Books and Publications
Terenzi is best known for her CD-ROM Invisible Universe (Voyager Company), which blends astronomy and music into an entertaining and enlightening voyage through the stars, which won the SIGCAT Award for "Most Creative Application of Multimedia in Higher and Adult Education".
She is also known for a sexually charged book about science entitled Heavenly Knowledge. Her Avon/HarperCollins book, "Heavenly Knowledge", explores astronomy as a metaphor for human relationships and humanity's place in the Universe. The book, covered on ABC Radio, NPR Talk of The Nation, BBC Radio, and The Sci-Fi Channel, has been translated into Italian ("Musica Dalle Stelle" released by Sperling-Kupfer/Mondadori and bundled with her music CD "Galactically Yours"), German ("Der Kosmos ist weiblich" released by GoldmannBertelsmann), Latvian and other languages.
Terenzi wrote the foreword for Paula Berinstein's recent book "Making Space Happen: Private Space Efforts and the People Behind Them" (Plexus Books) and has been featured in full chapter in Laura Woodmansee's "Women of Space: Cool Careers on the Final Frontier" (Apogee Books) and the music and technology book "The Art of Digital Music" by Kelli Richards and David Battino. She also provided a technical review of the educational text book "The Physics of Every Day Phenomena" by Thomas Griffith (McGraw-Hill), “Physics for the Life Sciences" by Philip Kesten and David Tauk (W.H. Freeman & Company),
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