Abducted by another book...
So, kgkofmel wanted to go to the Borders last night after dinner to pick up her copy of HPatDH. Since last week I discovered a bag with books I'd forgotten I bought, I was resolved to NOT BUY ANYTHING until my reading stack gets a lot smaller. And I'm not interested in the new Harry Potter tome. (Yep, I'm the one.)
On the bargain rack on the way in, I saw this very large book called Cosmos - A Field Guide with a photo of the Sombrero galaxy on the front.
Well, as you may know, the Sombrero galaxy contains, like, hundreds of billions of stars, and therefore has a tremendous gravitational pull. I just couldn't escape. Plus it was only $19.99.
Anyway, I went home with this coffee table book stuck to me. It's a really amazing book, with recent information on everything from our own solar system (uh huh, eight planets) to star formation, the Big Bang, the Big Crunch/Freeze, dark matter, tons of Hubble images, etc. And the science is discussed in a style and vocabulary that I think most people could understand.
A really beautiful book.
(Curse you, Borders!)
On the bargain rack on the way in, I saw this very large book called Cosmos - A Field Guide with a photo of the Sombrero galaxy on the front.
Well, as you may know, the Sombrero galaxy contains, like, hundreds of billions of stars, and therefore has a tremendous gravitational pull. I just couldn't escape. Plus it was only $19.99.
Anyway, I went home with this coffee table book stuck to me. It's a really amazing book, with recent information on everything from our own solar system (uh huh, eight planets) to star formation, the Big Bang, the Big Crunch/Freeze, dark matter, tons of Hubble images, etc. And the science is discussed in a style and vocabulary that I think most people could understand.
A really beautiful book.
(Curse you, Borders!)