Review:Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the best, and Space Chronicles is a fantastic read! Plenty of history, well blended with Tyson's unstoppable passion for space technology and exploration. I read the whole thing, from cover to cover, and send it to my best friend. Read more

Review:This is a first-rate example of how to write about science for a general audience. Its good-humored and fair account of the controversy over whether Pluto is a planet, a Trans-Neptunian object, a Kuiper body, or any or all of the above is gripping and fascinating. I cannot praise Neil deGrasse Tyson too highly. He has justified his claim to be the successor to the late, great Carl Sagan, who would have applauded THE PLUTO FILES. Read more

Review:The book is indeed BRIEF and I was mildly shocked when it arrived. My last physics book was easily 20 times heavier. The author no doubt knows his subject matter and has a gift for language and simplification. He even waxes poetic at times. Perhaps it's no accident he is Italian. I frankly cannot imagine an English or German physicist being so lyrical - nor brief.

The lessons as such are really not "lessons" in the sense of what you get at graduate school or even college. The reason for t... Read more

Review:This book may appeal to those who desire an armchair philosophy to wrap around their atheism,… but not to those expecting anything approaching a physics lecture, or even to those who have a familiarity with philosophy of mind, or philosophy of physics.

While I sympathize with the general ontology presented,… what Carroll calls “Poetic Naturalism”,… a kind scientific justified philosophy,…… the book itself is too verbose. It does not present enough physics detail to maintain interest. It d... Read more

Review:Enjoyable read, fun and interesting, Not overbearing or too technical to enjoy. Neil is a great writer and this is essentially a collection of essays from his published work in magazines. A wide collection of interesting topics, Read more

Review:The first two thirds (almost) of the book covers practical physics. It is very entertaining and interesting because it deals with thing and events that we all can relate to - Like Newton's laws of motion, electronics and the why and how everyday events happen the way they do. It was an interesting diversion from my usual read. I would have given this part of the book four stars.

The remainder of the book (over two thirds) deals with Astro Physics which it seems is really Walter Lewin's ... Read more

Review:A truly heroic effort to compile a history of physics from the pre-Greeks to the present, at least the first part of which should be accessible to the educated reader who is willing to expend a little mental effort. By and large, the book is successful in setting forth the thinking of the early natural philosophers Democritus (460-370BC), Plato (427-347BC), Aristotle (384-322BC) and their contemporaries and in describing the importance of the ideas of Galileo (1564-1642), Newton (1643-1727), F... Read more

Review:I got it for my brother for Christmas. I asked him what he thought about it but he said a bunch of stuff I didn't quite understand but he was smiling while he talked about it so it was probably good stuff. Read more

Review:An excellant book. It helps if you have some introduction to physics (elementary level) to fully appreciate the quality of this book but having said that, all it really takes is the motivation to want to know more about the subject matter. It's presented in a very well laid out and logical manner with a touch of easily understood math. I highly recommend it to anyone curious about the universe. Read more

Review:This profound Carl Sagan book does not include the wonderful color illustrations as the earlier version contains. Consequently, it is like a National Graphic Magazine without the pictures.

I love the words of Dr. Sagan, but words plus the spectacular pictures truly make "music."

Following is the edition you should get. I threw away the "Pale Blue Dot" paperback I received yesterday and today ordered a used hardback:

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Hardcover: 429 pages
Publisher: Rando... Read more