Chet Raymo

A star guide features twenty-four star maps that cycle through the seasons and across the heavens, revealing what one can see with the naked eye throughout the year on a clear night in the Northern Hemisphere.

An Intimate Look at the Night Sky

An introduction to astronomy for every night of the year.

An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year

365 Starry Nights

Night Sky

Geologic and Topographic Profile of United States Along Interstate Eighty

The Rock Beneath, the Land Above

Reading the Landscape Along Interstate 80

An Armchair Traveler's Guide to the New Geology

The Crust of Our Earth

essays in search of the soul of science

The virgin and the mousetrap

A Love Story

Valentine

Presents a description of the history and geography of Mount Brandon in Kerry, Ireland, explaining how Mediterranean Christianity combined with Celtic nature worship to create a unique brand of Christianity in Ireland.

Science and Faith on Ireland's Holy Mountain

Climbing Brandon

A Novel of the Year 1000

In the Falcon's Claw

Natural Prayers

Dan Raymo

Set against the backdrop of World War II and growing racial tension in Tennessee, the novel Chattanooga finds Mamie Buffon, her seven daughters, two son-in-laws, granddaughter, bed-ridden brother, and two black housekeepers packed together in a highly dysfunctional household fraught with marital, sexual and racial tension. None of them could possibly imagine what the summer of 1944 had in store for them as the novel hurtles towards its dramatic conclusion.

A Novel

Chattanooga

Discovering Cosmic Space and Time Along the PRIME MERIDIAN

Walking Zero

Organizing his book according to the monastic hours of prayer, Chet Raymo examines the strength of scientific language to encounter the divine in the natural world.

A Naturalist's Search for God

Honey from Stone

A collection of essays on astonomy that course through the realms of mythology, literature, religion, history, and anthropology. -- Back cover.

An Astronomical Pilgrimage

The Soul of the Night

Years ago, noted science teacher and writer Chet Raymo embarked upon his own quest to reconcile the miracle stories he learned as a child with the science he learned as an adult. Skeptics and True Believersis the culmination of that search—a passionate, ever-inquisitive statement that science and religion can mutually reinforce the way we experience the world. Acknowledging that the scientific and the spiritual communities are increasingly split, Raymo builds strong bridges between them. He illustrates his argument with an array of thought-provoking stories, such as the remarkable migratory flight of a small bird called the red knot; the long, glorious glide of the Comet Hyakutake across the night sky; a hilarious alien abduction that didn't happen. Together, they are compelling evidence that religion should embrace the reliable knowledge of the world that science provides, while at the same time science should respect and nourish humankind's need for spiritual sustenance. "Miracles are explainable," Raymo paraphrases the writer Tim Robinson, "it is the explanations that are miraculous." For anyone drawn to reflect on life's meaning and purpose, Chet Raymo's uncompromising skepticism and reverence for mystery will affirm and inspire.

The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Spirituality

Skeptics and True Believers

the making of a religious naturalist

When God is gone everything is holy

Describes the physical history of earth and discusses the origins and development of plant and animal life

Geology, Astronomy, and the Evolution of Life on Earth

Biography of a Planet

Michael McCurdy

Balanced between poetry and physics, astronomer Chet Raymo's elegant essays ponder the connections between faith and reason. His odyssey through the heavens links the mysterious phenomena of the night sky with the human mind and spirit, showing us how the stars reinforce our humanity as he ranges through the realms of mythology, literature, religion, history, and anthropology.

For almost forty years, Chet Raymo has walked a one-mile path from his house to the college where he taught, chronicling the universe he has found through observing every detail of his route with a scientist's curiosity, a historian's respect for the past, and a child's capacity for wonder. With each step, the landscape he traversed became richer, suggesting deeper and deeper aspects of astronomy, history, biology, and literature, and making the path universal in scope. His insights inspire us to turn out local paths-- whether through cities, suburbs, or rural areas-- into portals to greater understanding of our interconnectedness with nature and history.

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