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- ISBN
- 159376121X
- EAN
- 9781593761219
- Date of Publication
- 20061101
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- Year of the Comets: A Journey from Sadness to the Stars
- Artist
- DeBlieu, Jan
- Brand
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- Colour
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- Book Title
- Year of the Comets : a Journey from Sadness to the Stars
- Publisher
- Counterpoint Press
- Item Length
- 8.7 in
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Nature, Science, Self-Help
- Topic
- Sky Observation, Mood Disorders / Depression, Astronomy
- Item Weight
- 8.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 4.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
ISBN-10
159376121X
ISBN-13
9781593761219
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038808069
Product Key Features
Book Title
Year of the Comets : a Journey from Sadness to the Stars
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Sky Observation, Mood Disorders / Depression, Astronomy
Genre
Nature, Science, Self-Help
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
8.9 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
4.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
DeBlieu, an award-winning natural-history writer, skillfully folds the scientific information she has had to master--neurological as well as astronomical--into a memoir of toughing out hard times with help from the heavens., Books about black holes and galaxies abound. Much rarer are books that show how the cosmos touches our innermost lives. By interweaving her family's struggles with exceptionally lucid ruminations on stargazing and astrophysics, Jan DeBlieu makes plain what many stargazers no doubt feel but dare not say--that looking skyward at night satisfies a deep need to escape the trials of the day., A poetic compendium of wind phenomenon and a hymn of praise for these towering movements of the air., As in her previous book, Wind, DeBlieu uses forces of nature to illuminate the human condition. Here she brackets the harrowing story of her husband's severe depression with the appearances of the comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp; in between these astronomical events, she reflects on the chaos and order of the cosmos by weaving a well-paced history of stargazing., DeBlieu's... work brings [her] routinely to the edge of wonder--to space and infinity, in DeBlieu's central metaphor--and therefore to great depths of emotion.
Dewey Decimal
616.85/27/0092 B
Synopsis
On the clearest nights in the darkest places you can see as many as two thousand stars. On what scaffolding are they hung? Jan DeBlieu began to wonder. Her husband had become enveloped in a depression of his own, and both he and DeBlieu were struggling to find points of light out of that darkness. DeBlieu discovers it in the sky above, a firmament of order and beauty that prompts her to consider the worlds inside our minds, the delicate framework of neurons and synapses that support our fragile selves. Year of the Comets is her record of the journey she and her husband take from pain to healing., On the clearest nights, in the darkest rural areas, it's possible to see as many as 2,000 stars. On what kind of scaffolding are they hung? Every moment thousands of neurons fire in our brains, giving rise to our thoughts and emotions. Is it possible for us to map and understand the complex internal cosmos that makes us who we are? These two disparate questions became of immense importance to award-winning writer Jan DeBlieu in the spring of 1996, with the appearance of the Comet Hyakutake, the first of two great comets to visit Earth within a year. That spring, her husband, Jeff, began a long slide into a clinical depression. One night, unable to sleep, she stepped outside and found herself face-to-face with Hyakutake. Her encounter with Hyakutake sparked a desire to learn all she could about the stars, comets, and the makeup of the universe. Through her family's story, DeBlieu describes the pain of watching her husband suffer, as well as his healing-indeed, their healing as a couple. She brings the Year of the Comets full circle with the appearance of Hale-Bopp in 1997, which coincided with Jeff's recovery., On the clearest nights in the darkest places you can see as many as two thousand stars. On what scaffolding are they hung? Jan DeBlieu began to wonder. Her husband had become enveloped in a depression of his own, and both he and DeBlieu were struggling to find points of light out of that darkness. DeBlieu discovers it in the sky above, a firmament of order and beauty that prompts her to consider the worlds inside our minds, the delicate framework of neurons and synapses that support our fragile selves. "Year of the Comets" is her record of the journey she and her husband take from pain to healing.
LC Classification Number
RC537
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