Humble Book Bundle: Astronomy

[julianh72]

Fancy buying yourself a nice little Christmas present? Check out the Humble Book Bundle: Astronomy offer:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/astronomy-book-bundle

Choose how much you want to pay, and download yourself a few astronomy ebooks (in ePub or PDF format). The asking price is ridiculously cheap (although you can pay as much as you want!), and some of the proceeds go to charity - the default charity is the Challenger Center for Space Science Education:
http://www.challenger.org/

US$1.00 to US$7.99 will get you 4 ebooks:
A Stargazing Program for Beginners - A Pocket Field Guide
Weird Astronomy - Tales of Unusual, Bizarre, and Other Hard-To-Explain Observations
Racing the Moon's Shadow with Concorde 001
Rock Legends - The Asteroids and Their Discoverers

US$8.00 to US$14.99 will unlock an additional 5 titles, and anything over US$15.00 will give you a total of 13 astronomy-related titles.

Well worth a look!

[Saturnine]

Thanks for the heads up Julian, certainly worth a look for the price.

Jeff

[luka]

Does anyone have any comments about the offered books?

[julianh72]

I just bought the basic 4-book pack. They're all published by Springer, a reputable technical book publisher. I'm well into the Concorde book, which is a fascinating story of how the first Concorde prototype was converted into a supersonic astronomical platform to chase totality of the 1973 solar eclipse for 80 minutes. I think my $7 was well spent on that book alone, so the other 3 will be a nice bonus!

[keioffice]

thank you for sharing!