- Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds (Astronomers' Universe)
- The Pendulum Paradigm: Variations on a Theme and the Measure of Heaven and Earth
- Introducing the Stars: Formation, Structure and Evolution (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
- The Pillars of Creation: Giant Molecular Clouds, Star Formation, and Cosmic Recycling
- Going Underground: The Science and History of Falling Through the Earth