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“Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History…We felt this book was just really nicely written. In the first sentence he writes, ‘in the beginning, nearly 14 billion years ago, the entire universe was smaller than the period that ends this sentence.’ He really has a good way of capturing the enormity of what you’re looking at. The book has nice little digressions too, where he talks about the physics. So there’s a little bit about Newton and the impact that had and then there’s things about the oblateness of the Earth—in other words, it isn’t exactly spherical—and that you’re a little bit lighter at the equator than you are at the poles.” Read more...
The Best Science Books for Kids: the 2020 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
Mike Kendall, Scientist
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The Elegant Universe
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The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation
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Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
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Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist
by Adrian Desmond & James Moore
