Ferris, Timothy. The Universe and Eye, with illustrations by Ingram Pinn, London, Pavilion Books, 1993; San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1993.

Ferris, Timothy.  The Mind's Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context, New York, Bantam Books (selection of The Book-of-the-Month-Club) 1992.  Ferris explores inner as well as outer space in these essays on the human mind, the search for extraterrestrial (and thus nonhuman) intelligence, and their intersection. Other chapters look at comet strikes as a source of species extinction; near-death experience; apocalyptic prophecies; information theory; and the origin of laughter.
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Ferris, Timothy, editor.  World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics, Boston, Little, Brown, (main selection, The Book-of-the-Month-Club), 1991. Paperback editions, Boston, Little, Brown, 1993, 1999. A well-chosen collection of writings, mostly by scientists such as Feynman, Planck, Hardy, Turing, etc.
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Ferris, Timothy.  Coming of Age in the Milky Way, New York, William Morrow & Co., Inc. (main selection, The Book-of-the-Month-Club), 1988.

Feynman, Richard P.  The Character of Physical Law by Richard Phillips Feynman, Modern Library, 1994. 

Linde, Andrei.   Inflation and Quantum Cosmology, Academic Press, Boston, 1990.

Linde, Andrei.   Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology, Harwood Academic Publishers, Chur, Switzerland, 1990.

Lovell, Bernard.  Emerging Cosmology 1984.  Written by one of the world's preeminent astronomers, this book aims at a comprehensive theory of creation, evolution, and present structure of the entire physical universe.
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Lujan, Barbara F., White, Ronald J.  Human Physiology in Space.  The National Space Biomedical Research Institute’s easy-to-read textbook on what happens to the human body in space. Conveniently divided into chapters on the various systems of the body (e.g. cardiovascular, muscular, sensory). 

Matthews, Clifford N. and Roy Abraham Varghese, editors.  Cosmic Beginnings and Human Ends: Where Science and Religion Meet, Chicago, Open Court, 1995.

Soter, Steven & Neil deGrasse Tyson, editors.  Cosmic Frontiers: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge, The New Press, 2001, in press.  A collection of twenty essays on the modern frontier of astrophysics, with commentary and historical material added by the editors. A books conceived along with the opening of the new Hayden Planetarium and Rose Center for Earth and Space.

Tyson, Neil deGrasse, Charles Liu, & Robert Irion.  One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos, Joseph Henry Press of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000.  The connections of astrophysics with everyday life. The companion book to the opening of the new Hayden
Planetarium and Rose Center for Earth and Space.
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Tyson, Neil deGrasse.  The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist, Doubleday (New York), 2000. Autobiographical reflections.

Tyson, Neil deGrasse. Just Visiting this Planet, 334 pgs, Doubleday (New York), 1998.  A collection of six years from a Q & A column written monthly for Star Date Magazine. Sequel to Merlin's Tour of the Universe (see below) that contains chapters of questions about astronomy and space asked by the general public and answered through the pen name "Merlin". (Italian Translation: 1998 - Piemme, Italy)

Tyson, Neil deGrasse.  Universe Down to Earth, 276 pgs. Columbia University Press (New York), 1994.  Essays on special topics in astronomy that evolved principally from invited talks and lectures delivered for introductory college astronomy classes at Columbia University, University of Maryland, and University of Texas.  The book uses creative "household" analogies to help bring complex topics of the universe to the lay reader.

Tyson, Neil deGrasse.  Merlin's Tour of the Universe, 300 pgs. Columbia University Press (New York), 1989. Thirteen chapters of questions about astronomy and space asked by the general public and answered through the pen name "Merlin".
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RECENT ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

Ferris, Timothy.  "The Light and the Dark," Automobile, March 2000.

Ferris, Timothy.  "A Space Station?" The New York Times Magazine, November 28, 1999. Reprinted in MAX Magazine, Germany, 1999.

Ferris, Timothy.  "If Forced to Choose," American Scientist, November-December 1999.

Ferris, Timothy.  "The Last Bit: Is Information Theory the Answer to Everything?" Forbes ASAP Big Issue IV, October 4, 1999.

Ferris, Timothy.  "Interstellar Spaceflight," Scientific American Presents: The Future of Space Exploration, Spring 1999.

Freedman, Wendy.  "The Expansion Rate and Size of the Universe", Scientific American, 1998.

Freedman, Wendy.  "Hubble Measures the Expanding Universe", NASA News.

McKay, Christopher.  "Bringing Life to Mars", Scientific American, 1999.  McKay suggests that climate models suggest that human beings could transform the Red Planet into a more Earth-like world using current technologies.

Mullen, Leslie.  "Galactic Habitable Zones", Astrobiology News, July 2001.  Our Solar System seems to have qualities that make it truly unique. Do these qualities make the Sun one of the few stars in the Galaxy capable of supporting complex life? 

"A LIFE BEYOND EARTH" with Timothy Ferris.  Two-hour PBS television special (1999).
What does the great beyond hold? Find out if we really do have fellow travelers among the stars.
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"THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE", ninety-minute television science special; U.S. premier, PBS network, November 20, 1985; also broadcast in the United Kingdom, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Venezuela, and Brazil. Inaugural release, PBS Home Video, 1991; laserdisc release, Pacific Arts Video, 1992; CD-ROM release, The Voyager Company, 1993.
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"INFINITY", the story of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman (1996).  This film portrays Feynman's early life, his family, and his involvement with the Manhatten Project.  Stars Matthew Broderick and Patricia Arquette as his wife, Arlene.
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NASA Video Gallery - Guide to digital video and animation related to NASA and space exploration.

AUDIOCASSETTES

Ferris, Timothy.  Author and narrator, The Whole Shebang, 1997; The Red Limit, 1996; The Mind's Sky, 1992; Coming of Age in the Milky Way, 1988 (Los Angeles, Dove Books).

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AstroWeb contains links to nearly 3,000 sites containing astronomy-related information, from to finding telescopes in your area, to hunting for abstracts of astronomy papers. There is also a search option to help with the site's exhaustive archives.

http://www.marssociety.org - A site devoted to furthering the goal of the exploration and settlement of the Red Planet.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) homepage. 
Ames Research Center 
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) homepage.
Kennedy Space Center 
NASA Education Resources 
Space Physics Data System 

http://www.pbs.org/lifebeyondearth/index.html - Companion site to the PBS film by Timothy Ferris.

PhysLink - This physics and astronomy megasite has links to hundreds of other sites. Includes sites on astronomy information and photographs, asteroids, mission home pages, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

http://www.plantetary.org - The nonprofit, nongovernmental Planetary Society was founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman to encourage the exploration of our solar system and the search for extraterrestrial life.

http://www.seti-inst.edu/Welcome.html - The SETI Institute serves as an institutional home for scientific and educational projects relevant to the nature, distribution, and prevalence of life in the universe. 

http://www.space.com/ - Read, listen to or watch daily news stories about space industry happenings and space science features.