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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed. ; 1st printing ; 143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm ; ISBN 9780394538907, 0394538900 ; OCLC 10779098 ; LCCN 84042705 ; LOC No TR713 .F47 1984 ; Dewey 778.3/5 ; 80 photographs on a variety of extraterrestrial subjects give access to the world of space exploration and adventure ; grey cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Timothy Ferris was born on August 29, 1944, in Miami, Florida. He graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in 1966 and did graduate work from 1966-1967. Ferris is the author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way, for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; The Red Limit; The Whole Shebang: A State of the Universe(s) Report; Galaxies; The Mind's Sky; The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature, and other popular books on astronomy and physics. He has received the American Institute of Physics Prize, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize, the Klumpke-Roberts Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Books by Ferris have been nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His PBS special, The Creation of the Universe, won an Emmy nomination in 1986. In addition to his books, Ferris is a former editor of Rolling Stone magazine and has authored more than 100 articles, essays, and reviews in such publications as Esquire, Nature, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, and Reader's Digest. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, writes a column for Scientific American, has served as an essayist for The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and is a commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Ferris produced the Voyager phonograph record, an artifact of human civilization containing music, the sounds of Earth, and encoded photographs, that was launched aboard the Voyager spacecraft. He serves as a consultant to NASA on long-term space exploration policy. ; Contents: Quick focus -- For want of a thesis -- Good shots -- The weather birds -- The whole Earth satellite -- Mars illustrated -- UFOs and allegedly suppressed photographs -- How to obtain your own space photographs. ; FINE/FINE. Book.…