Astrophysics for people in a hurry

by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Hardcover, 222 pages

English language

Published Dec. 25, 2017 by W.W. Norton & Company.

ISBN:: 978-0-393-60939-4
OCLC Number:: 959880154

(41 reviews)

A short book for almost all ages, it’s simply astrophysics for people in a hurry, taught by acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to know how the universe works!

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omnissiah reviewed Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

An excellent book to get acquinted with the basics

5 stars

I read the book to know about the basics of astrophysics.

Lasperi@kirja.casa reviewed Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Packed with info

4 stars

Really good book about basics of astrophysics. Some may think that it pours information a bit too much. Thus some knowledge on the topic before hand, helps digest the book. Author describes the topics nicely and vividly making the book easy to read.

Michael Shotter reviewed Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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4 stars

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Endless reviewed Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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4 stars

A fascinating survey of the wild and incredulous of astrophysics. The audio is read by the author, which was a pleasure and was particularly effective at conveying his passion and imagination for the subject.

jcheshire reviewed Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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5 stars

This book is fabulous. I was half a chapter in when I asked for a highlighter to mark some of the more illuminating and well written passages. I can’t recommend it enough.

Bridgman reviewed Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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3 stars

This is a book I'd meant to buy but didn't. Then I was futzing around on my library's home page and found that I could take out the audio version of this and hear it on my Kindle Fire, which I'd just bought (OK, I'm a late adopter to this, but I was emailing people in 1994, you know), so I downloaded it. It's not the kind of book you want to take in that way. Not that the science in it isn't friendly to non-scientists, i.e., pretty much everybody, but no matter how easy-to-digest such things are, you want to be able to read them at your own pace and, as or more importantly, re-read parts of them.