space since Dave Bowman passed through the alien 'Star Gate', comes Heywood Floyd on a mission of recovery. What he finds near Jupiter is beyond the imaginings of any mere human.

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. It is a wonder Pluto has any fans, yet during the debate over Pluto's status, people rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog. This book explores the history of planet classification and America's obsession with the 'planet' that has been judged a dwarf.

Presents a framework for understanding the origin and evolution of the solar system, historical discoveries, and details about planetary bodies and how they interact.

Introduces readers to the physics of black holes, examines the needless friction between science and religion in the context of historical conflicts and assails the movie industry's feeble efforts to get its night skies right.

This guide is based on contemporary information from astronomers around the world, and space probes around the galaxy. It contains illustrations of exploding stars and how black holes are formed, star maps so the reader can navigate the night sky, and recommended internet links.

This novel follows the attempts of a small group of scientists who explore Jupiter in the hope of finding intelligent life forms. Amongst the explorers is Grant Archer who is planted on the expedition by a religious group who want to prove their own theories, but Grant has an open mind.

Updated through 2010, this field guide for the new millennium is a must- have for anyone interested in the night sky.

The discovery of the notes for Richard Feynman's major lecture on the motion of planets around the sun, presented in this book, allows readers an insight into the workings of his mind. The book relates how the notes came to be lost, and how they came to be found again and reconstructed.

2061 is the year Halley's Comet makes its next pilgrimage to the inner Solar System - and the year centenarian Heywood Floyd encounters once again the alien Monoliths. Near Jupiter, the transfigured forms of Dave Bowman and HAL the computer are Heywood's only chance of survival - if they too are not now alien beings.

One of SF's classic stories by one of it's greatest masters.

Imaging techniques from Earth continue to improve, while missions such as Voyager, Galileo and the Hubble Space Telescope have yielded many excellent images. This book collects some 72 main images, showing objects heretofore little seen, to tell a story of the Solar System.