Ann Finkbeiner, Free Press, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5216-1
With this accessible and insightful book, science journalist Finkbeiner reveals the story behind today's most exciting astronomical research program: the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a massive technological undertaking whose results have allowed...
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Ann K. Finkbeiner, Author Free Press $24 (273p) ISBN 978-0-684-82965-4
Finkbeiner, a medical and science writer in Baltimore, lost her son, T.C. (Thomas Carl), in 1987 in a train wreck, when he was 18. Determined to learn what researchers had to say about the long-term effects on parents of a child's death, she found...
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Ann K. Finkbeiner, Author Viking Books $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-03489-5
If necessity is the mother of invention, then the U.S. government's midwife for much of the Cold War was a small, brilliant and fiercely independent cadre of physicists who assembled each summer to make scientific reality out of pie-in-the-sky ideas.
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