books: comets popular

books: comets popular

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Comets popular

David Levy's Guide to Observing and Discovering Comets

David H. Levy

Cambridge University Press, 2003

A look at the "Guide to observing...."
David begins his book in an unsuspecting manner with a quick look back at how comets effected the lives of our ancestors; before the age of telescopes. Briefly, he demonstrates that comets were recognized by not only early scientist, but poets and "fallen princes." ...

Deep Sky Objects: The Best And Brightest from Four Decades of Comet Chasing

David H Levy

Prometheus Books, 2005

Catalog of objects that might look like comets
Perhaps the most famous astronomers of our time, Mr. Levy is one of the most successful comet discoverers in history (actually he's tied for third place in the number of comets found). His finds include the Shoemaker-Levy comet that crashed so dramatically into ...

The Path of Minor Planets: A Novel

Picador, 2001

Necessary read:
This is a gorgeous, gorgeous book. I picked it up soon after it came out because the cover caught my eye; was instantly curious after the description of a fiction book focused on astronomy and the summary on the back. I expected to like it, and after my first reading ...

Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions

Tony Hallam

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Another Nail in the Coffin of Simplicity and Uniformitarianism
I guess this is a tough little book for some. Certainly other reviewers have said so. It's not mere armchair science or Discovery Channel drama. Rather it's a lucid and well supported statement of an hypothesis, that the five great extinction events at the ends of the ...

The Female Gaze: Women As Viewers of Popular Culture

Lorraine Gamman

Real Comet Press, 1991

Dated
This book is a bit too dated, but is a good foundation for studying femenism related to culture.

Impact!: The Threat of Comets and Asteroids

Gerrit L. Verschuur

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

The definitive book on impact hazards
The chance of Earth being struck by a large asteroid or comet is neither more nor less now than it has ever been. If nothing else, this book will bring out that fact. So for all the folks who want to believe in the magical or the preposterous, such as Nostradamus, ...

Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets (Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated)

Tom Van Flandern

North Atlantic Books, 1993

Brand new thinking about timeless astronomical issues
Tom Van Flandern's book adds a new dimension to cosmology--not only does it present a novel approach to timeless issues, it stands up to the closest scientific scrutiny. The author has a proven track record and top notch credentials, so when he begins his hard-hitting ...

Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Sara Schechner

Princeton University Press, 1999

In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until ...

Comet, Revised

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

Ballantine Books, 1997

Ameteur and Armchair Astronomers will love this book
I would classify myself as the Armchair type - I don't own a telescope, and shamefully I do not know my constellations, but I have enjoyed many popular books on the subject. Having just finished reading this book I am sorely tempted to get a telescope or at least go ...

The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition

Claire Brock

Totem Books, 2008

A concise biography of Caroline Herschel, but biased?
This book can be credited for giving a well-paced review of the life of Caroline Herschel, and her career in both music and astronomy. However, having read other books about Caroline Herschel, including her Memoirs and from a book "The Herschel Chronicles" written ...

Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets: The Search for the Million Megaton Menace That Threatens Life on Earth

Duncan Steel, Arthur C. Clarke

Wiley, 1997

Please create an audio abridged version ...
To the publisher I would appreciate it if the publisher could produce an audio adaptation of this book. I would love to listen to this while I drive to work and to let my 16 month old son listen to it as a bedtime story. My goal is to expose him to some of my ...

Popular astronomy. A concise elementary treatise on the sun, planets, satellites and comets.
Michigan Historical Reprint Series

Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 2005

This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.

Wonders of the Sky: Observing Rainbows, Comets, Eclipses, the Stars and Other Phenomena
Fred Schaaf

Dover Publications, 1984

Fascinating layman's guide to naked eye astronomy explores eclipses, coronas, mock suns, halos, sun pillars, and more. 56 illustrations and photos supplement the text. "...practical, detailed, and informative commentary on the heavens...written with care and a sense of delight in the visual pleasure around and above us..." ? Astronomy Magazine ...

The Mystery of Comets (Smithsonian Library of the Solar System)
Fred Lawrence Whipple

Smithsonian Books, 1985

In this book, one of the world?s foremost authorities on comets takes us on a voyage of discovery from the earliest speculations on the meaning of comets to his own pioneering research into both the nature of comets and the mysteries of our solar system. Professor Whipple begins by examining the earliest observations and notions of comets from the ...