Customer Review: Good book for a beginner with a small telescope or binoculars. gives detailed explanations about celestial objects and how to easily find them. each section corresponds to a certain season and what can be found in that time of year. where to find the planets and what to look for on the planets.... more info
Customer Review: This book is a great addition to an increasingly number of books written by respected scientists/engineers about why and how belief in God makes sense. Francis Collins' "Language of God" falls into the "why" cathegory. If you wanna challenge your Dawkins-minded friends, that's probably your best... more info
Customer Review: I had the pleasure of meeting Brother Guy in the summer of 2001 during a visit to Castel Gandolfo where he was kind enough to take us on a guided tour of the observatories on the roof of the Papal residence. He is as entertaining and fascinating "in real life" as his books amply demonstrate to a... more info
Customer Review: Planetary sciences is an incredibly exciting field, all the more so because we are visiting these places. Most astronomy texts give an extensive tour of the solar system, but Worlds Apart does much more. It concisely explains fundamental concepts in geology, chemistry, physics and astronomy as they... more info
Customer Review: This is the most remarkable book I have read in a long time, and will be near the top of my reread list. Most enthusiastically recommended.
The author is an MIT graduate, a Jesuit brother, and an astronomer at the Vatican Observatory. Only such a polymath could have written this intriguing... more info
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