Field Guide to Stars and Planets by Jay M Pasachoff

Field Guide to Stars and Planets by Jay M Pasachoff

No one begins life as a teenager. So why can't Pete Neper remember his childhood?
His family attended St. Anthony's church in Florida. So why is the Old German Baptist meeting house-in Ohio, where his high school friend attended-the only one he can remember?
Is he crazy like his father the man who killed his mother years ago and recently killed his best friend?
While Pete hunts for his elusive memories, Danni Wagoner, his best friend's widow still seeks for closure a year after she buried her husband.
Much as he wants to comfort this widow and her child-unless Pete can forgive his father, he will not be free to love or protect either of them properly.

Pasachoff, Jay M.: - Jay M. Pasachoff is Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College, where he teaches the astronomy survey course and works with undergraduate students. He is also Director of the Hopkins Observatory there. Pasachoff has observed 35 solar eclipses and is Chair of the Working Group on Solar Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union. He is part of a group of scientists observing the atmosphere of Pluto through stellar occultations. He also works in radio astronomy, concentrating on cosmic deuterium and its consequences for cosmology. Further, he collaborates with an art historian on images of comets, the Moon, and eclipses. Pasachoff is U.S. National Liaison to the Commission on Astronomical Education and Development of the International Astronomical Union and is also Vice-President of the Commission. He has twice been Chair of the Astronomy Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he has been on the astronomy education committees of the American Astronomical Society, the American Physical Society, and the American Association of Physics Teachers. He is on the Council of Advisors of the Astronomy Education Review, the on-line journal sponsored by the American Astronomical Society and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. In addition to his college astronomy texts, Pasachoff has written the PETERSON FIELD GUIDE TO THE STARS AND PLANETS, and is author or co-author of textbooks in calculus and in physics as well as several junior-high-school textbooks. Pasachoff received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard and was at Caltech before going to Williams College. His sabbaticals and other leaves have been taken at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy, the Institut d'Astrophysique in Paris, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Pasachoff has been awarded the 2003 Education Prize of the American Astronomical Society.

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ISBN 13	9780395348352
ISBN 10	0395348358
Title	Field Guide to Stars and Planets
Author	Jay M Pasachoff
Series	Peterson Field Guides
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	1983-12-01
Number of pages	448
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