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Our Andromeda

Author : Brenda Shaughnessy
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320282
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Our Andromeda written by Brenda Shaughnessy and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A heady, infectious celebration."—The New Yorker "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."—Harvard Review Brenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection explores dark subjects—trauma, childbirth, loss of faith—and stark questions: What is the use of pain and grief? Is there another dimension in which our suffering might be transformed? Can we change ourselves? Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new rules, she imagines a parallel existence in the galaxy of Andromeda. From "Our Andromeda": Cal, faster than the lightest light, so much faster than love, and our Andromeda, that dream, I can feel it living in us like we are its home. Like it remembers us from its own childhood. Oh, maybe, Cal, we are home, if God will let us live here, with Andromeda inside us, doesn't it seem we belong? Now and then, will you help me belong here, in this place where you became my child, and I your mother out of some instant of mystery of crash and matter . . . Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Interior with Sudden Joy (FSG, 1999). Shaughnessy’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harper's, The Nation, The Rumpus, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son and daughter.

Human Dark with Sugar

Author : Brenda Shaughnessy
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320118
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Human Dark with Sugar written by Brenda Shaughnessy and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Brenda Shaughnessy’s poems bristle with imperatives: ‘confuse me, spoon-feed me, stop the madness, decide.’ There are more direct orders in her first few pages than in six weeks of boot camp...Only Shaughnessy’s kidding. Or she is and she isn’t. If you just want to boss people around, you’re a control freak, but if you can joke about it, then your bossiness is leavened by a yeast that’s all too infrequent in contemporary poetry, that of humor.”—New York Times “Shaughnessy’s voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy.”—Harvard Review “Brenda Shaughnessy . . . writes like the love-child of Mina Loy and Frank O’Hara.”—Exquisite Corpse "In its worried acceptance of contradiction, its absolute refusal of sentimentality and its acute awareness of time's 'scarce infinity,' this is a brilliant, beautiful and essential continuation of the metaphysical verse tradition." —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Human Dark with Sugar is both wonderfully inventive (studded with the strangenesses of ‘snownovas’ and ‘flukeprints’) and emotionally precise. Her ‘I’ is madly multidexterous—urgent, comic, mischievous—and the result is a new topography of the debates between heart and head.”—Matthea Harvey, a judge for the Laughlin Award "Seriously playful, sexy, sharp-edged, and absolutely commanding throughout....Here you'll meet an 'I' boldly ready to take on the world and just itching to give 'You' some smart directives. So listen up."—Library Journal In her second book, winner of the prestigious James Laughlin Award, Brenda Shaughnessy taps into themes that have inspired era after era of poets. Love. Sex. Pain. The heavens. The loss of time. The weird miracle of perception. Part confessional, part New York School, and part just plain lover of the English language, Shaughnessy distills the big questions into sharp rhythms and alluring lyrics. “You’re a tool, moon. / Now, noon. There’s a hero.” Master of diverse dictions, she dwells here on quirky words, mouthfuls of consonance and assonance—anodyne, astrolabe, alizarin—then catches her readers up short with a string of powerful monosyllables. “I’ll take / a year of that. Just give it back to me.” In addition to its verbal play, Human Dark With Sugar demonstrates the poet’s ease in a variety of genres, from “Three Sorries” (in which the speaker concludes, “I’m not sorry. Not sorry at all”), to a sequence of prose poems on a lover’s body, to the discussion of a disturbing dream. In this caffeine jolt of a book, Shaughnessy confirms her status as a poet of intoxicating lines, pointed, poignant comments on love, and compelling abstract images —not the least of which is human dark with sugar. Brenda Shaughnessy was raised in California and is an MFA graduate of Columbia University. She is the poetry editor for Tin House and has taught at several colleges, including Eugene Lang College and Princeton University. She lives in Brooklyn.

The River Child

Author : Jo Tuscano
Publisher : Odyssey Books
ISBN 13 : 1922311480
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The River Child written by Jo Tuscano and published by Odyssey Books. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing beside Elise’s grave, Siobhan Montrell remembers how her mother finally blew the perfect smoke ring on the day that Elise disappeared. Remembers the day that would change and define her life forever. The toddler's body was found in the river near Gables Guesthouse. Only eleven years old at the time, Siobhan has carried the guilt of Elise’s death with her since that day. Twenty-eight years later, Siobhan returns to Rachley Island, having inherited Gables -- guesthouse and family home -- from her aunt. Cleaning the property to prepare it for sale, she discovers an old book in which her aunt used to draw and write, revealing the truth about the tragic drowning. The River Child is a tale of grief and guilt, deceit and secrets, and ultimately forgiveness.

Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda: Destruction of Illusions

Author : Keith R. A. DeCandido
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765344076
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda: Destruction of Illusions written by Keith R. A. DeCandido and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda™ is the continuing story of Captain Dylan Hunt of the starship Andromeda Ascendant, in his quest to restore the Systems Commonwealth that fell three hundred years ago. When the series opens, Hunt and the Andromeda have been rescued by the independent cargo ship, Eureka Maru. How the Maru got there is a fast-paced, exciting space adventure that Andromeda™ fans and SF readers will love. The Eureka Maru has been impounded for non-payment of bills. Captain Beka Valentine and her crew daringly liberate the ship, and soon get a chance for a big score: pick up a Nietzschean princess, pregnant with a child that might be heir to the Nietzschean throne. Surviving betrayal and vicious attack ships, the Maru must bring the princess to safety before the child is delivered. Along the way, they gain a mysterious new crew member. Unknown to them, Nietzschean warrior Tyr Anasazi is on a mission to restore the glory of his people. To raise money for an army, he's accepted an offer to a High Guard ship that's been stuck in a black hole for 300 years. The money would be fabulous, but he needs a ship and crew. The Eureka Maru fits the bill.

Our Andromeda

Author : Brenda Shaughnessy
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556594100
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Our Andromeda written by Brenda Shaughnessy and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the author's poems about a parallel existence in the Andromeda galaxy in which people can relive their lives, correcting mistakes and avoiding pain.

The Octopus Museum

Author : Brenda Shaughnessy
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1524711497
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Octopus Museum written by Brenda Shaughnessy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, this collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics. Informed as much by Brenda Shaughnessy's worst fears as a mother as they are by her superb craft as a poet, the poems in The Octopus Museum blaze forth from her pen: in these pages, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children is now hyper-reasonable, specific, and multiple: school shootings, nuclear attack, loss of health care, a polluted planet. As Shaughnessy conjures our potential future, she movingly (and often with humor) envisions an age where cephalopods might rule over humankind, a fate she suggests we may just deserve after destroying their oceans. These heartbreaking, terrified poems are the battle cry of a woman who is fighting for the survival of the world she loves, and a stirring exhibition of who we are as a civilization.

Leo

Author : Stella Andromeda
Publisher : Hardie Grant
ISBN 13 : 9781784882624
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Leo written by Stella Andromeda and published by Hardie Grant. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROAR, FLAMING LEO, FULL HEART, STAR POWER, GLOSS SHINE. GO WILD, TAKE YOUR STAGE. Who are you going to fall in love with next? What job should you really be in? When are you finally going to come into that big money? Why does everyone freak out when Mercury is in retrograde? In our increasingly turbulent world, many of us are looking to the sky to find guidance in the ancient art of astrology. In Leo, Stella Andromeda will tell you all you need to know about your astrological life as the lion. Learn how to harness the ancient power of the zodiac and open your mind to what the universe can offer in ways you never would have imagined. With advice that covers everything from self-care to sex, this little book is your key to a very starry future. Contents include: Get to Know Leo: Lucky color; Leo careers; How Leo communicates / The Leo Deep Dive: Self-care; The Leo home; Food and cooking; How Leo wants to be loved / Give Me More: Your birth chart, The Moon effect; Saturn return

The Legend of Andromeda

Author : Gloria Denise Hopkins
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 168456526X
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Andromeda written by Gloria Denise Hopkins and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Andromeda is a young Ethiopian princess who is sent away from her parents and her palace home on a perilous journey. One day, an evil, selfish man decides to place a curse on her kingdom of Abyssinia, seeking to spread fear and superstition all throughout the land. In a desperate attempt to protect her from his dark, supernatural threat, her mother, Queen Cassiopeia, tells Andromeda to run away from home without giving her any explanation. Despite not understanding why she would do this, Andromeda obeys her mother’s command without question and finds herself in an exciting adventure exploring the mysterious jungles of her kingdom. There, she encounters many surprises, including a young prince named Perseus and his talking pet monkey, Solomon, who are traveling out of their home kingdom, Kenya, on a hunting trip. After she meets Perseus, Andromeda makes her very first friend outside of the palace, and they become very close as they try to solve the mystery about her magical star necklace. However, back at home, Andromeda’s parents and her kingdom’s people are in great danger, and King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia must make a huge decision to save their young daughter’s life before it’s too late. Feeling torn between her new friend and wanting to go home, Andromeda must also decide what’s truly important to her before time runs out. Can little Andromeda herself find a way to break the evil spell and save all the people she cares about while discovering why she’s special to her parents at the same time?

