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In this new 2023 high-definition program, learn all about famous astronomers and astrophysicists who have significantly advanced our understanding of the universe. Who were Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Galileo, Edwin Hubble, Vera Rubin, Stephen Hawking, and Neil De Grasse? What were their major discoveries, theories, and contributions to astronomy and astrophysics? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with exciting videos...

"With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the...

Tyson shares 101 letters from people across the globe who have sought him out in search of scientific answers. A luminous companion to the phenomenal bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by revealing his...

Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson? A young boy who felt the universe call to him during a grade-school planetarium visit. A teenager who gave lectures on astronomy. One of hte most well-known astrophysicists in the world and the director of the Hayden Planetarium.

In this Unique Book About Space Science, author CAP Saucier combines up-to-date information about the universe and the science of astrophysics with a biographical portrait of Neil deGrasse Tyson, the popular astrophysicist, science communicator, and host of FOX TV's Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Including awesome images from the Hubble Space Telescope and quotes from Tyson himself this story of one man's successful career in and lifelong love of space...

In the 1950s, a young woman leaves the Swiss mountains for the shores of Beirut, where she falls in love with a quirky astrophysicist. The pair live in bliss until the civil war threatens their peaceful existence.

"In Robert Pobi's thriller Do No Harm, a series of suicides and accidental deaths in the medical community are actually well-disguised murders and only Lucas Page can see the pattern and discern the truth that no one else believes. Lucas Page is a polymath, astrophysicist, professor, husband, father of five adopted children, bestselling author, and ex-FBI agent-emphasis on "ex." Severely wounded after being caught in an explosion, Page left the FBI...

This memoir of the renowned astrophysicist tells the story of how he overcame his personal demons, including an impoverished childhood and life of crime as well as an addiction to crack cocaine and entrenched racism.