Chet Raymo, Author . Walker $25 (242p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1369-8
"[W]hat kind of intimacy can one have with a universe of 100 billion galaxies, each galaxy containing one trillion stars...?" asks astronomer and Boston Globe science columnist Raymo (365 Starry Nights, etc.). He offers two answers. "Firs
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Chet Raymo, Author . Walker $23 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1402-2
Raymo (An Intimate Look at the Night Sky), a physicist at Stonehill College, agrees with Walt Whitman that "there is a sense in which the least thing contains the all." The least things in Raymo's universe occur on a one-mile path he has
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Chet Raymo, Author . Walker $22 (193p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1433-6
In The Path
, Raymo told the stories of the places he passes on his daily walk from his home in North Easton, Mass., to his workplace at Stonehill College. Here the former Boston
Globe
science columnist treats us to a similar meditation on another...
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Chet Raymo, Author . Walker $23 (194p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1494-7
The latest from noted science writer Raymo (An Intimate Look at the Night Sky
) isn't merely a history of the prime meridian, the zero-longitude line passing through eastern England that is the starting point for measuring both space and time on
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Chet Raymo, Author . Cowley $19.95 (284p) ISBN 978-1-56101-286-2
In his first novel since The Dork of Cork
(1993), Raymo imagines the life of the patron saint of lovers, St. Valentine, about whom very little is known. Narrated by Julius Marius Favus, a gladiator trainer–turned–Roman jailor, and...
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Chet Raymo, Author Warner Books $11.99 (354p) ISBN 978-0-446-51706-5
``Begin with beauty,'' commands the opening sentence of this powerful novel, suffused with a 19th-century Romantic sensibility; its trite, although heartfelt, closing plea--``Hold me''--encapsulates the narrative's shift in focus from wide-ranging...
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Chet Raymo, Author Walker & Company $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1338-4
Responding in part to the rise of millennial-driven New Age spirituality, Raymo (Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God) writes along the tender edges of mystery that bind off objective science from religious faith. Using a light...
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Chet Raymo, Author Viking Books $17.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-82890-6
In this first novel by Boston Globe science columnist and nonfiction author ( Honey from Stone and Soul of the Night ), the portents, superstitions and papal machinations of the impending millennium furnish a provocative setting for interplay...
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Chet Raymo, Author Viking Books $18.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-83315-3
Boston Globe science columnist Raymo eases the reader gently--perhaps too gently--into a dozen social and ethical problems arising in science. Beginning where science itself began, with the patterns of the night sky, he glides through genetic...
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Chet Raymo, Author Ruminator Books $22 (212p) ISBN 978-1-886913-29-5
""All of my life has been a relearning to pray--a letting go of incantational magic, petition, and the vain repetition `Me, Lord, me,' instead watching attentively for the light that burns at the center of every star, every cell, every living...
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Chet Raymo, Author, Michael McCurdy, Illustrator Ruminator Books $15 (210p) ISBN 978-1-886913-11-0
Originally published in 1985, astronomer Raymo's essays on the night sky explore the links between faith and reason. (Sept.)
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