Books by Bob Berman and Complete Book Reviews
Bob Berman, Author . Holt/Times $25 (210p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7328-7
Berman (Cosmic Adventure
) has written a slim volume filled with enticing scientific tidbits. He expands on the "Strange Universe" column he writes for Astronomy
magazine and spends much of his time discussing things astronomical,...
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Bob Berman. Little, Brown, $25.99 (300p) ISBN 978-0-316-09101-5
We won't take the Sun for granted any longer if astronomy popularizer Berman, who writes for Astronomy and for years wrote Discover's "Night Watchman" column, has anything to say about it. Though average in the astronomical scheme of the cosmos, the
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Bob Berman. Little, Brown, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-21740-8
Veteran astronomy columnist Berman (Strange Universe) traverses the world as well as the archives to assemble a cheerful collection of popular science essays connected by their relation to movement. Whether it is the expansion of the universe or the
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Bob Berman. Little, Brown, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-31130-4
Electromagnetic radiation—light—is everywhere, but it’s not all visible to the naked eye. Astronomy writer Berman (Zoom) runs through a fascinating history of the rainbow’s invisible bands in this breezy, accessible read. Berman draws from topics as
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Bob Berman, Author, Alan McKnight, Illustrator William Morrow & Company $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-688-14495-1
A breezy miscellany of essays, this stimulating second book from Berman (Secrets of the Night Sky), astronomy columnist for Discover magazine, is a compendium of little-known facts, controversies, unexplained phenomena and unorthodox theories. With...
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Bob Berman. Little, Brown, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-51135-3
From the Big Bang and colliding galaxies, to Earth-based mass extinctions and nuclear accidents, Astronomy magazine columnist Berman (The Sun’s Heartbeat) takes science buffs on a far-ranging and enthusiastic tour of cataclysms, local and remote....
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