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"A biography of Carl Sagan focusing on his childhood and culminating in the Voyager mission and the Golden Record"--Provided by publisher.

11-year-old Mary Andromeda has been held captive in her cruel uncle's mansion since her mother left her, six years ago. But when a sudden turn of events brings her to Evergreen Isle, a wild and mysteriously abandoned island-of-science, Mary begins to uncover the truth: about her mother's disappearance, the plans of a secret society, and her own place in an ancient family of women astronomers.

In the London of 1795, intrigue and death walk the dark streets. England is at war with its neighbor and nemesis, France, and espionage is rampant. It is the job of Jonathan Absey at the Home Office to catch these spies, but his mind is elsewhere, his dreams haunted by the still unsolved murder of his fifteen-year-old daughter on these same streets. Desperately pursuing both investigations, he stumbles across a strange society of astronomers called...

This is the story of Mike Brown, the astronomer, whose childhood interest in space led to his discoveries that reclassified Pluto.

Shares the achievements and accomplishments of women in astronomy, including Wang Zhenyi, Maria Mitchell, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

"He was the best-known scientist of his generation--perhaps of any generation. His face was projected into millions of homes each week, his name dwelled on bestseller lists, his word was, to most of the general public, the word of scientific authority. But in no other era could Carl Sagan have become what he became. In the age of mass communication, he was the consummate communicator."--Jacket.

A biography of astronomer Edwin Hubble, who proved that the universe contains many separate galaxies.

This memoir charts the life of Dr. Aomawa Shields as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM as she searches for life in the universe while building a meaningful life here on Earth.

The author and biogrpaher shows us that Galileo was far more than a mathematician: he was deeply knowledgeable in the arts, an expert on the epic poet Ariosto, a fine lutenist. The author notes that years of reading the poets and experimenting with literary forms were not mere sidebars - they enabled Galileo to write clearly and plausibly about the most implausible things. The author argues that Galileo changed the world not simply because he revolutionized...