Marcia Bartusiak, Author . Pantheon $25.99 (337p) ISBN 978-0-375-42429-8
Science writer Bartusiak (Through a Universe Darkly
) vividly tells the story behind the discovery that changed our cozy view of the universe. One hundred years ago, the Milky Way was all the cosmos we knew, “a lone, star-filled oasis...
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Marcia Bartusiak, Author HarperCollins Publishers $27.5 (383p) ISBN 978-0-06-018310-3
In 1988 in a playful article in the journal Nature , astrophysicists Joseph Silk and James Peebles ``made book'' on the then-current theories that might explain the Big Bang's missing mass. Given the huge gaps in theoretical astronomy that remain,...
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Marcia Bartusiak, Author National Academy Press $24.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-309-06987-8
Einstein is hot this year; not only has his brain traveled cross-country but his personal and scientific lives are being explored in depth. Gravity waves aren't as well-known as the more familiar theory of E=mc2 (which is getting its own book this...
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Marcia Bartusiak, Author Crown Publishers $19.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1202-9
Bartusiak is a specialist in astrophysics who in 1982 won the American Institute of Physics Writing Prize. Buffs of the genre will welcome her attempt to render the history of this century's astrophysics, up to its merger with quantum particle...
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Marcia Bartusiak, Author Berkley Publishing Group $14 (256p) ISBN 978-0-425-18620-6
Einstein is hot this year; not only has his brain traveled cross-country but his personal and scientific lives are being explored in depth. Gravity waves aren't as well known as the more familiar theory of E=mc2 (which is getting its own book this...
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Marcia Bartusiak. Yale Univ, $27.50 (240p) ISBN 978-0-300-21085-9
Bartusiak (Archives of the Universe), professor in the Graduate Program in Science Writing at MIT, reveals the story and science of black holes in all their “stark and alien weirdness.” Black holes begin, and end, with gravity. The first person to...
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