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Cosmic Catastrophes: Exploding Stars, Black Holes, and Mapping the Universe
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This is quite an excellent book about stars in general, but it goes into more details concerning the eventual fate of stars, whether it be supernova, neutron stars / pulsars, or black holes. Most of the time, it is easy to read but it is still a notch higher than an introductory textbook, so it better fits the needs of an interested audience, such as a... »
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Chaco Astronomy: An Ancient American Cosmology
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During the summer solstice in 1977, researcher Anna Sofaer was high on a butte in New Mexico's western deserts when she observed a single shaft of light perfectly bisecting a rock art spiral. The spiral was created by the ancestors of the Native Americans known as the Pueblo people. Sofaer recognized the significance of this 'Sun Dagger' and commenced ... »
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The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex
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This is a splendid book which will be accessible to readers with relatively moderate technical and scientific background. Morowitz was a professor at Yale, now at George Mason U. in Virginia. An emergence occurs when something unexpected and unpredictable occurs out of a stable substrate condition or state. It is a "wow" moment. Morowitz's research ... »
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Astronomy: The Evolving Universe
Zeilik's book is one of the earliest systematic astronomy texts I ever read, beginning with the third edition back in 1982. That edition had four primary... »
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Modern Cosmology
I am enjoying this book a great deal. I enjoy the images we get from Hubble and other sources as much as anyone, but understanding comes from math. Thin... »
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