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  • Election Matters
    Thomas Wm. Hamilton / Thomas WmHamilton
    As a 15-year-old, Parvin escaped her home planet of God’s Victorious Warriors, when its repressive government executed the rest of her family.Now living on the planet Universityworld, the former runaway teaches mathematics and is known as Professor Parvin Priddlikachorn. Her husband, Professor Siddithamon Priddikachorn, nicknamed Pretty, teaches planetary geology and hails from...
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    10,18 €

  • Altered Times
    Thomas Wm. Hamilton / Thomas WmHamilton
    What if?Altered Times is a stunning collection of short stories that examine the consequences of a single change in history.The stories look at how a number of events may have gone in a different direction, from the decidedly pre-historical collision of Earth with the astronomically theoretical proto-planet Theia, to three alternative consequences for the 2020 presidential elec...
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    8,65 €

  • Scam Artists of the Galaxy
    Thomas Wm. Hamilton
    Scam Artists of the Galaxy features a pair of creative scammers who travel from planet to planet 450 years from now. Their misadventures cover a wide variety of scams in nineteen widespread locales. On some planets the male cousins make money, while on others they leave one step ahead of the local equivalent to a sheriff. One of them, a ladies’ man, even tries to pick up girls ...
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    9,67 €

  • Moons of the Solar System, Revised Second Edition
    Thomas Hamilton / Thomas WmHamilton
    Retired astronomer Thomas Wm. Hamilton has written six books on astronomy. But science always changes. His most recent book, Moons of the Solar System, has just been revised to incorporate the newest research and information on these amazing bodies in the sky. The new title is Moons of the Solar System, Revised Second Edition: Incorporating the Latest Discoveries in Our Solar S...
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    13,68 €

  • Weird Thoughts
    Thomas Wm. Hamilton / Thomas WmHamilton
    Seventeen short stories are featured in Thomas Wm. Hamilton’s latest book Weird Thoughts. Spanning the years 1912 to fifty million years in the future, the book’s genres cover science fiction, fantasy, and satire.The stories are followed by seven essays in the field of astronomy, including issues that can be easily misunderstood by the general public. The author was previously ...
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    10,13 €

  • Astronomical Numbers
    Thomas Hamilton / Thomas WmHamilton
    Thomas Wm. Hamilton’s latest book Astronomical Numbers provides most of the commonly referenced and used numbers in astronomy.This includes the diameters of the sun, all the planets, and major moons, distances of orbits, magnitude scales, frequency of eclipses, the five different kinds of lunar month, and more.To maximize usefulness, all values are in both English units (e.g. m...
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    19,62 €

  • Impact Craters of Earth
    Thomas Hamilton / Thomas Wm. Hamilton / Thomas WmHamilton
    Craters have been found on planets and moons throughout the solar system, caused when asteroids or meteors have collided with them. Our Earth has not escaped these impacts, and nearly 200 craters are known on Earth today. Some are easily visited, others are in locations few would ever want to get near.This book details all the known terrestrial impact craters, telling their age...
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    15,06 €

  • Dwarf Planets and Asteroids
    Thomas Hamilton / Thomas Wm Hamilton
    This stunning astronomy book explores Dwarf Planets and Asteroids: Minor Bodies of the Solar System.Written by a retired astronomer, the book provides a survey of the dwarf planets and asteroids, giving details of the discovery, naming, orbits, and physical characteristics of hundreds of examples of the known asteroids found by astronomers in the past two centuries. It also inc...
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    13,47 €

  • Our Neighbor Stars
    Thomas Wm Hamilton
    The sky’s the limit in the fascinating book Our Neighbor Stars: Including Brown Dwarfs. The book presents all known information on the 100 stars nearest Earth, as well as the brown dwarfs within the range covered by these stars.Learn where (and whether) the stars are visible in the sky, who discovered them and how they were discovered. Read all about the stars’ sizes, colors, p...
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    9,98 €

  • Useful Star Names
    Thomas Wm Hamilton
    Travel the universe when you open the breathtaking new book Useful Star Names: With Nebulas and other Celestial Features. Retired astronomy professor Thomas Wm. Hamilton invites you along as he provides an alphabetical listing of the 88 constellations. Learn the names of the stars, nebulas, and galaxies within each, as well as how to find their location in the sky and their bri...
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    10,78 €