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Astronomy, Cosmology, Space Science E-Books ﺒﺎ�ﺪ Astronomy, Cosmology, Space Science E-Books ﺒﺎﺪ. (﷼)code title Original Price Our Price 811-003 1,001 Celestial Wonders to See Before You Die - The Best Sky Objects for Star Gazers 10000 ﺮ Auth: Michael E. Bakich 2010 Springer $44 ISBN: 1441917764 Pages: 479 823-005 11 Planets - A New View of the Solar System 10000 ﻤﺎه Auth: David A. Aguilar 2008 National Geographic Children' $16 ISBN: 1426302363 Pages: 114 ۹ ۸ 10000 ﺪ ﺪ(1st Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics (Springer Proceedings in Physics 849-002 Auth: Piero Nicolini Matthias Kaminski 2016 Springer $259 ISBN: 9783319200453 Pages: 392 ﻨﺪ ری ا 734-006 2001 A Spacetime Odyssey 10000 ﻮ ا Auth: James T. Liu 2003 World Scientific Pub Co Inc $49 ISBN: 9812382313 Pages: 240 ا ﻪ روزی ﻂ روزی 795-002 2001 Mars Odyssey 10000 ۱ ﺤﺎ Auth: Christopher Russell 2004 Springer $119 ISBN: 9401569584۴ Pages: 159 ﻮﻣﺎن 10000 ﯽ Summer School on Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology 2002 734-007 Auth: Senjanovic, G Smirnov, A Thompson 2003 ICTP $44 ISBN: Pages: 451 ا 10000 ﻦ Australasian Sky Guide 2012 719-002 ۱۰۰۰ Auth: LOMB 2012 POWER HOUSE BOOKS $44 ISBN: 1863171371 Pages: 113 و 677-002 2012 Equation Solved 10000 ن Auth: Pane Andov 2010 ASTRALWALKER $44 ISBN: ۲۶ Pages: 214 ا 10000 ﻮ(20th Century - Race to the Moon (Time for Kids Nonfiction Readers - Level 5.1 839-027 Auth: Stephanie Paris 2013 Teacher Created Materials $10 ISBN: 1433348993 Pages: 64 ﺮم ﺖ 734-011 21st Century Astronomy (Full 3rd Edition) 10000 Auth: Jeff Hester Bradford Smith George Blu 2010 W. W. 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Norton & Company $44 ISBN: 9780393938999 Pages: 817 839-031 27 Stars, 27 Gods - The Astrological Mythology of Ancient India 10000 ا د Auth: Vic DiCara Vraja Kishor das 2012 CreateSpace Independent Publ $27 ISBN: 1481859870 Pages: 160 ﻔﺎده ﯽ ن 694-001 3,000 Deep-Sky Objects: An Annotated Catalogue (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) 10000 ISBN: 1441994181 Pages: 575 44$ ا Auth: Ted Aranda 2012 Springer ﻮ ا ی ا 797-014 3-D Atlas of Stars and Galaxies 10000 ۱۰۰۰ ا Auth: Richard Monkhouse John Cox 2014 Springer $109 ISBN: 1447110390 Pages: 95 آ ﻒ 3D Spectroscopy in Astronomy (Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics) ، 10000 689-004 ﻔﺎرﺷﺎتاز Pages: 288 ﺮAuth: Evencio Mediavilla Santiago Arribas 2010 Cambridge University $127 ISBN: 0521895413 10000 ﺮ 3K, SN's, Clusters - Hunting the Cosmological Parameters with Precision Cosmology 785-004 Auth: Domingos Barbosa Antonio da Silva A 2010 Springer $149 ISBN: 9048165466 Pages: 218 % ا 10000 ﯽ4th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications - Delft, The Netherlands, October 16 -18 951-006 ۹۰ Auth: H. Paul Urbach Qifeng Yu 2018 Springer $159 ISBN: 9783319967066 Pages: 284 881-012 50 Greatest Mysteries Of The Universe 10000 ﺑﺎ ه Auth: Eicher David J 2007 Kalmbach Pub $44 ISBN: 9780890247211 Pages: 96 ﺖ 782-005 50 Years of Brown Dwarfs - From Prediction to Discovery to Forefront of Research (Astrophysics and Space Science 10000 ا Pages: 168 دAuth: Viki Joergens 2014 Springer $129 ISBN: 3319011618 ﻦYears of Quarks 10000 50 819-016 ا Auth: Harald Fritzsch Harald Fritzsch Murray 2015 World Scientific Publishing C $118 ISBN: 9814618098 Pages: 516 ﮫﺎی 729-011 924 Elementary Problems and Answers in Solar System Astronomy 10000 Auth: James A. Van Allen 1993 Univ of Iowa Pr $14 ISBN: 0877454345 Pages: 315 905-010 A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe 10000 Auth: Tom Findlay 2013 Grosvenor House Publishing L $38 ISBN: 9781781481417 Pages: 194 SOFTbank EBOOK Center , phone: 66403879-66493070 WWW.EBOOKCENTER.IR Page 1 of 117 (﷼)code title Original Price Our Price 811-034 A Brief History of Ancient Astrology 10000 ﺒﺎﺪ. Auth: Roger Beck 2007 Wiley-Blackwell $35 ISBN: 1405110740 Pages: 176 760-009 A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR - A Collection of Scientific Essays (Astrophysics and Space Scienc 10000 Auth: S. Y. Braude B. A. Dubinskii 2012 Springer $159 ISBN: 9400728336 Pages: 254 ﺮ 979-004 A Brief Introduction to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life 20000 Auth: Cesare Barbieri 2019 CRC Press $65 ISBN: 9780367191948 Pages: 146 ﻤﺎه ۹ ۸ 10000 ﺪ ﺪ(A Buyer's and User's Guide to Astronomical Telescopes & Binoculars (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series 528-06 Auth: James Mullaney 2007 Springer $29 ISBN: 1846284392 Pages: 232 ﻨﺪ ری A Buyer's and User's Guide to Astronomical Telescopes and Binoculars, 2nd Edition 10000 748-002 ا ISBN: 1461487323 Pages: 230 39$ ﻮ Auth: James Mullaney 2014 Springer ا ا ﻪ روزی ﻂ A Collection of Polish Works on Philosophical Problems of Time and Spacetime 10000 757-013 ۱ ISBN: 9048160391 Pages: 160 109$ ﺤﺎ Auth: Helena Eilstein 2011 Springer ۴ ﻮﻣﺎن 819-030 A College Course on Relativity and Cosmology 10000 ﯽ Auth: Ta-Pei Cheng 2015 Oxford University Press $89 ISBN: 0199693404 Pages: 352 ا 809-006 A Comet of the Enlightenment - Anders Johan Lexell's Life and Discoveries (Vita Mathematica) 10000 ﻦ Auth: Johan Sten 2014 Birkhauser ۱۰۰۰ $129 ISBN: 3319006177 Pages: 300 و 809-007 A Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition) 10000 ن Auth: Brendan Dooley 2014 Brill Academic Pub $216 ISBN: 9004183523 Pages: 453 ۲۶ 10000 اA Companion to Astronomy and Astrophysics - Chronology and Glossary with Data Tables 524-09 ﻮ Auth: Kenneth R. 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