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Chad Orzel is a professor of physics and science author, noted for his books How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, which has been translated into 9 languages, and How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog. [1]
About.com gave the book 3 1 ⁄ 2 out of 5, stating "Recommended for kids, but not for adults. The story in this book is a bit contrived, but as a book intended to teach children the basics of astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, and other principles that govern our universe, it does a fair job."
Teach Yourself About the Greeks by J. C. Stobart, was abridged from his full length work The Glory that was Greece (1911). Teach Yourself Amateur Acting by John Bourne, said to have been read by Michael Caine at the start of his career. [8] Teach Yourself Arabic, first published in 1943, was written by Arthur Stanley Tritton.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is a 2017 popular science book by Neil deGrasse Tyson, centering around a number of basic questions about the universe. Published on May 2, 2017, by W. W. Norton & Company , the book is a collection of Tyson's essays that appeared in Natural History magazine at various times from 1997 to 2007.
John R. Gribbin (born 19 March 1946) [1] is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. [2] His writings include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change, global warming, the origins of the universe, and biographies of famous scientists.
Filippenko is the author of and teacher in an eight-volume teaching series on DVD called Understanding the Universe. [7] Organized into three major sections in ten smaller units, this series of 96 half-hour lectures covers the material of an undergraduate survey course for An Introduction to Astronomy (the series' subtitle).
His second book, Death from the Skies, describes ways astronomical events could wipe out life on Earth and was released in October 2008. [ 17 ] Plait's work has also appeared in the Encyclopædia Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future and Astronomy magazine.
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Italian: Sette brevi lezioni di fisica) is a short book by the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. Originally published in Italian in 2014, by 2021 the book has been translated into 52 languages. [1] More than a million copies have been sold, of which more than 400,000 in Italy. [2]