David Levy, Author Touchstone Books $17.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-684-85255-3
The recent discovery of an asteroid seemingly on a near-collision course with Earth has heightened awareness of the real risk to our species and civilization posed by asteroids and their spectacular cousins, the comets. Levy, who was a discoverer of
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Astronomer Levy (author of last year's Shoemaker by Levy) is best known as the co-discoverer of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which slammed into Jupiter in 1994. This diminutive book brings together poems that mention the night sky, photographs...
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David Levy, Author University of Arizona Press $38 (246p) ISBN 978-0-8165-1149-5
The career of Dutch-born astronomer Bart J. Bok (1906-1983) spanned the mature era of international astronomy. Bok, who became a U.S. citizen in 1938, was the driving force in creating observational definitions of the Milky Way and other phenomena...
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David Levy, Author Basic Books $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-306-45088-4
The encounter of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (S-L9) with Jupiter in July 1994 furnished the first modern scientific observations of a spectacular planetary collision. Astronomer Levy (The Quest for Comets), codiscoverer of S-L9, gives a blow-by-blow...
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David Levy, Author Princeton University Press $42.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-691-00225-5
Eugene Shoemaker (1928-1997) is best known to the general public for his discovery, along with his wife, Carolyn, and author Levy, of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which slammed into the planet Jupiter in 1994. Shoemaker had played an important role in...
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David Levy, Author, D. H. Levy, Author Plenum Publishing Corporation $23.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-306-44651-1
Levy is a young astronomer's Michael Jordan: he discovers comets where professional astronomers have looked before and found nothing. His 20-odd discoveries are sufficient authority to support this general survey of current theory and comet history.
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David Levy, Author, Wendee Wallach-Levy, Joint Author with Wendee Wallach-Levy. Prometheus $28 (275p) ISBN 978-1-57392-931-8
Astronomer Levy has had a busy year, publishing a biography of Eugene Shoemaker, who pioneered the study of impact craters (Shoemaker by Levy), as well as a little book of reflections on famous writers' fascination with the night sky (Starry...
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Larry Rivers, Author, David Levy, Author, Barbara Rose, Author Bulfinch Press $60 (184p) ISBN 978-0-8212-2798-5
Although the work of Rivers, ne Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg, inhabits a second-tier status among Pop artists of his generation, his reputation as a good-natured bon vivant of bohemian living is second to almost no one's. With his high cheekbones and...
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David Levy, Author Harper $24.95 (334p) ISBN 978-0-06-135975-0
In this wide-ranging examination of the emotional and physical relations between humans and the inanimate objects of their desire, AI guru Levy (Robots Unlimited) first addresses the question of love with robots, and moves on to consider the...
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David Levy, Author, Stephen James O'Meara, Foreword by Prometheus Books $21.98 (362p) ISBN 978-1-59102-361-6
Levy, of the famous comet-hunting team Shoemaker-Levy, compiles a comprehensive catalog of objects which can be observed in all light conditions and usually with low-power equipment. Targeting novice astronomers, Levy provides a brief astronomy...
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David Levy, Author Knightsbridge Pub. Co. $19.95 (397p) ISBN 978-1-877961-34-2
An ailing U.S. president fights to keep his job in this tedious and implausible potboiler. Suffering from a bad heart and a faltering memory, President H. Stephen Thompson worries his top people, including v-p Clifford Hawley, in line to take over...
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