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Serious semi-popular book on Milky Way - a long awaited event
Many of you will know that there has been little written in the way of detailed (not oversimplified) but accessible overviews of the Milky Way Galaxy suitable for mid-level amateur astronomers and for science-oriented members of the public, since Bok and Bok wrote "The Milky Way"(5th edition) some decades ago.
William H. Waller, a respected researcher in the fields of Milky Way Structure and Stellar Evolution and the Interstellar Medium, who (unusually!) also has another simultaneous career as a science educator, has finally taken the bull by the horns and attempted a sober and detailed, but accessible and reasonably easy-to-read, book about our own Galaxy.
The book is:
"The Milky Way : An Insider's Guide"
published this year by Princeton University Press
The ISBN is: 0691122245
Dr Waller has an unusual Curriculum Vitae, which proves that the old dictum "He who can does, and he who cannot..... teaches" is a lie, because Waller does research and teaches at high school!
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