NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe
by Terence Dickinson
Amazon Price: CDN$ 21.95
Customer Review: This book lives up to all the reviews I had read. It is easy to follow and the photographs are stunning. Should be in every beginning astronomers library.

A Brief History of Time: The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition
by Stephen Hawking
Amazon Price: CDN$ 15.33
Customer Review: Like some other reviewers, it took a few tries spaced a few years apart to finally get through it. If you try this book keep in mind that it's targetted to give someone with little more than highschoo...

The Illustrated A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
Amazon Price: CDN$ 28.22
Customer Review: This book is truly a gem.. small volume but packed with a density of information..
Explore fascinating topics you could not think about in your wildest DREAMS.. topics are Black holes, Entropy, ...

A Briefer History of Time
by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
Amazon Price: CDN$ 16.89
Customer Review: This book offers the Layman more than a lucid view of Dark Energy/Matter and String Theory...It offers us a brilliant new way to think about the Universe that was only grasped by the very few up until...

Cosmos
by Carl Sagan
Amazon Price: CDN$ 9.89
Customer Review: Even though some of the materials have become dated, one would have to label this text as being a 'classic'. Carl Sagan had an easily understood and flowing writing style that opened up the field of ...