Wonders of the Universe

A beautiful book that gives a brief tour of some of the wonders of the universe and explains things at the level of a non-scientist. Excellent photography. With each concept he explains, he tries to tie it with something he has experienced in travels here on earth. (I thought much of that aspect was a bit hokey and felt like an excellent excuse to travel to some pretty exotic locations and deduct the trips... not that there's anything wrong with that!).

If you have an interest in science but don't have a lot of background knowledge, this book will be interesting to you. There is precisely ZERO math discussed or involved. If you are well versed with these scientific principles, I suspect you'll find nothing new here, but the photos are beautiful and it's worth flipping through at Barnes and Noble to see if it would make a nice coffee table book for your living room.