Reviews for How to Help Your Child Land the Right Job

The average rating for How to Help Your Child Land the Right Job based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-04-05 00:00:00 David Popiak A gorgeous book with excellent layout and beautiful pictures. I like the organization structure of moving through the solar system in order of descending size, which gives a different perspective than by distance from the sun. Of course nearly 40 years later we have much more detail about many of these bodies, and now you can go to Google maps and actually browse the planets and a handful of the moons just as you can the earth - if you have not done so, go check it out. In any case, this book gives lots of detail about the planets and their friends, and because of the nature of science, our knowledge of the solar system builds on what was learned before, making most of the information still useful, and still just as cool.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-04-13 00:00:00 Eddie O Grady Although now 40-years old, Miller & Hartmann's book still holds a firm place in my affections. The clue is in the title; this is not so much a scientific guide to our little corner of the galaxy (even though there's plenty of fascinating data in there) so much as a guidebook to what it would be like to be on Titan, or in the clouds of Jupiter. The language used is almost poetically-evocative at times. "Cold winds blow down lonely canyon floors on Mars; morning mists form in craters and valleys; clouds condense over high volcanic mountains... All these events are happening now... Mars is awaiting our next visit." Combined with a plethora of gorgeous pained illustrations, if you have yearning for the stars (or at least the nearby worlds of our solar system, then this is a book to stir the imagination, for all that some of the scientific facts have been superseded, and is worth searching out to take its place on your bookshelf.