Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Tyson, Neil deGrasse. frey50

Death by black hole : and other cosmic quandaries / Neil deGrasse Tyson. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2007. - 384 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-368) and indexes.

The nature of knowledge: the challenges of knowing what is knowable in the universe -- The knowledge of nature: the challenges of discovering the contents of the cosmos -- Ways and means of nature: how nature presents herself to the inquiring mind -- The meaning of life: the challenges and triumphs of knowing how we got here -- When the universe turns bad: all the ways the cosmos wants to kill us -- Science and culture: the ruffled interface between cosmic discovery and the public's reaction to it -- Science and God: when ways of knowing collide.

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Black holes (Astronomy)
Cosmology.
Exobiology.
SOLAR SYSTEM.
Religion and science.

QB843.B55 / T97 2007

523.8/875