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The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality by Robert Lanza
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €13.96What if life isn't just a part of the universe . . . what if it determines the very structure of the universe itself? The theory that blew your mind in Biocentrism and Beyond Biocentrism is back, with brand-new research revealing the startling truth... -
Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos by Chris Ferrie
Booksplease Price: €17.22Do you ever look up to the stars and wonder about what is out there?Over the last few centuries, humans have successfully unraveled much of the language of the universe, exploring and defining formerly mysterious phenomena such as electricity, magnetism,... -
Galaxies Or Graur 9780262548755
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548755Author Or GraurFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Little Book of Exoplanets by Joshua N. Winn
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.65A concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveriesFor centuries, people have speculated about the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars, but only since the 1990s has technology... -
This Way to the Universe: A Journey into Physics by Michael Dine
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.26'Everything you wanted to know about physics but were afraid to ask' Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens__________________________When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible book... -
Why the Universe Exists by New Scientist
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.46As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons.If the recent discovery of the Higgs... -
Rocket Science: From Fireworks to the Photon Drive by Mark Denny 9783030280796
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €30.88This is a book about rocket science: what it is and what it does. From the earliest fireworks to nuclear-powered spacecraft, all you would ever want or need to know about the subject is here, along with a straightforward explanation of how, why and when... -
Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature by Peter Atkins 9780198813378
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.24The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where... -
The Primordial Density Perturbation: Cosmology, Inflation and the Origin of Structure by David H. Lyth 9780521828499
RRP: €80.91Booksplease Price: €72.79The origin and evolution of the primordial perturbation is the key to understanding structure formation in the earliest stages of the Universe. It carries clues to the types of physical phenomena active in that extreme high-density environment. Through... -
Gemini - Steps to the Moon by David Shayler 9781852334055
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €38.58In Gemini - Steps to the Moon, author David Shayler unfolds the story of the origin and development of the programme and the spacecraft from the perspective of the engineers, flight controllers and astronauts involved. It includes chapters on flight... -
Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from <i>Quanta</i> by Thomas Lin
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536349Author Thomas LinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Relativity Made Relatively Easy Volume 2: General Relativity and Cosmology by Andrew Steane 9780192893543
RRP: €49.37Booksplease Price: €46.93Following on from a previous volume on Special Relativity, Andrew Steane's second volume on General Relativity and Cosmology is aimed at advanced undergraduate or graduate students undertaking a physics course, and encourages them to expand their... -
The Montauk Project - Experiments in Time: Silver Anniversary Edition by Preston B Nichols 9781937859213
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €16.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937859213Author Preston B NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Sky Books (NY)Publisher Sky Books (NY) -
The Science of Star Wars: An Astrophysicists Independent Examination of Space Travel, Aliens, Planets, and Robots as Portrayed in the Star Wars Film by Jeanne Cavelos 9780312263874
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €13.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263874Author Jeanne CavelosFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job Emily Lakdawalla 9783319681443
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €31.71This book describes the most complex machine ever sent to another planet: Curiosity. It is a one-ton robot with two brains, seventeen cameras, six wheels, nuclear power, and a laser beam on its head. No one human understands how all of its systems and... -
Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon by Mike Gray 9780393325133
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €21.30Centuries from now, when the Cold War is as remote as the War of Roses and the passions of our time have faded into footnotes, humanity will still remember July 16, 1969, the day the first human beings departed from earth bound for a landing on the moon... -
Introduction To Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, An Michael John Thompson (High Altitude Observatory, Nat'l Center For Atmospheric Research, Usa) 9781860946332
RRP: €54.74Booksplease Price: €48.52This book provides an introduction for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students to the field of astrophysical fluid dynamics. Although sometimes ignored, fluid dynamical processes play a central role in virtually all areas of astrophysics.No... -
Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy, With a New Afterword by Govert Schilling
RRP: €18.98Booksplease Price: €16.24A Physics Today Best Book of the YearA Forbes "For the Physics and Astronomy Lover in Your Life" Selection"Succinct, accessible, and remarkably timely... This book is a rare find."-Physics Today"Belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in learning the... -
Astronomy: The Human Quest for Understanding by Dale Ostlie 9780198825838
RRP: €56.51Booksplease Price: €55.42Since humans first looked up at the stars, astronomy has had a particular ability to stir the imagination and challenge the thinking of scientists and non-scientists alike. Astronomy: The Human Quest for Understanding is an introductory astronomy... -
The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox by Milan M. Cirkovic
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €44.47The Great Silence explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question "Where is everybody?" In many respects, Fermi's paradox is the richest and the most challenging problem for... -
An Introduction to the Theory of Stellar Structure and Evolution by Dina Prialnik
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.08Using fundamental physics, the theory of stellar structure and evolution can predict how stars are born, how their complex internal structure changes, what nuclear fuel they burn, and their ultimate fate. This textbook is a stimulating introduction for... -
