 | Exploring the Night Sky: The Equinox Astronomy Guide for Beginners by Terence Dickinson
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 This is the book I bought for my young daughters to introduce them to space. It is a great book about the night sky (planets, stars, milky way) that fuels the imagination.
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 | The Cosmic Perspective: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology Media Update (5th Edition) by Jeffrey O. Bennett
Buy used from: $18.60 One of my daughters used this book in her college class on Astronomy. According to her, it was a great class. The book introduces astronomy well.
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 | Comet, Revised by Carl Sagan
Buy new: $18.44 / Used from: $0.01 This book by the late Carl Sagan and his wife, Ann Druyan, is very well written. In addition to the background on comets and the history behind the prediction for the return of Halley's comet based on elliptical orbits, it is an awesome book on the subject.
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 | Gravitation (Physics Series) by Charles W. Misner
Buy new: $139.71 / Used from: $70.00 This is a massive book on the math and physics of curved space-time and Einstein's geometric theory of gravity. It requires nearly a lifetime of brain energy to understand, but worth it.
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 | The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
Buy new: $15.83 / Used from: $8.99 This book is the other massive treatise on the physical laws of the universe that I am casually studying. Written by Roger Penrose and published in 2004, it represents probably the single most comprehensive book to date on mathematic physics of the universe.
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 | The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
Buy new: $16.56 / Used from: $5.39 This is a well-written book on relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory that explains concepts without producing the equations. Chapter 4, microscopic weirdness, is my favorite.
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 | The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition by Stephen William Hawking
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $10.78 This is the classic timeless book by Stephen Hawking. Truly, this is my favorite.
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 | Introduction to Space Dynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) by William Tyrrell Thomson
Buy new: $9.44 / Used from: $4.93 If you are going to travel through space, then this is the book that explains it. Required reading for orbital satellite design engineers. Can't beat the price, either.
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 | Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: A Practical Engineering Approach (Cambridge Aerospace Series) by Marcel J. Sidi
Buy new: $68.76 / Used from: $64.76 This book describes orbit dynamics, orbital maneuvers, attitude control, and stabilization for satellites. Very well-written.
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