Re: OT: Summer Reading List (contribute)


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The Show: The Inside Story of the Spectacular Los Angeles Lakers In The
Words of Those Who Lived It
by Roland Lazenby
I'll get it for my bday in a couple of weeks...

in the mean time I'm 'getting away from it all'...rereading(3rd time)...

THE ALCHEMY OF THE HEAVENS
http://www.kencroswell.com/alchemy.html

The Milky Way Galaxy--home of the Earth, Sun, and countless other stars--
has long been an object of human fascination. To Australia's aborigines
the
Milky Way was the smoke from a heavenly campfire, while the Chinese
considered it to be a river separating two young lovers. More recently, in
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, astronomers brought their
telescopes to bear on the Milky Way, hoping to discern its shape and map
the stars that fill its boundaries.
Yet as astronomer Ken Croswell points out in The Alchemy of the Heavens,
it's been within the last fifty years that scientists have made the most
stunning discoveries about the Galaxy we call home. With a remarkable
ability to make difficult concepts clear, Dr. Croswell skillfully leads
the
reader through a detailed survey of current thinking on the Milky Way. He
reveals, for example, that the Milky Way probably formed as many earlier
galaxies smashed together; that many of the elements on the Earth,
including the iron and oxygen that course through our bodies, were cast
into space by exploding supernovae; that in all likelihood there is a
massive black hole at the center of the Galaxy, with nearly 3 million
times
more mass than the Sun; and that the Milky Way's oldest stars preserve the
elements created in the big bang, thereby serving as fossils of the
universe's earliest days.

Along the way, Dr. Croswell also introduces us to the brilliant
astronomers
who made some of these discoveries, and recounts the fierce debates that
have driven forward our understanding of the Galaxy. Finally, and perhaps
most important, we see how knowledge about the Galaxy in particular can
give us tremendous insight into the origins of the universe as a whole.

http://www.kencroswell.com/

Good one. I'm going to check it out.


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