Posts Tagged ‘science’

Death by Black Hole

A collection of favorite essays on the cosmos, written by a well-known American Museum of Natural History astrophysicist and author of Origins, includes the title essay, “Holy Wars,” “The Search for Life in the Universe,” and “Hollywood Nights.”

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The Martian

“Originally self-published as an ebook in 2011 and subsequently published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Crown Publishers … and as a trade paperback by Broadway Books … in 2014”–Title page verso.

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Peterson First Guide to Astronomy

Completely revised with new photographs and covering astronomical events through 2019, a latest edition of an introduction to astronomy for beginners includes images from the Messenger mission to Mercury and explains how to determine star positions from provided maps. Original.

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