Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

eBook, 144 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 2017 by W.W. Norton & Company.

ISBN:
9780393609400

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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is a 2017 popular science book by Neil deGrasse Tyson, centering around a number of basic questions about the universe. Published on May 2, 2017, by W. W. Norton & Company, the book is a collection of Tyson's essays that appeared in Natural History magazine at various times from 1997 to 2007.The book debuted at #1 on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list when it first appeared in May, 2017. It sold 48,416 copies in its first week, making it the second-most-purchased overall in the U.S. for that week (behind the children's fiction novel The Dark Prophecy). A year later, it remained in the top five and had sold in excess of one million copies.

6 editions

Subjects

  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Space and time