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.

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.

Eleven poems of George Herbert selected by arbara Murray, and twenty-two poems by Barbara Murray. With drawings by Guy Ottewell of Bemerton near Salisbury in England, where George Herbert was parish priest from 1630 to 1633. "Most of Barbara Murray's] poems are, as true poetry is, driven by real feeling and crafted out of surprisingly found words. The first few . . . seem the most necessitated, meant, in any language; beside them, many other poems seem to be acts of play that could have been left undone."

This book focuses (in its 5th edition) on the eclipses of 2017, especially the solar eclipse that will cross America from Oregon to South Carolina on August 21; but it is about all eclipses. It 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." Rich illustrations, including the 12-page "bead...