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Article: Paperbacks; Scientist Chet Raymo looks at the world as naturalist and poet He writes of snowflakes, constellations, comets, death, and sees beauty everywhere.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Review) (book review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- April 13, 1997
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With the Heaven's Gate tragedy still fresh in memory, it seems a bit strange to recommend a book in which the author spends a lot of time looking to the stars, but Chet Raymo isn't a hysteric, a cultist or an apocalyptic prophet. He is a scientist with a naturalist's eye and a poet's heart. Honey From Stone (Hungry Mind Press, $15) is a glorious mix of science, religion, astronomy and nature by a columnist for the Boston Globe who also is a professor of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts.
Raymo's book is patterned after a monk's Book of Hours, and its chapters are named for the eight canonical hours of the day - Matins, Lauds, Prime, ...
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February 13, 1998 ;
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... ... behemoth competitors, St. Paul's Hungry Mind bookstore is an anomaly. It's independent ... it's growing. Come mid-March, Hungry Mind will open a second store a few doors ... We're so crowded." Next month, Hungry Mind will move its bargain book component ...
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