My review of “The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space” by Jim Lebans – an enjoyable and well-written book about astronomy for beginners.
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My review of “The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space” by Jim Lebans – an enjoyable and well-written book about astronomy for beginners. Hubble: The Mirror on the Universe by Robin Kerrod and Carole Stott is the ultimate coffee table book about space. The front cover is eye-catching and beautiful, and even better, the photos inside are too. This is the kind of book that makes me love writing nonfiction book reviews. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku is the first book that I’m reviewing here that I had previously reviewed on my old site. I am hoping to eventually rewrite and repost all of my book reviews, which considering how many [...] After reviewing Death from the Skies on Thursday, I decided to go on a space kick and focus on writing reviews of astronomy-related books for the next week or so. Since I happen to be a little on the obsessive side when it comes to astronomy (okay, more than a little obsessive, but that’s all [...] I just finished Death From the Skies: These are the Ways the World will End by Philip Plait, and I have to say – I loved it. I was originally turned on to Plait when I watched a B movie in the local planetarium based off his first book, Bad Astronomy. Intrigued, I checked out [...] The first time I saw The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J Maarten Troost at the library, I was pretty shocked. That is *ahem* a very memorable title, and I remember wondering who would ever read that book. |
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