| The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet |
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Release Date January 19, 2009
Gathered here in one place is a record of Pluto’s rise and fall from planethood, given by way of media accounts, public forums, cartoons, and letters I received from disgruntled school children, their teachers, strongly opinionated adults, and colleagues.
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| Death By Black Hole, And Other Cosmic Quandaries |
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Neil deGrasse Tyson 2007. Death By Black Hole, And Other Cosmic Quandaries In contract with W. W. Norton (New York). Anthology of the best essays that have appeared in Natural History magazine under the title "Universe."
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| Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution |
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Origins explores cosmic science's stunning new insights into the formation and evolution of our universe: of the cosmos, of galaxies and galaxy clusters, of stars within galaxies, of planets that orbit those stars, and of different forms of life that take us back to the first three seconds and forward through three billion years of life on Earth to today's search for life on other planets |
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| One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos |
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** Winner: American Institute of Physics, 2001 Science Writing Award **
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Charles Liu, & Robert Irion 2000, One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos, Joseph Henry Press of the National Academy of Sciences. The connections of astrophysics with everyday life. The companion book to the 2000 opening of the Hayden Planetarium and Rose Center for Earth and Space
(Online version): Charles Liu & Neil deGrasse Tyson 2002,One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos - On Line Version, Joseph Henry Press of the National Academy of Sciences. The One Universe book (see 5a below), enhanced with 1,000 hyperlinks, review questions and problems sets.
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| The Sky Is Not the Limit Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist |
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Neil deGrasse Tyson 2000, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist, Doubleday (New York). Autobiographical reflections. (Paperback [Updated and Revised]: 2004 - Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York) |
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| Just Visiting this Planet |
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Neil deGrasse Tyson 1998, Just Visiting this Planet, 334 pgs, Main Street Books, an imprint of Doubleday (New York),
A collection of six years from a Q & A column written monthly for Star Date magazine. Sequel to Merlin's Tour of the Universe (see below) that contains chapters of questions about astronomy and space asked by the general public and answered through the pen name "Merlin". (Italian Translation: 1998 - Piemme, Italy) |
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| Universe Down to Earth |
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Neil deGrasse Tyson 1994, Universe Down to Earth, 276 pgs. Columbia University Press (New York).
Essays on special topics in astronomy that evolved principally from invited talks and lectures delivered for introductory college astronomy classes at Columbia University, University of Maryland, and University of Texas. The book uses creative "household" analogies to help bring complex topics of the universe to the lay reader. |
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| Merlin's Tour of the Universe |
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Neil deGrasse Tyson 1989, Merlin's Tour of the Universe, 300 pgs. Columbia University Press (New York).
(Paperback: 1997 - Main Street Books, an imprint of Doubleday, New York)
(Portuguese Translation: 2001 - Editora Globo, Sao Paulo)
(Chinese Translation: 1999 - Beijing)
(Italian Translation: 1998 - Piemme, Italy)
(Polish Translation: 1998 - Proszynski Ska, Warsaw)
(German Translation: 1997 - Piper Verlag, Munich)
(Spanish Translation: 1993- Selector Press, Mexico City)
(Japanese Translation: 1991 - Tokyo Tojo Press, Tokyo)
Thirteen chapters of questions about astronomy and space asked by the general public and answered through the pen name "Merlin". |
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