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by: Philip C. Plait See Larger Image List Price: $15.95 Our Price: $10.85 You Save: $5.10 (32%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $3.53 Third Party New Price: $8.61 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 520 EAN: 9780471409762 ISBN: 0471409766 Label: Wiley Manufacturer: Wiley Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: March 01, 2002 Publisher: Wiley Sales Rank: 18328 Studio: Wiley Related Items: Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . . Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O (Wiley bad science series) The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Advance praise for Philip Plaits Bad Astronomy 'Bad Astronomy is just plain good! Philip Plait clears up every misconception on astronomy and space you never knew you suffered from.' —Stephen Maran, Author of Astronomy for Dummies and editor of The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia 'Thank the cosmos for the bundle of star stuff named Philip Plait, who is the worlds leading consumer advocate for quality science in space and on Earth. This important contribution to science will rest firmly on my reference library shelf, ready for easy access the next time an astrologer calls.' —Dr. Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, and author of The Borderlands of Science 'Philip Plait has given us a readable, erudite, informative, useful, and entertaining book. Bad Astronomy is Good Science. Very good science...' —James 'The Amazing' Randi, President, James Randi Educational Foundation, and author of An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural 'Bad Astronomy is a fun read. Plait is wonderfully witty and educational as he debunks the myths, legends, and 'conspiracies that abound in our society. 'The Truth Is Out There'–and it's in this book. I loved it!' —Mike Mullane, Space Shuttle astronaut and author of Do Your Ears Pop in Space? Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Maybe I read a different book I am amazed by all these five star reviews. I admit the subject matter is very interesting and so I picked up the book. I was,however, astounded by the verboseness of the exaplanations. Maybe the book is meant for readers with little or no background in science, I do not know. Take for example, the chapter on tides. A simple explanation would be that the centrifugal force acting on the far side of the earth causes tides on that side, whereas moon's gravity tugging at earth ... Read More Rating: - Bad Astronomy and Good Insights PERSPECTIVE: physician with an interest in astronomy It's interesting to look at the American educational system to see exactly how much basic astronomy and space science is not taught, or at least, not taught well. Asking the average person to explain why we have tides or why the sky is blue is bound to elicit answers that vary from the slightly off to the ridiculous. One could argue that having a grasp on these most basic of "why's" isn't needed for our daily lives to proceed - the truth ... Read More Rating: - Some Bad language in Bad Astronomy I bought this book for my 14 year-old nephew. I wanted to preview it for my 9 year-old daughter. In flipping through I did find one expletive on page 103 (opening sentence to chapter 11), but the story is funny, so I will just black it out. I think some of the chapters would lose my daughter in comprehension. I'll wait a couple of years for her copy. Here is an except from the final paragraph of chapter 8: "Finally, in this section we'll travel back in time and space to where it all began, the ... Read More Rating: - put up or shut up Oh my!land sakes the flag moves! What does it all mean? Maybe the moon really does have an atmosphere, but we didnt find out for sure until we actually landed got out put up the flag and low and behold, a breeze made the flag flap! Does this mean that we didnt go to the moon? No what it means is that sometimes just because we have a theory about something regardless of what it is, does not mean that our theory was right to begin with. Sometimes our professionals leading the charge dont want to admit that ... Read More Rating: - Great book for us non-astronomy experts I bought this book expecting to read the usual stuff about why some people think that the moon landing was a hoax and how astrology doesnt really work (as explained on the cover). But i was suprised to learn about so many things that I actually thought really did exist in the world of astronomy. I really did think that the water spun in a different direction in australia, and that the sky was blue because thats what a lot of oxygen looks like and many other things that turned out not to be true. Many times ... 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