Letters from an astrophysicist
(2019)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
523.01/TYSON,N

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 523.01/TYSON,N Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

xv, 247 pages : color illustration ; 20 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781324003311, 1324003316 :, 1324003316, 9781324003311
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Includes index

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

Tyson shares 101 letters from people across the globe who have sought him out in search of scientific answers