This is an auction for BRIGHT STAR - BEATRICE HILL TINSLEY: ASTRONOMER by Christine Cole Catley.

Amazon.com review:

“Beatrice Hill Tinsley is a New Zealander honoured in the United States and United Kingdom for her pioneering work in the origins of galaxies, the origins of the universe. She built on the work of Einstein and was chosen by Fred Hoyle to keynote the celebrations of his life. She showed astronomers new ways of looking, and taught teachers new ways of teaching. Her life and loves are captured in this biography, a roller-coaster story of triumph over frustration, and an enduring legacy. Beatrice Hill Tinsley was a professor of astronomy at Yale University and only 40 when she died of cancer in 1981. A lover of nature and a conservationist, she idealised New Zealand. She was also a musician, a feminist, a battler for zero population growth and a champion of the oppressed. As this biography shows, her life is a fascinating study in the interaction of nature and nurture, genetics and environment. It is also an inspiring and unforgettable picture of a girl determined to be a scientist who grows up in provincial New Zealand and wins through to world renown.”

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Large format (trade) paperback 2006.

445 pages + 16 pages of photographs.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $5.95 (tracked mail). If you are on rural delivery, the shipping cost will be $8.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston ?North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.