The Andromeda Evolution

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006247328X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Andromeda Evolution written by Michael Crichton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name—and spawned a new genre, the technothriller—the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant. The Evolution is Coming. In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle—designated The Andromeda Strain—killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a catastrophic nuclear detonation, they succeeded. In the ensuing decades, research on the microparticle continued. And the world thought it was safe… Deep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. On the verge of being shut down, the project has registered no activity—until now. A Brazilian terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of otherworldly matter in the middle of the jungle, and, worse yet, the tell-tale chemical signature of the deadly microparticle. With this shocking discovery, the next-generation Project Wildfire is activated, and a diverse team of experts hailing from all over the world is dispatched to investigate the potentially apocalyptic threat. But the microbe is growing—evolving. And if the Wildfire team can’t reach the quarantine zone, enter the anomaly, and figure out how to stop it, this new Andromeda Evolution will annihilate all life as we know it.

The Detour

Author : Andromeda Romano-Lax
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616950501
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book The Detour written by Andromeda Romano-Lax and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “compelling” novel of art, danger, and one man’s adventure in pre-World War II Italy, from the author of Plum Rains (Library Journal). Ernst Vogler is twenty-six years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer—the Third Reich’s Sonderprojekt, which is collecting the great art of Europe and bringing it to Germany for the Führer. Vogler is to collect a famous Classical Roman marble statue, The Discus Thrower, and get it to the German border, where it will be turned over to the Gestapo. It is a simple, three-day job. Things start to go wrong almost immediately. The Italian twin brothers who have been hired to escort Vogler to the border seem to have priorities besides the task at hand—wild romances, perhaps even criminal jobs on the side—and Vogler quickly loses control of the assignment. The twins set off on a dangerous detour and Vogler realizes he will be lucky to escape this venture with his life, let alone his job. With nothing left to lose, the young German gives himself up to the Italian adventure, to the surprising love and inevitable losses along the way. From the celebrated author of The Spanish Bow and Behave, The Detour is a bittersweet novel about artistic obsession, misplaced idealism, diversions, and second chances, set along the beautiful back-roads of northern Italy.

AstroBirthdays

Author : Stella Andromeda
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784884812
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book AstroBirthdays written by Stella Andromeda and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begin a journey to self-discovery through astrology, numerology and Tarot, guided by the bestselling Seeing Stars author, Stella Andromeda. Each of the 366 profiles incorporates astrological insights, numerology and a Tarot card reading specifically selected for that date. Learn to understand how you respond to life and its challenges, what predisposition you may already be aware of or what will be revealed as you mature and the way you approach your closest relationships. AstroBirthdays provides intriguing birthdate information not just about you, but also about partners, family, friends and work colleagues.

The Andromeda Strain

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307816419
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Andromeda Strain written by Michael Crichton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a captivating thriller about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism, which threatens to annihilate human life. Five prominent biophysicists have warned the United States government that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, a probe satellite falls to the earth and lands in a desolate region of northeastern Arizona. Nearby, in the town of Piedmont, bodies lie heaped and flung across the ground, faces locked in frozen surprise. What could cause such shock and fear? The terror has begun, and there is no telling where it will end.

The Art of Mass Effect: Andromeda

Author : Bioware
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506700756
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Mass Effect: Andromeda written by Bioware and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning Mass Effect series captured the renegade hearts and paragon souls of gamers everywhere with it's memorable characters, stunning visuals, and visceral combat! Now, journey to a new galaxy with Dark Horse's The Art of Mass Effect Andromeda- featuring never-before-seen art of the hotly anticipated game's characters, arsenal, locations, vehicles, and more! This deluxe hardcover is an essential addition to any gamer's collection! Exclusive never before seen concept art from the making of Mass Effect Andromeda! The comprehensive companion to the wildly anticipated Mass Effect Andromeda!

