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Author:
Robin Heath
By Wooden Books
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 An excellent little book, 2001-08-21
If you do not appreciate the huge miracle of the sun and the moon read this book.
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Author:
Keith Critchlow
By Thames & Hudson
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Interesting but complex, 2006-10-01
I suppose understanding the geometry of the cosmos and the relationship with the Creator is not a simple topic and Professor Critchlow does a great job in making this concept easy to understand.
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Author:
Jude Currivan
By O Books
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Clearing up confusion, 2008-07-04
The Wave is a welcome addition to the resources out there, talking about the science of quantum physics, the new biology, etc, in the context of a greater spiritual understanding. It paves the way to closing the gap between a fixed and rigid religious interpretation of the way the world is, and a fixed and rigid scientific one. It shows the fixed and rigid approach to be a nonsense, because there is truth to what both sides are saying, if we are open to see it.
Jude Currivan's logical and lucid text is a great starting point for anyone who is looking at the science of waves and fields and all things quantum, and going, "What?"
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Author:
Milton D. Heifetz, Wil Tirion
By Cambridge University Press
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The most productive half-hour in my garden, ever!, 2007-01-15
For years I've gazed up at the stars and wondered how I could start to find out about the constellations; if only I'd known about this book I'd have had my answer.
It's brilliant, half an hour in the back garden and I'd found the Big Dipper, Polaris, the Little Dipper, Cassiopeia, and several others. Similarly, for ten years I'd seen a series of three stars in the sky and wondered what they were, now I know; the belt of Orion!
Simple steps, clear diagrams, measuring techniques, everything that you need to start is here. If you want to get to know the night sky, you could do no better than start here.
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Author:
James Mullaney
By Cambridge University Press
Beautiful, 2010-02-21
That's it; one word suffices.
Far nicer maps than the Cambridge Star Atlas, and just my cup of tea, the maps are clearer and there's more fun to be had when the hunt is on to find these beautiful star pairs.
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Author:
Neil deGrasse Tyson
By W. W. Norton & Co.
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The facts and fun behind the fall of a planet, 2009-05-17
There are definitely two sides to this book.
Neil Degrasse Tyson takes the scientific debate about Pluto's planetary status seriously and there is lots of real astronomy in this book. However, he is also an entertaining writer and catches the emotional attachment to Pluto as a planet that made its downgrading such a big deal, especially for children. He succeeds in bring the serious and fun elements together.
This book is an informative and accessible history of Pluto and of the changes in our knowledge of the solar system that have lead to a revisiting of our understanding of our little corner of the galaxy. There is enough of the detail to appreciate the real science, and to see the personalities involved in the debate about how to describe the findings to a wider audience.
He wants us to appreciate Pluto and its surroundings for what they are, and not just to learn a list of planets.
The emotional side of the debate makes the book stand out. This is a very human issue, and, through his role in the New York's American Museum of Natural History he became identified as the man who killed Pluto. The discoverer of Pluto had always defend his historic planet-finding moment. Thousands of school-children wrote in to protest at the potential downgrading of Pluto to dwarf planet. Their letters are scattered throughout the book and are great fun. Newspaper cartoonists had a great time with the topic too, and a great selection is included.
Over this book is a treasure-trove of good science and fun things, and well worth a read.
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Author:
Michael Benson
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Beautiful :), 2009-10-19
This book is amazing, the pictures of the planets with the moons over them, are my faverite.
The pictures are clear, bright and stunning. Worth every penney :)
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Author:
Colin Burgess, Francis French
By University of Nebraska Press
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One of the 5 books on spaceflight to have, 2008-07-29
Francis French and Colin Burgess' latest book travelled with me during a short trip to Gdansk/Poland last year, and it took me this week to read it from start to end. It was time very pleasantly spent - excellently written, and a smooth composition from the beginning to the end. If I hadn't come for some other things to see, I probably wouldn't have stopped reading before the last page would have been turned. That is quite an achievement for a non-fiction book.
Many of us had read the individual astronauts' autobiographies that are on the market. On those astronauts of course, little new could probably be said. However, French and Burgess unearth stories and backgrounds from those others that have not yet shared their life with the readers. In this context, I particularly enjoyed the extensive descriptions from Bill Anders, Rusty Schweickart, Donn Eisele that figure prominently in the book.
If I "missed something" after having read the first volume, it is the stories from NASA's competitor, the Soviet space programme. The first volume had covered the stories of Gagarin, Titov and Tereshkova. The 2nd volume only briefly mentions Komarov, and a longer paragraph on the joint flight of Soyuz 4 and 5. I feel a larger coverage of the parallel events in the Soviet Union would have been in
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Author:
John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
By Penguin
One of the most fabulous revelations afforded by modern cosmology is the fact that we are all stars, literally. The elements which comprise our bodies (like iron or oxygen) were all forged in the burning cores of distant suns, before being flung across the endless wastes of space by the enormous force of stellar explosions. Great stuff! Now well-known writer and respected astrophysicist John Gribbin has taken this fairy-tale bit of Big Science and used it as the central premise for a book: which describes how the cosmos made us, and what we can therefore make of the cosmos. It's essentially a biography of man from the molecular point of view, with diversions into evolution, astronomy, geology, extra terrestrial life, and so on. One of the more poetic notions covered is that of "panspermia", the idea that the seeds of life are continually being carried across the universe--like so many sycamore keys in an autumn wood. The author definitely sides with those who believe the answer to life is "out there". As always with John Gribbin, the writing is fresh and accessible, the thinking clear if occasionally complex. The real joy of Stardust is its perspective: in contrast to so many...
Luminous stuff by science-writing luminary!, 2001-09-14
John Gribbin's work is always readable, and particularly fascinating to those with a non-scientific background like myself. But with Stardust he excels himself. Taking the simple premiss that everything in the world (including yourself!) is made out of the hydrogen and helium from the very first stars of the Big Bang, Gribbin weaves a tale as luminous as any he has ever written. In prose that is pure and highly entertaining, this old war-horse of science writing provides a skilled explanation of a difficult subject. Fascinating stuff!
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