Cosmology

Our universe seems strangely "biophilic," or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer depends on the answer to another question, the one posed by Einstein's famous remark:...

What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, revealed that they'd glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang. Millions around the world tuned in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618711680Author Leon LedermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684424603Author John GribbinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company

In this short book, renowned theoretical physicist and author Carlo Rovelli gives a straightforward introduction to Einstein's General Relativity, our current theory of gravitation. Focusing on conceptual clarity, he derives all the basic results in the...

Science evolves through alternating phases of "normal science" and radical shifts that create scientific revolutions. We saw this at the turn of the 20th century, when science shifted from a Newtonian worldview to Einstein's relativity paradigm, and...

How fixed are the happenings in Nature and how are they fixed? These lectures address what our scientific successes at predicting and manipulating the world around us suggest in answer. One-very orthodox-account teaches that the sciences offer general...

A scientifically-based exploration of the invisible forces that shape our world* Shares the results of the author's rigorous, repeatable, and predictable experiments with subtle energy * Shows how the mind interacts with matter by means of subtle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553109535Author Stephen HawkingFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375727207Author Brian GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Alfred A KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 131mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936599226Author David KlinghofferFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Discovery InstitutePublisher Discovery InstituteWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Our understanding of the physical universe underwent a revolution in the early twentieth century - evolving from the classical physics of Newton, Galileo, and Maxwell to the modern physics of relativity and quantum mechanics. The dominant figure in...

Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science is a presentation of science for the general reader, with an emphasis on correcting widely held misconceptions, and a call to liberate science from 'private ownership' in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621384076Author Jean BorellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

From Stonehenge to beyond the Big Bang, an exhilarating scientific exploration of how we make time Time is the grandest conception of the universe that we humans have been able to imagine - and its most intimate, the very frame of human life. In About...

From Stonehenge to beyond the Big Bang, an exhilarating scientific exploration of how we make time Time is the grandest conception of the universe that we humans have been able to imagine - and its most intimate, the very frame of human life. In About...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345336897Author Carl SaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 170mm...

An epic story of the emergence of the universe and of the community of life, with a new vision for how we might bring forth a vibrant Earth Community Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of...

This book is about black holes, one of the most intriguing objects of modern theoretical physics and astrophysics. For many years, black holes have been considered as interesting solutions of the Theory of General Relativity with a number of amusing...

The two-volume book Gravitational Waves provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the physics of gravitational waves. While Volume 1 is devoted to the theory and experiments, Volume 2 discusses what can be learned from gravitational waves in...

Whitehead's magnum opus is as important as it is difficult. It is the only work in which his metaphysical ideas are stated systematically and completely, and his metaphysics are the heart of his philosophical system as a whole. Sherburne has rearranged...

Living with the Stars tells the fascinating story of what truly makes the human body. The body that is with us all our lives is always changing. We are quite literally not who we were years, weeks, or even days ago: our cells die and are replaced by new...

THE FIVE AGES OF THE UNIVERSE is a riveting biography of the universe which describes for the first time five distinct eras that Adams and Laughlin themselves defined as a result of their own research. From the first gasp of inflation that caused the...

A number of authors have noted that if some physical parameters were slightly changed, the universe could no longer support life, as we know it. This implies that life depends sensitively on the physics of our universe. Does this "fine-tuning" of the...

This 1995 book delivers a quantitative account of the science of cosmology, designed for a non-specialist audience. The basic principles are outlined using simple maths and physics, while still providing rigorous models of the Universe. It offers an...

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New Cosmic Horizons tells the extraordinary story of space-based astronomy since the Second World War. Starting with the launch of the V2 rocket in 1946, this book explores the triumphs of space experiments and spacecraft designs and the amazing...

The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness...

From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that kept changing, from a mechanical model of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468314243Author John HandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 674Imprint Abrams PressPublisher Abrams PressWeight(grams) 807gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 38mm

This book is a gentle introduction for all those wishing to learn about modern views of the cosmos. Our universe originated in a great explosion - the big bang. For nearly a century cosmologists have studied the aftermath of this explosion: how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278463Author Roger PenroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385262125Author James TrefilFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 269gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

From 22-25 May, 2002, the University of Groningen hosted an international conference on 'The Book of Nature. Continuity and change in European and American attitudes towards the natural world'. From Antiquity down to our own time, theologians,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788478088072Author Robert P LanzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint Editorial SirioPublisher Editorial SirioWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Explore spectacular advances in cosmology, relativistic astrophysics, gravitational wave science, mathematics, computational science, and the interface of gravitation and quantum physics with this unique celebration of the centennial of Einstein's...

Throughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of everything': highly ambitious attempts to understand nature in its totality. This account presents these theories in their historical contexts, from little known hypotheses from the past to...

The topic of the CVIII session of the Ecole de Physique des Houches, held in July 2017, was Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Effective Field Theory (EFT) is a general method for describing quantum systems with multiple length...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939578143Author Paul SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Pitchstone PublishingPublisher Pitchstone PublishingWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm)...

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