Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson Audiobook (MP3 CD) NEW

from strandbooks

Starting my 2018 reading with a bang...a Big Bang. I got lost in a lot of the science, for example the parts regarding the chemistry and the types of wavelengths and light because I was constantly thinking "but how do they know that? How did someone figure that out?" It makes sense that my favori...

from ennuiprayer

Great book. Listened to the audio version... Never realized how soothing Neil deGrasse Tyson's was until now. Had to rewind several times because of it.

from sunnydrk

Interesting but, a lot of detail and for people with a more advanced understanding. The best parts were the non-technical parts.

from bell7

Neil deGrasse Tyson, whom you might recognize from his podcast StarTalk as well as a myriad other projects, writes about a variety of topics in astrophysics, breaking down such heady concepts as relativity, dark matter, dark energy - basically life, the universe and everything. The whole book is ...

from KamGeb

The first chapter was hard to get through, but after that it became much more interesting. It was such a fast read. There were nuggets of information that were really interesting or said in a way I had never heard before. My favorite line in the book is to understand how dense a pulsar is "imagin...