Don't Know Much About Space by Kenneth C. Davis

Don't Know Much About

by Kenneth C. Davis, Unknown Author

Desde la más remota antigüedad, el hombre ha contemplado el firmamento, y se ha interrogado acerca de él, con una mezcla de fascinación y temor reverencial. Desde que los babilonios, hace más de tres mil años, trazaron los primeros mapas celestes, no hemos dejado de ampliar nuestros conocimientos con la ayuda de instrumentos cada vez más avanzados y de explorar el espacio exterior con asombrosos proyectos, como la Estación Espacial Internacional. Todo lo que hay que saber sobre el espacio pretende ser una forma fácil, interesante y divertida de ayudarte a navegar por el cosmos, y en él encontrarás respuestas precisas y amenas a las preguntas que el hombre nunca ha dejado de hacerse en relación con el universo, respuestas que suponen un complemento indispensable a Todo lo que hay que saber sobre el planeta Tierra, publicado en esta misma colección.

Genres: Science, Space, Astronomy, Nonfiction, Science Nature

Audio Cassette

First published July 24, 2001

About the author

Kenneth C. Davis is the New York Times bestselling author of the Don't Know Much About® series of books and audios for adults and children. Don't Know Much About® History, the first title in the series, became a New York Times bestseller in 1991 and remained on the paperback list for 35 consecutive weeks. It has since been revised several times and now has more than 1.6 million copies in print. The 30th anniversary edition of the book was published with a new preface, "From an Era of Broken Trust to an Era of Broken Democracy."

Davis is, according to Publishers Weekly, "a go-to guy for historical insight and analysis."

AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY also became a New York Times bestseller. A NATION RISING also uses dramatic narratives to tell the "stories your textbooks left out." His book, THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AMERICA AT WAR (May 5, 2015) was called "searing" analysis by Publishers Weekly.

Kenneth C. Davis’s success aptly makes the case that Americans don’t hate history, just the dull version they slept through in class. Davis’s approach is to refresh us on the subjects we should have learned in school. He does it by busting myths, setting the record straight, and always remembering that fun is not a four-word letter word.

His IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF SLAVERY, FOUR PRESIDENTS, AND FIVE BLACK LIVES looks at the lives of five people enslaved by four of America's most famous Presidents and the role of slavery in American history and the presidency. In May 2018, MORE DEADLY THAN WAR: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War was published.

STRONGMAN: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy was published by Holt. It was named among the best books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews and the Washington Post.

In November 2022 GREAT SHORT BOOKS: A Year of Reading--Briefly was published by SCribner. A compendium of 58 great short works Davis read during the pandemic lock down, it is a joyous celebration of reading.

Coming in October 2024 is THE WORLD IN BOOKS: 52 WORKS OF GREAT SHORT NONFICTION. It is an accessible and comprehensive guide to some of the most influential and important works of nonfiction, from the earliest days of writing to contemporary times. Each entry includes information about the writers behind these consequential books and the time in which they lived.

Reviews

[Mao Mao · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like the don't know much about series. It has questions and answers. The questions are simple, but the answers are complicated. This book reveals a lot of info that I had never known. Some stars look like they are twins, but they are not binary stars! It's just like three dots almost on the same line, but the dots are very far apart. After the Hubble telescope was sent out, some scientists discovered that the main mirror had a tiny but serious error. A fraction of the width of a hair! It caused blurry vision. So in 1993, some astronauts flew to the ISS and repaired the telescope. But why do the scientists want two extra pieces of space trash after 2020------Voyager 1 and 2? Even though the spacecrafts are useful for finding aliens, after 2020, there will be two pieces of trash in space if the spacecrafts don't return.

[Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

fine primer.

[Budd Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good for learning/teaching space science and having not taken any astronomy courses in college.