Dava Sobel, Author . Ecco $27.50 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-072640-9
In this collection of 22 essays and one poem (by John Updike), accomplished essayists writing on subjects across the spectrum of science inform readers without talking down to them or falling into scientific jargon. Sobel (Longitude
, Galileo's...
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Dava Sobel, Author . Viking $24.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-670-03446-8
Sobel's purpose in this lovely and personal volume is to show us the planets as she sees them. Writing in quite a different mode than in her best-selling Longitude
and Galileo's Daughter,
Sobel offers intimate essays inspired by the...
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Dava Sobel, Author Walker & Company $19 (184p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1312-4
While sailors can readily gauge latitude by the height of the sun or guiding stars above the horizon, the measurement of longitude bedeviled navigators for centuries, resulting in untold shipwrecks. Galileo, Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley entreated...
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Dava Sobel, Author Walker & Company $27 (420p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1343-8
Despite its title, this impressive book proves to be less the story of Galileo's elder daughter, the oldest of his three illegitimate children, and more the story of Galileo himself and his trial before the Inquisition for arguing that Earth moves...
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Dava Sobel, Author Penguin Books $13 (184p) ISBN 978-0-14-025879-0
This look at the scientific quest to find a way for ships at sea to determine their longitude was a PW bestseller for eight weeks. (Oct.)
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Dava Sobel. Walker, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1793-1
Sobel, author of the bestselling Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, brings something different to the bulging Copernicus canon. She wants to know why Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) waited till shortly before his death to publish the universe-expandin
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Dava Sobel. Viking, $30 (315p) ISBN 978-0-670-01695-2
Acclaimed science writer Sobel (A More Perfect Heaven) casts much-needed light on the brilliant and determined women behind two historic revolutions in astronomy: one scientific, one professional. In the mid-18th century, astronomers employed human “
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Dava Sobel, Author, Willibald Nagler, Foreword by, Arthur C. Klein, With St. Martin's Press $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-92719-6
In Reed's marvelous sequel to The Verdict , Boston attorney Frank Galvin's suit against an English pharmaceutical company leads to intrigue, moral quandaries and murder. (Sept.)
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Dava Sobel, Author, Willibald Nagler, Foreword by, Arthur C. Klein, With St. Martin's Press $21.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-312-10933-2
It is estimated that 80 million Americans endure periodic bouts with back pain. Sobel and Klein, coauthors of Backache Relief , based this book on results of a nationwide survey of back-pain sufferers that looked at relative effectiveness of...
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Dava Sobel. Atlantic Monthly, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6382-0
This disappointing history from science writer Sobel (The Glass Universe) comes up short in examining how Marie Curie (1867–1934) kick-started dozens of women scientists’ careers at her University of Paris laboratory. After her husband’s death in...
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