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Death by black hole : and other cosmic quandaries
- Title
- Death by black hole : and other cosmic quandaries / Neil deGrasse Tyson.
- Author
- Tyson, Neil deGrasse.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- 384 p.; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-368) and indexes.
- Contents
- The nature of knowledge: the challenges of knowing what is knowable in the universe -- The knowledge of nature: the challenges of discovering the contents of the cosmos -- Ways and means of nature: how nature presents herself to the inquiring mind -- The meaning of life: the challenges and triumphs of knowing how we got here -- When the universe turns bad: all the ways the cosmos wants to kill us -- Science and culture: the ruffled interface between cosmic discovery and the public's reaction to it -- Science and God: when ways of knowing collide.
- Call Number
- Sc D 07-640
- ISBN
- 0393062244
- 9780393062243
- LCCN
- 2006022058
- OCLC
- 70265574
- Author
- Tyson, Neil deGrasse.
- Title
- Death by black hole : and other cosmic quandaries / Neil deGrasse Tyson.
- Imprint
- New York : W.W. Norton, c2007.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-368) and indexes.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 07-640