Hardcover, 222 pages
English language
Published Dec. 25, 2017 by W.W. Norton & Company.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Neil does a fantastic job keeping this bite sized intro to astrophysics rolling along at a quick, and interesting, pace. Leaves you wanting more.
