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Space
Combining solid, user-friendly text with visually exciting illustrations and photography, this science-oriented book offers a real hands-on approach to learning about space. Full color.
64 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 1999
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Alan Dyer
49 books6 followersAlan Dyer is one of Canada’s best-known astronomy authors and astrophotographers. He has been shooting the sky since the 1980s with film, and since the early 2000s with digital cameras, primarily Canon and Nikon DSLRs. He takes most of his images at locations in the mountains, prairies, and badlands of his home province of Alberta, which include several UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
His photographs have appeared in many print publications, including Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, National Geographic, Air & Space, Sky At Night, Interstellarum, and on various major news websites.
His photographs have appeared in many print publications, including Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, National Geographic, Air & Space, Sky At Night, Interstellarum, and on various major news websites.
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December 5, 2011Ages: 10 +
This book covers every aspect of space in general. It is very current and up to date, the information is conveyed in a scientific tone, very little narrative. The book is extremely comprehensive so it includes each planet and meteor and the history of space exploration, the International Space Station, future space programs, and even information on other universes. Most of the art work is photographs from the Hubble Telescope with a lot of computer made charts, timelines, graphs, and diagrams. Each snippet of illustration is provided with a sentence or two description. This book is so jam packed it’s a bit overwhelming. In one page you will see our solar system presented in multiple ways over a two page spread that includes, size comparison, distance, amount of moons, weight comparison, and temperature gages. The artwork is beautiful, especially hubble photographs but information is so spread out on each page with photographs, captions, charts, and actual paragraphs of scientific narrative that its hard to follow along.
This book covers every aspect of space in general. It is very current and up to date, the information is conveyed in a scientific tone, very little narrative. The book is extremely comprehensive so it includes each planet and meteor and the history of space exploration, the International Space Station, future space programs, and even information on other universes. Most of the art work is photographs from the Hubble Telescope with a lot of computer made charts, timelines, graphs, and diagrams. Each snippet of illustration is provided with a sentence or two description. This book is so jam packed it’s a bit overwhelming. In one page you will see our solar system presented in multiple ways over a two page spread that includes, size comparison, distance, amount of moons, weight comparison, and temperature gages. The artwork is beautiful, especially hubble photographs but information is so spread out on each page with photographs, captions, charts, and actual paragraphs of scientific narrative that its hard to follow along.
October 2, 2012
The next four titles are just a sampling of books that will help fill your nonfiction science request. There are so many books in the weather, space, and nature catagory. When you come to the library, you will find more space books in the Children's nonfiction area under Dewey Decimal number of 520. For weather and nature themed nonfiction books, start around the 550's and look through the numbers up to 600. I'm sure you'll find lots of great reading.
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