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Touch the Universe: A Nasa Braille Book of Astronomy | 
 enlarge | Author: Noreen Grice
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 121254
Format: Braille
Media: Spiral-bound
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 68
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 030908332X
Dewey Decimal Number: 520.222
EAN: 9780309083324
ASIN: 030908332X
Publication Date: October 30, 2002
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Condition: Brand New. Very nice book.
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Product Description
Touch the Universe is an innovative and unique astronomy book. It is a combination of Braille and large-print captions that face 14 pages of brilliant Hubble Space Telescope photos with embossed shapes that represent various astronomical objects such as stars, gas clouds, and jets of matter streaming into space. "Universally designed" for both the sighted and visually impaired reader, Touch the Universe takes readers on a voyage of discovery, starting at Earth, proceeding through the solar system, and ending with the most distant image taken by Hubble, the mind-boggling "Hubble Deep Field" photo -- the first telescope image ever to bring home to human consciousness in a deeply fundamental way the literally infinite reaches of our universe of galaxies. As the author puts it, "A visually impaired person can still touch and smell a flower, or a tree, or an animal, but he or she could only imagine what an astronomical object is like ... until now."
Book Description
Touch the Universe is a unique and innovative astronomy book that will help visually impaired people "see" the wonders of our universe. Using a combination of Braille and large-print captions that face 14 pages of brilliant Hubble Space Telescope photos, it is embossed with shapes that represent various astronomical objects such as stars, gas clouds, and jets of matter streaming into space.
"Universally designed" for both the sighted and visually impaired reader, Touch the Universe takes readers on a voyage of discovery, starting at Earth, proceeding through the solar system, and ending with the most distant image taken by Hubble, the mind-boggling "Hubble Deep Field" photo -- the first telescope image ever to bring home to human consciousness in a deeply fundamental way the literally infinite reaches of our universe of galaxies.
As the author puts it, "A visually impaired person can still touch and smell a flower, or a tree, or an animal, but he or she could only imagine what an astronomical object is like ... until now."
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| Customer Reviews:
A masterpiece! March 4, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This could very well be one of the best braille books ever. As a wife to a blind man and involved with an organization that helps blind children, this is a book we all enjoy "looking at" over and over again.
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