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  title info:
    title: Death by black hole
    sub title: and other cosmic quandaries
  name:
    name part: Tyson, Neil deGrasse.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2007
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 384 pages ; 22 cm.
  table of contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue : The beginning of science -- Section 1 : The nature of knowledge : the challenges of knowing what is knowable in the universe -- 1. Coming to our senses -- 2. On Earth as in the heavens -- 3. Seeing isn't believing -- 4. The information trap -- 5. Stick-in-the-mud science -- Section 2 : The knowledge of nature : the challenges of discovering the contents of the cosmos -- 6. Journeys from the center of the Sun -- 7. Planet parade -- 8. Vagabonds of the solar system -- 9. The five points of Lagrange -- 10. Antimatter matters -- Section 3 : Ways and means of nature : how nature presents herself to the inquiring mind -- 11. The importance of being constant -- 12. Speed limits -- 13. Going ballistic -- 14. On being dense -- 15. Over the rainbow -- 16. cosmic windows -- 17. Colors of the cosmos -- 18. Cosmic plasma -- 19. Fire and ice -- Section 4 : The meaning of life : the challenges and triumphs of knowing how we got here -- 20. Dust to dust -- 21. Forged in the stars -- 22. Send in the clouds -- 23. Goldilocks and the three planets -- 24. Water, water -- 25. Living space -- 26. Life in the universe -- 27. Our radio bubble --
  table of contents: Section 5 : When the universe turns bad : all the ways the cosmos wants to kill us -- 28. Chaos in the solar system -- 29. Coming attractions -- 30. ends of the world -- 31. Galactic engines -- 32. Knock 'em dead -- 33. Death by black hole -- Section 6 : Science and culture : the ruffled interface between cosmic discovery and the public's reaction to it -- 34. Things people say -- 35. Fear of numbers -- 36. On being baffled -- 37. Footprints in the sands of science -- 38. Let there be dark -- 39. Hollywood nights -- Section 7 : Science and God : when ways of knowing collide -- 40. In the beginning -- 42. Holy wars -- 42. The perimeter of ignorance -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.
  note: Neil deGrasse Tyson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-368 ) and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: zs-----
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Exobiology
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    geographic: Solar system
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Religion and science
    genre: Popular works
  classification: QB982 .T965 2007
  classification: 523.8/875
  identifier: 9780393062243
  identifier: 0393062244
  identifier: 9780393330168 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0393330168 (pbk.)
  identifier: 2006022058
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006022058.html
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 060703
    record change date: 20151110072806.0
    record identifier: in00002418174