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Provides a fine history of NASA
This latest addition to the 'Out of This World' series provides a fine history of NASA, using color photos to appeal to middle school students of space history. Coverages of NASA endeavors alone aren't common and ages beyond the middle school range will find this equally useful: chapters present over a hundred pages of timeline information and details on space exploration and NASA involvements. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Astronautics    2. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    3. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    4. Exploration    5. History    6. Juvenile Nonfiction    7. Juvenile literature    8. National Aeronautics and Space    9. Outer space    10. Science & Nature - Astronomy    11. Technology - Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science    12. Technology - History    13. United States   

Subjects:  1. Astronomy    2. Astronomy - General    3. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    4. Juvenile literature    5. Science    6. Universe   

Subjects:  1. Astronomy - General    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Science    3. Reference - Dictionaries    4. Science    5. Science & Nature - Astronomy    6. Spanish: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)   

Subjects:  1. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    2. Astronomy    3. Reference works   

Subjects:  1. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    2. Juvenile Nonfiction    3. Science & Nature - Astronomy   

Subjects:  1. Asteroids    2. Astronomy    3. Catastrophes (Geology)    4. Children: Grades 4-6    5. Collisions with Earth    6. Cryptoexplosion structures    7. Meteorites    8. Science    9. Science (General) (Young Adult)    10. Planets & asteroids    11. Science: General Issues   

Subjects:  1. Astronomy (Young Adult)    2. Children's 9-12 - Politics / Current Events    3. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    4. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    5. History - Middle East    6. Human rights    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile literature    9. Middle East    10. People & Places - Middle East    11. Politics & Government    12. Social Science - Politics & Government   

Subjects:  1. Astronomy - General    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    3. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)   

Subjects:  1. Astronomy    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    3. Constellations    4. Juvenile literature    5. Observers' manuals    6. Stars   

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Excellent book
David Raup is a brilliant writer. Although slanted he does present alternative view points and hypotheses. A very interesting book on extinction theory as well as insight into the scientific process and its flaws.

A companion star causing comets here on earth?
The Birthing Pangs of an Idea
David M. Raup has written an interesting account of the scientic process in The Nemesis Affair (A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science).This is a perfect book for the non-specialist as it gives a glimpse into the larger world science inhabits beyond the minutiae of scientific details.This book shows the ways in which the scientific community, the popular press, and the general public all compete and struggle in creating and accepting (or dismissing) new ideas.The belief that dinosaurs died out partially due to a meteor or comet colliding with earth is one such idea and its genesis from a small spark of inspiration into common belief is told in a clear and entertaing fashion.This is a book that is interesting for the scientific idea it is trying to postulate as well as for the way it illuminates the larger world science is trying to inform and shape. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Astronomy - Solar System    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    3. Dinosaurs    4. History    5. Science    6. Palaeozoology   

Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - Reference    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    3. Juvenile Nonfiction    4. Reference - General    5. Science & Nature - Astronomy    6. Science & Technology - Astronomy   

Subjects:  1. Astronomy    2. Astronomy - General    3. Children's 9-12 - Science    4. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    5. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    6. Computer simulation    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile literature    9. Mathematics    10. Science & Nature - Astronomy    11. Universe   

Subjects:  1. Children's 12-Up - Science    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    3. Exploration    4. Juvenile literature    5. Mars (Planet)    6. Outer space    7. Science & Technology - Astronomy    8. Science (General) (Young Adult)   

Subjects:  1. 1473-1543    2. Astronomers    3. Astronomy    4. Biography    5. Children's All Ages - Biography / Autobiography    6. Children's Books/All Ages    7. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    8. Copernicus, Nicolaus,    9. General    10. Juvenile Nonfiction    11. Juvenile literature    12. Poland   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Astronomy    3. Astronomy - General    4. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    5. History    6. Juvenile Nonfiction    7. Science    8. Science & Nature - General    9. Space flight   

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    3. Jupiter (Planet)    4. Juvenile Nonfiction    5. Juvenile literature    6. Science & Nature - Astronomy    7. Technology - Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science   

Subjects:  1. Astronomy (Young Adult)    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 People & Places    3. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    4. Juvenile Nonfiction    5. Juvenile literature    6. Multicultural Studies (Young Adult)    7. People & Places - Middle East    8. Syria    9. Social Sciences   

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    2. Children: Grades 4-6    3. Interstellar communication    4. Juvenile Nonfiction    5. Juvenile literature    6. Life Sciences - Evolution    7. Life on other planets    8. Radio astronomy    9. Research    10. Science & Nature - General    11. Study and teaching    12. United States    13. Science: General Issues   

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Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - Science    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    3. Juvenile literature    4. Pluto (Planet)    5. Science & Technology - Astronomy   

Subjects:  1. Activity programs    2. Astronomy    3. Children's 9-12 - Science    4. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    5. Juvenile Astronomy    6. Juvenile literature    7. Lunar eclipses    8. Moon    9. Science & Technology - Astronomy    10. Study and teaching