With this book Immanuel Velikovsky first presented the revolutionary results of his ten-year-long interdisciplinary research to the public, founded modern catastrophism-based on eyewitness reports by our ancestors-shook the doctrine of uniformity of geology as well as Darwin's theory of evolution, put our view of the history of our solar system, of the Earth and of humanity on a completely new basis-and caused an uproar that is still going on today. Worlds...

Describes some of the characteristics of stars, those hot glowing inhabitants of space, of which the sun is but one.

Dora and Boots try to get Little Star home after a comet knocks him out of the sky.

Describes stars and constellations throughout the year and ways of identifying them.

The class decides to buy a star for Dorothy Ann's birthday. Join Ms. Frizzle's class on a field trip to outer space where they do some careful star shopping and learn alot of star knowledge along the way.

Explains why stars in the night sky appear to twinkle.

In an illustrated volume, a writer and stargazer and an international artist join forces to leap between centuries, cultures and traditions, presenting a whole universe of stars and their stories in all their blazing glory. --Publisher's description.