Bøger af Guy Ottewell

An ingenious architectural solution for large libraries running out of space.

This classic book for young people takes you through the night skies of each month, telling the stories of the stars so as to make them familiar, and then gives you an elementary guide to astronomy, from the sun, moon, and planets out to the comets, stars, galaxies, and limits of the universe. The little book sold 15,000 copies even in its 40-page black-and-white form. The new (2014) edition has 90 pages, full color, masses of new information and illustrations, and the same light touch.

The original purpose of the "Longer View" books is to provide charts and descriptions of the planets' travels in the years ahead. But there is also the three-century human story (replete with controversies and ironies) of how the first "new" planets were discovered, each leading to the next. And there is much to point out about these bodies' characteristics and intricate motions.80 illustrations, and 73 short chapters, such as "Herschel's oboe and telescope", "Not the predicted planet", "The apple of discord", "Pioneers and Voyagers to the outer giants", "Neptune's circular yet wavy orbit", "Clusters of Uranus events", "Uranus by Moonlight", "Pluto's much-more-than-sidewise rotation", "Grim ferryman", "The Neptune-Pluto standoff", "The Pluto-Charon embrace", "Pluto's painted deserts", "Oligarchs and Plutocrats"...

This book (now in a 5th edition) methodically explains why eclipses of the sun and moon happen, their intricate patterns in time and space - and why they are so exciting.There are page-spreads, with dynamic globe diagrams, for examples of the main kinds of eclipse and several curious cases such as a "broken-ring eclipse", a "geometrically tight eclipse", a "globe-skimming eclipse". There is lingering many-page treatment of two great solar eclipses: the "ideal" one of July 1991 that went over Hawaii, Baja California, and Mexico; and that of August 2017 across the U.S.A. from Oregon to South Carolina.Rich illustrations, including the 12-page "bead curtain" chart of all eclipses from 1901 to 2116; "Eclipse stories" (with some cartoons); eclipses of the future; tables; index.

An essay on whether world human rights are getting better or worse; an essay on a round-the-circle way of conducting argumentative meetings; and an essay on direct democracy.

Berenice, a princess from Cyrene in Libya, became queen of Egypt and dedicated her famous hair in thanksgiving for her husband's return from a war. It vanished, and became the constellation Coma Berenices, which we can see any night in summer. That's the classical story! What really happened to her hair? This novel exploits the grittier facts known about the historical Berenice (for instance, she killed the first man sent to marry her, Demetrius "the Fair", because her mother seduced him). And it derives plot suggestions from the author's experiences in modern Libya and Egypt, such as swimming over a drowned city. Berenice was left to manage a huge intricate nation with its scheming politicians. The story takes her past three of the seven Wonders of the World - the Colossus of Rhodes, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Pyramids - but taller than them all is the natural phenomenon that saves her.