Creations Of Fire: Chemistry's Lively History From Alchemy To The Atomic Age by Cathy Cobb 9780738205946
Booksplease Price: €33.34In this fascinating history, Cathy Cobb and Harold Goldwhite celebrate not only chemistry's theories and breakthroughs but also the provocative times and personalities that shaped this amazing science and brought it to life. Throughout the book, the... -
The Wraparound Universe Jean-Pierre Luminet 9781568813097
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €115.44What shape is the universe? Is it curved and closed in on itself? Is it expanding? Where is it headed? Could space be wrapped around itself, such that it produces ghost images of faraway galaxies? Such are the questions posed by Jean-Pierre Luminet in... -
The Mythology of the Night Sky: Greek, Roman, and Other Celestial Lore by David E. Falkner
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €27.92This book is for amateur astronomers who would like to know the mythology behind the names of astronomical objects in the night sky. It covers the lore and legend behind Ptolemy's 48 constellations, along with significant asterisms, the planets and their... -
Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began by Guido Tonelli
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.53'Mind-inflating' Wired 'A grand vision of the marvels we've discovered, and the immensity of what we still don't understand' Sunday Times What if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe really did spring into being out of chaos and the... -
Vera Rubin: A Life by Jacqueline Mitton
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €24.03The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement of women in science. One of the great lingering mysteries of the universe is dark matter. Scientists... -
How to Observe the Sun Safely by Lee Macdonald 9781461438243
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €36.40"How to Observe the Sun Safely, 2nd Edition" gives all the basic information and advice the amateur astronomer needs to get started in observing our own ever-fascinating star. Unlike many other astronomical objects, you do not need a large telescope or... -
John S Bell On The Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics by Mary Bell
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €24.81This book is the most complete collection of John S Bell's research papers, review articles and lecture notes on the foundations of quantum mechanics. Some of this material has hitherto been difficult to access. The book also appears in a paperback... -
Particle Cosmology and Astrophysics by Edward W. Kolb 9780691235042
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €57.95A graduate-level introduction to the interface between particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmologyThis book explores the exciting interface between the fields of cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, and particle physics, at a level suitable for... -
The Observation and Analysis of Stellar Photospheres by David F. Gray 9781009078016
RRP: €69.01Booksplease Price: €61.87This textbook describes the equipment, observational techniques, and analysis used in the investigation of stellar photospheres. Now in its fourth edition, the text has been thoroughly updated and revised to be more accessible to students. New figures... -
A Breviary of Seismic Tomography: Imaging the Interior of the Earth and Sun by Guust Nolet 9780521882446
RRP: €89.24Booksplease Price: €82.72This is the first textbook to cover the essential aspects of the topic at a level accessible to students. While focusing on applications in solid earth geophysics, the book also includes excursions into helioseismology, thereby highlighting the strong... -
Magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun by Eric Priest 9780521854719
RRP: €94.00Booksplease Price: €88.55Magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun is a completely new up-to-date rewrite from scratch of the 1982 book Solar Magnetohydrodynamics, taking account of enormous advances in understanding since that date. It describes the subtle and complex interaction between... -
Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines Jim Al-Khalili 9781439885598
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €47.83Bringing the material up to date, Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines, Second Edition captures the new ideas and discoveries made in physics since the publication of the best-selling first edition. While retaining the popular format and style of its... -
Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond by Christopher Wanjek
RRP: €21.36Booksplease Price: €18.06A Telegraph Best Science Book of the Year"A witty yet in-depth exploration of the prospects for human habitation beyond Earth...Spacefarers is accessible, authoritative, and in the end, inspiring."-Richard Panek, author of The Trouble with GravityIt's... -
Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story by David Hitt 9780803236394
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.29As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apollo moon program. But between conception and execution stood the vastness of space itself, to say... -
Astrochemistry: From The Big Bang To The Present Day by Claire Vallance 9781786340382
RRP: €44.03Booksplease Price: €39.84'This book could appeal to astronomers interested in interstellar and circumstellar matter who would like to know more about the processes in them from a chemistaEURO (TM)s perspective in a modern textbook. Overall, I found this book very informative and... -
Cosmology's Century: An Inside History of Our Modern Understanding of the Universe by P. J. E. Peebles 9780691196022
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €40.10From Nobel Prize-winning physicist P. J. E. Peebles, the story of cosmology from Einstein to todayModern cosmology began a century ago with Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity and his notion of a homogenous, philosophically satisfying cosmos... -
Time Travel: In Einstein's Universe Richard Gott 9780753813492
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.87One of the world's most outstanding astrophysicists provides a state-of-the-art investigation into the possibility of time travel.Human beings have a strong desire to travel through time. Although scientists are not yet taking out patents on a time... -
The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It by Robert Zimmerman 9780691146355
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.65The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most stunning images of the cosmos humanity has ever seen. It has transformed our understanding of the universe around us, revealing new information about its age and evolution, the life cycle of stars, and the... -
Stellar Evolution, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Nucleogenesis by Cameron 9780486498553
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €12.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486498553Author Cameron CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...