Neil de Grasse Tyson is a rare breed of astrophysicist one who can speak as easily & brilliantly with popular audiences as with professional scientists. Now that NASA has put human space flight effectively on hold Tysons views on the future of space travel & Americas role in that future are especially timely & urgent. This book represents the best of Tysons commentary giving an eye-opening manifesto on the importance of space exploration for Americas economy security & morale. It

Includes:: delightful & provocative insights on topics ranging from the mistakes that shaped the recent history of space travel to how aliens might go about finding us.

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Take your child on an incredible journey through our solar system & beyond with the new edition of this first reference for young space explorers. Help your child discover all about our universe: from comets & constellations to black holes & the Big Bang they'll explore awesome places & visit the far reaches of space. Watch as they gaze at the stars with the world's biggest & best telescopes & blast off on a mission to the moon to explore the gas giants Jupiter & Saturn. Plus they'll find some astonishing answers to the big question: Is there other life out there? Full of bite-sized facts curiosity quizzes & special 'weird-or-what' features kids will love getting their teeth into there's lots to see & explore. It is perfect for homework or just for fun. Go ahead let your children's imagination blast off into the cosmos! ...

It is the 20th Century an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments & everything else. Now Schoken Associates one of the big players has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to colonise Venus. Its a hellhole & nobody who knew anything about it would dream of signing up. But by the time Mitch has finished they will be queuing to get on board the spaceships. ...

A great space-age adventure on the far side of the moon Things are going badly at Mission Control. On the far side of the moon a wheel has fallen off the spy-cameras Moon Buggy & the astronauts cant fix it. Its up to Ben to blast into space & save the day! Sure to entrance all beginner readers with its humour & fabulous illustrations! ...

This superbly designed & lavishly illustrated book marks a special moment in history: the final mission of the space shuttle. Noted space & science author Piers Bizony has put together a retrospective that covers all 134 space shuttle missions including the final flight of the shuttle which is scheduled for September 2010. In addition to covering every space shuttle mission the book also covers the development & design of the space shuttle as well as the technical specifications of the vehicle & details of its major assemblies & subassemblies. A full double-gatefold provides a large-scale technical drawing of the space shuttle. ...

It is the year 5012 & the Milky Way galaxy is under attack. After the Universal War a war that almost brought about the destruction of every known universe the planets in the Milky Way banded together to create the Intergalactic Force
- an elite fighting team sworn to protect & defend the galaxy. Only the brightest & most promising students are accepted into the Intergalactic Force Academy & only the very best cadets reach the highest of their ranks & become.. .STAR FIGHTERS! Space Wars! Having escaped Xion the crew of the Phoenix needs to find a way back home but before they can locate the Milky Way they see a monstrous object looming through space towards them. It's the legendary Extractor
- destroyer of planets
- & it's on its way to destroy Xion. Faced with a dilemma: return home or help save the aliens who just tried to kill them Peri decides to use his half-human half-robot skills to try & save the Xion. Only then can they go home.


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The sci-fi classic series returns! September 13th: 1999
- An atomic accident causes the moon to be blown out of orbit & hurled
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Michael K has just started at his new school but as if his very first day wasnt going to be hard enough hes been forced to make friends with the two other new kids who are really weird. But as Michael K soon finds out Bob & Jennifer are not actually weird kids theyre aliens! Real aliens who have invaded our planet with one very important mission to complete: to convince 3 400 001 kids to BE SPHDZ too or the Earth gets turned off! But with a hamster as their leader kids" who talk like walking advertisements & Michael K as their first convert will the SPHDZ be able to keep their cover & complete their mission?" ...

The campaign is going well. The SPHDZ word is getting out. 1000s of kids have signed up to say they are SPHDZ. But things havent got any easier for Michael K. The SPHDZ are still trying to blend in to our Earth culture but not very successfully. Theyre still mixing up cartoon plots holidays & commercials. This makes it especially hard for Michael K to both hide the SPHDZ from Agent Umber & accomplish the SPHDZ Mission & so hes forced to enlist the help of his classmates Venus & TJ. & when Michael K & the SPHDZ are given the assignment to direct the first years in their school play...things are bound to get crazier...quickly. ...

BRIAN AZZARELLO & EDUARDO RISSO
- the Eisner Award-winning creators of 100 BULLETS
- return to Vertigo with their new interstellar

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