Letters from an Astrophysicist
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xv, 247 pages : color illustration ; 20 cm
Tyson shares 101 letters from people across the globe who have sought him out in search of scientific answers.
Contents:
Preface -- Prologue: a memoir, of sorts -- I. Ethos -- Chapter 1: Hope -- Chapter 2: Extraordinary claims -- Chapter 3: Musings -- II. Cosmos -- Chapter 4: Hate mail -- Chapter 5: Science denial -- Chapter 6: Philosophy -- III. Pathos -- Chapter 7: Life and death -- Chapter 8: Tragedy -- Chapter 9: To believe or not to believe -- IV. Kairos -- Chapter 10: School days -- Chapter 11: Parenting -- Chapter 12: Rebuttals -- Epilogue: a eulogy, of sorts.
Subjects:
Tyson, Neil deGrasse -- Correspondence.
Astrophysicists -- United States -- Correspondence.
Astrophysics.
Cosmology.
Tyson, Neil deGrasse -- Correspondence.
Astrophysicists -- United States -- Correspondence.
Astrophysics.
Cosmology.
ISBN:
9781324003311
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Includes index.