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To be honest, I got Burnham's Celestial Handbook (in three volumes by Robert Burnham, Jr.) mostly because it's a classic and thought it had a place on my bookshelf, even if it rarely left it.... The work also has an interesting backstory, but a printed (in typewriter style print, no less) compendium of astronomical objects circa late 60's, early 70's, illustrated with grainy, blurry, blown-out, black & white images, didn't seem likely to be of much relevance..... But after thumbing through it a bit, I then read it cover to three volumes later cover! The mix of unadulterated data (a lot of which I glossed over, admittedly), historical background, and cultural impact of the celestial skies on civilizations ancient to modern, is truly engaging--and unique. You learn (or at least, I did) that the accepted time of an ancient Egyptian dynasty, and in turn the whole dynastic timeline, is called into question by a temple oriented to a previous pole star. Very cool! I also really enjoyed the images. Despite their crudeness, there's something tangibly real about them that the amazing, but un-seeable, images here sort of lack. Got The Astrophotography Manual by Chris Woodhouse for xmas which at a first look through, seems like it'll be a great resource. On the fiction front, also got Brandon Sanderson's Cytonic which is really more young adult sci fi, but takes me back to my Tom Swift childhood! : ) Very disappointed with Andy Weir's Hail Mary. Maybe time for him to go back to writing software.... Cheers, Scott |
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| I can recommend you K. Thorne "The Science of Interstellar". He explains all the science in film, every part of it. Worth reading |
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| Just finished Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts. Excellent writing based in part on the 30,000 (!) letters Napoleon wrote during his life, recently available to scholars. Best book I've read in a long time. |
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| "Romeo and Juliet" is still read today because it portrays the problems and triumphs of the human conditions like few other stories ever have. The play demonstrates the social poisons caused by meaningless-hearted. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare teaches that families can divide a relationship. https://phdessay.com/free-essays-on/romeo-and-juliet/ can explain and give you good reasons to read and consider, namely, my advice. The author wrote this masterpiece because he wanted couples to appreciate their love together. People complain about how they face problems that ruin their relationships that force them to separate themself. Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet to explain the worst possible lovers can find themselves in. I am in love with his creation still even today. |
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Mary Shakespeare was a true genius! He was one of the greatest masters of the English language. Space is not sufficient to list all the lines from his plays that are now lexicons of our modern speech. Every time I watch one of his plays or see a line of his quoted, I am once again reminded of his genius! Stargazer66207 |
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Thomas Pynchon isn't for everyone, but I really enjoyed Mason & Dixon. Along with the surveying of the Mason-Dixon line, and everything that line comes to mean, the book also covers the 18th century transit of Venus whereby measuring the parallax between different view points gave us the distance from the earth to the sun for the first time. Though their names will forever be associated with the line dividing the south and north, slavery and freedom, surveying that line was actually intended as 'filler' work between the much more important Venus transits, 8 years apart. Anyhow, lot's of astronomy history woven through the book. Cheers, Scott |
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| I also like Agatha Christie and I am glad I have found your post while searching for the business development strategies online. Thanks a lot for sharing this information with us. |
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Guillermo Gonzalez: Hola Guillermo! Lastimosamente no puedo encontrar este libro, tienes otra recomendacion para una principiante? Gracias, amix. |
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A tale of two infinities by Gianfranco Bertoni This tells you everything you need to know about the universe, dark energy, neutron stars, black holes and quantum mechanics. Its told in a simple way and its not more than 200 pages. cs Bram |
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| The Deepsky Imaging Primer by Charles Bracken is a must. |
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The last I bought in spanish: https://galadi.net/dltau/ I don't know if there'll be english translation in a future. |
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| For me, my pick would be To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a classic. It was published in 1960 and the story takes place during the great depression. I have recently found essay about it (https://assignbuster.com/to-kill-a-mockingbird-essay-essay-samples-2/) the conclusion was "through an entertaining tone, literature is able to educate the society in various indulgencies, which by scaly scrutiny may seem right. ‘To kill a mockingbird’ also serves to solve even the modern world’s prevailing challenges such social inequalities and inhumane acts toward innocent citizens for instance corruption which can be compared to an act of killing a mockingbird". Now, 62 years later since its publication, the story is still prevalent. |
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The Maltese Falcon (novel) is the one I'm reading now, and it's very interesting If you like it, I think Raymond Chandler is even better at the 'patter'..... : ) James Cain is also a master. Some great movies made from these books too. The Humphrey Bogart movie versions of Chandler's The Big Sleep and Hammett's Maltese Falcon are classic, but Dick Powell's Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet is the best. And Cain's Double Indemnity, starring, uncharacteristically, Fred MacMurray, is considered by some as a top ten of all movies. Cheers, Scott |
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Jérémie: To add to this excellent list: - Photographying the night sky by Alyn Wallace, on techniques for landscape astrophotography - Il était une fois la nuit by Carol Reboul, a portfolio of beautiful pictures and a case against light pollution - Fundamentals of astrophysics by Stan Owocki, to better understand what you're looking at |
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| Oner of the better books I've read recently is titled "The Witch of Lime St.". It details the Scientific American challange to find a true psychic medium in the 1920s. Most were discovered to be frauds rather quickly. One Mina Crandon A.K.A Margery the Medium was the closest to claim the $2500.00 prize until Magician/Escpae Artist Harry Houdini got involved in the judging. |
