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Galaxy
Exploring the Milky Way
ISBN 978-1-84724-741-4
US (Barnes and Noble) 2008
UK (Quercus) 2009
With nearly 500 cutting-edge images, Galaxy investigates every aspect of the Milky Way – from its place in the Universe to its large-scale anatomy, from its history to its future. We approach the Milky Way from the very edge of the Universe, threading our way through massive conglomerations of galaxies. Skirting the satellite galaxies that orbit like moons around a planet we then plunge through the Milky Way's spiral arms on a course that will ultimately lead us to the black hole at its centre.
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Deep Space
The Universe from the beginning
ISBN 13: 978-1-84724-405-5
US (Barnes and Noble) 2007
UK (Quercus) 2008
Deep Space shows the mysterious objects and phenomena that inhabit the far reaches of the cosmos and the earliest times of existence. Each of this book’s ten easy-to-read chapters explains one big idea in humanity’s study of the origins and evolution of the universe. Within Deep Space are over 250 of the very latest and clearest images of the cosmos, provided by the Hubble Space Telescope and other, even more advanced, viewing technologies.
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The Sun Kings:
The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington
and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began
Princeton University Press, 1st May 2007
ISBN-10 0691126607
ISBN-13 978 0691126609
In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph systems crashed, machines burst into flames, and electric shocks rendered operators unconscious. Compasses and other sensitive instruments reeled as if struck by a massive magnetic fist. For the first time, people began to suspect that the Earth was not isolated from the rest of the universe. An amateur English astronomer Richard Carrington's observations of a mysterious explosion on the surface of the Sun and his brilliant insight–that the Sun's magnetism directly influences the Earth–helped to usher in the modern era of astronomy.
Distribution: UK and US.
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Life on Other Worlds
and How to Find It
Springer-Praxis, 2000
ISBN 185233097X
Drawing together astronomy and biology, this book reviews for a general audience scientific thinking about where and how we might find life elsewhere in the Universe.
Distribution: US and UK.
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Extrasolar Planets:
The Search for New Worlds
Wiley-Praxis, 1998
ISBN 0471976342
(h/b) ISBN 0471976344
A college level introduction to the first discovery of planets outside our Solar System.
Distribution: US and UK.
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Universe in Focus:
The Story of the Hubble Space Telescope
Andromeda, 1997 (updated 1998)
ISBN 0304350257
A general level book about the remarkable pictures and discoveries made by this outstanding telescope. Over 100,000 in print.
US (Barnes and Noble), 1997
UK (Cassell), 1997, updated version 1998
Australia (Ken Finn), 1997
Canada (Vanwell), 1997
Czechoslovakia (ESTY), 1997
Germany (Bertelsmann Club), 1997
Poland (RTW), 1997
Scandinavia (Rabén Prisma), 1998
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Towards the Edge of the Universe
First Edition, Wiley-Praxis, 1997,
ISBN 0471962481
Second Edition, Springer-Praxis, 1999
ISBN 1852330988
A review of modern cosmology (the study of the origin of the Universe), written at an introductory college level.
Distribution: UK and US.
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Redshift
University of Hertfordshire Press, 1997
ISBN 0900458666
An undergraduate introduction to how light rays are stretched in the Universe. This process is one of the foundations upon which all of modern astronomy is built.
Distribution: UK
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The Encyclopaedia of Stars And Atoms
Andromeda Illustrated Reference, 1995
ISBN 1871869528
A basic, highly illustrated family introduction to astronomy.
US (Oxford University Press), 1995; UK (Macmillan), 1995.
Australia (Reed International), France (Loisirs France), 1995; Germany (Bertelsmann Club), 1995; Portugal (Círculo de Leitores), 1996; Spain (Círculo de Lectores), 1995.
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Contributions to Adult Books:
Snoeck's Almanac 2000
Snoeck-Ducajn & Zoon nv,1999
A general readership review of the most important topical issues of the year. I wrote a chapter explaining the latest advances in astronomy.
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The Universe Revealed
Reed Books, 1998
A family level introduction to astronomy in which I wrote a chapter about the origin of the Universe.
US (Mitchell Beazley), 1998; UK (Mitchell Beazley), 1998.
France (Delachaux Et Niestle), 1998; Germany (Kosmos), 1998; Holland (Schuyt), 1998.
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Children's Books:
*co-written with Nicola Clark
Little Moon*
Storysack Ltd 2005
ISBN 1-904949-03-7
Using images from the European Space Agency with cartoon faces added by an illustrator, this is a story for young children. It was used as an element in a ‘sack’ containing a playmat and pack of cards with the same characters, and Stuart’s Journey to the Stars. The book is also available separately.
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The following five titles took the form of illustrated packs for teaching science at the key stages of the national curriculum in the UK.
The Solar System*
Folens, 2004
ISBN-10 18430362 58
ISBN-13 978-18430362 58
Exploring the Solar System*
Folens, 2004
ISBN-10 18430362 66
ISBN-13 978-18430362 65
The Sun*
Folens, 2004
ISBN-10 18430362 4X
ISBN-13 978-18430362 41
Gravity & Space*
Folens, 2004
ISBN-10 18430362 74
ISBN-13 978 18430362 72
Earth, Sun & Moon*
Folens, 2004
ISBN-10 18430362 82
ISBN-13 978-18430362 89
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Earth
Heinemann Library 2002
ISBN 0 431 15458 9
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The Inner Planets
Heinemann Library 2002
ISBN 0 431 15461 9
These two titles were part of a set of seven in the Heinemann Infosearch series for primary children.
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Journey to the Stars
Oxford University Press, May 2000
ISBN 0199105766 pb
ISBN 0199105758 hb
Highly illustrated children's book for 8-12 year olds in which the reader is cast in the role as spacecraft pilot. (Apprx. 30,000 copies first print run). This is still in print in 2007.
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How it works:
Discovering the Universe
Horus Editions 2007
ISBN 9781899762774
Re-issue of the book below, still having stunning cutaway illustrations and with updated text, this is one of ten separate science books making up the Young Encyclopaedia series.
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How it Works:
Discovering the Universe
Horus Editions, 1999
ISBN 1899762426
Highly illustrated children's book for 5 year olds and upwards, about space and space exploration.
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Contributions to children’s books
Stuart Clark was consultant editor on Alex Barnett’s Black holes and other oddities published by Dorling Kindersley in their Mega-bites range.
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DVDs
Hubble: 15 years of discovery
In collaboration with other writers in other European languages, Stuart wrote the English narration, delivered by Bob Fosbury, on a DVD of wonderful images detailing the successes and achievements of the first fifteen years of the Hubble Telescope’s operation.
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