How the World Works: Astronomy: From plotting the stars to pulsars and black holes

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Accessible format with full-colour illustrations and panels featuring biographies of important figures, accounts of important texts, definitions of key concepts, quotations etc.

Anne Rooney gained a degree and then a PhD in medieval literature from Trinity College, Cambridge. After a period of teaching medieval English and French literature at the universities of Cambridge and York, she left to pursue a career as a freelance writer. She has written many books for adults and children on a variety of subjects, including literature and history. She lives in Cambridge. She has written many books on science and technology, and was long-listed for the prestigious Aventis Science Prize in 2004.