Doctor Star & The Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows: From the World of Black Hammer

Author : Jeff Lemire
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506706029
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Doctor Star & The Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows: From the World of Black Hammer written by Jeff Lemire and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dual-narrative story set in the world of the Eisner-award winning Black Hammer series chronicles the legacy of a Golden Age superhero. Collects the first four issues of Doctor Star from New York Times bestselling and Eisner-winning creator Jeff Lemire! An aged crime fighter desperately wants to reconnect with his estranged son, who he hoped would one day take the mantle of Doctor Star. Over the course of the story we learn his World War II-era origin, how he got his powers, his exciting astral adventures, the formation of some of Black Hammer's greatest heroes, and more in this heartbreaking superhero tale about fathers and sons.

So Much Synth

Author : Brenda Shaughnessy
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619321556
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book So Much Synth written by Brenda Shaughnessy and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shaughnessy's particular genius . . . is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope."—The New Yorker "Brenda Shaughnessy's work is a good place to start for any passionate woman feeling daunted by poetry." —Cosmopolitan "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."—Harvard Review Subversions of idiom and cliché punctuate Shaughnessy's fourth collection as she approaches middle age and revisits the memories, romances, and music of adolescence. So Much Synth is a brave and ferocious collection composed of equal parts femininity, pain, pleasure, and synthesizer. While Shaughnessy tenderly winces at her youthful excesses, we humbly catch glimpses of our own. From "Never Ever": Late is a synonym for dead which is a euphemism for ever. Ever is a double-edged word, at once itself and its own opposite: always and always some other time. In the category of cleave, then. To cut and to cling to, somewhat mournfully… Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of three books of poetry, including Human Dark with Sugar, winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Our Andromeda, which was a New York Times Book Review "100 Notable Books of 2013." She is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Origin Andromeda

Author : Christoffer Vuolo Junros
Publisher : Future Science Fiction Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9152738396
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Origin Andromeda written by Christoffer Vuolo Junros and published by Future Science Fiction Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origin Andromeda is the story of Henrik Harlacker, a normal, suburban man who lives with his beloved wife Joanna. His life is turned upside-down one morning when a strange present appears on his desk. Touching it, he has a vision of a distant world, and from there he and his good friend Bjorn are catapulted into an intergalactic battle between the forces of good and those of greed and malice. Though he never felt as if he fully belonged in his society, Henrik had no idea that he was, in actuality, from Zuood, a planet many millions of light-years away. Having been sent to earth for his safety, he had no memory of his earlier life. Bjorn slowly lets Henrik into the reality of Zuood's situation and the danger in which he now finds himself. "Origin Andromeda has something for fans of science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. The characters are well-written and have distinct relationships with one another." - Dr. Jeff This book is an action-packed galactic adventure loaded with technology, humour, and unique characters that grow into their roles. The universe is accurate to physical laws while not being too conservative and restricting conceivable technical solutions; new creative technologies and engines are featured throughout the book. As a natural element of the book's universe, Henrik's reality contains a few subtle references to the blockchain ledger. I hope you find the story entertaining and fascinating.

The Andromeda Galaxy and the Rise of Modern Astronomy

Author : David Schultz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461430496
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book The Andromeda Galaxy and the Rise of Modern Astronomy written by David Schultz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Andromeda Galaxy – Messier’s M31 – has an almost romantic appeal. It is the most distant object and the only extragalactic object that is visible to the unaided human eye. Now known to be about 21⁄2 million light-years away, it appears in the sky to be several times the width of the full Moon under good seeing conditions. The Andromeda Galaxy and the Rise of Modern Astronomy examines the astronomical studies of Andromeda and its importance to our developing knowledge of the universe. The book discusses how M31 was described both by the Ancients, but more importantly, by astronomers from the nineteenth century to the present. While at the start of the twentieth century the universe was thought of as a finite cosmos dominated by the Milky Way, the study of Andromeda galaxy shattered that image, leading ultimately to the conception of an infinite universe of countless galaxies and vast distances. Even today, M31 is a major focal point for new astronomical discoveries, and it also remains one of the most popular (and rewarding) celestial objects for amateur astronomers to observe and study. This book reveals the little-known history of M31 and the scientists who study it. For all who are interested in astronomy, the skies, and perhaps even the origins of the universe, The Andromeda Galaxy and the Rise of Modern Astronomy provides a first-of-its-kind accessible, informative, and highly readable account of how the study and observation of this celestial object has driven the development of astronomy from ancient times to the present.