num_pages: 495
description: Winner of the 1988 American Institute of Physics Prize and named one of 1988's best books by the New York Times Book Review , this brilliant, lively and informative book seeks to comprehend the enormities of cosmic space and time and how this quest has shaped religion, politics and philosophy.
language: English
title: Coming of Age in the Milky Way
titlecomplete: Coming of Age in the Milky Way
genres: Philosophy, Science, Physics, Nonfiction, History, Space, Astronomy, History Of Science, Science Nature, Popular Science
ratings_count: 3001
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award
publisher: Vintage / Random House