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• The Universe and Beyond (Universe & Beyond)

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• Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon

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• Historic Storms of New England

  This volume was published in 1891 and tells of its gales,hurricanes, tornadoes, showers with thunder and lightning, great snow storms, rains, freshets, floods, droughts, coldwinters, hot summers, avalanches, earthquakes, dark days,comets, aurora-borealis, phenomena in the heavens, wrecksalong the coast, with incidents and anecdotes, amusing andpathetic.

• The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla

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• Life on Other Worlds: The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate

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