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The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is by Roberto Trotta
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.79From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology,with a twist. The... -
Relativity Made Relatively Easy Volume 2: General Relativity and Cosmology by Andrew Steane 9780192895646
Booksplease Price: €122.21Following 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... -
This Way to the Universe: A Journey into Physics by Michael Dine 9780241992036
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.28'Extraordinary' Leonard Susskind'A rare event' Sean Carroll_____When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible and authoritative book that would teach you about the Big Bang, Dark Matter, the Higgs... -
The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter by Govert Schilling
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €26.32An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matter-and shows how that search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit.When you train a telescope on outer space, you can see luminous galaxies, nebulae,... -
Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies by Michael Brooks 9781786496959
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.72'A wonderful book... Delightfully varied... As with all the best science writing, this book doesn't just give answers, it also asks interesting questions.' Daily Mail'Captivating and intelligent! Who knew death could be this much fun?' Richard... -
Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits by John D. Barrow 9780099772118
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.12What can we never do? Barrow looks at what limits there might be to human discovery, and what we might find, ultimately, to be unknowable, undoable, or unthinkable. Science is a big success story, but where will it end? And, indeed, will it end? Weaving... -
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall 9780060531096
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060531096Author Lisa RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd -
The Science of Star Wars: The Scientific Facts Behind the Force, Space Travel, and More! by Mark Brake
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.50Discover the science behind the most popular sci-fi franchise of all time! We marvel at the variety of creatures and technology and the mystery behind the force. But how much of the Star Wars world is rooted in reality? Could we see some of the... -
Cosmology by Steven Weinberg 9780198526827
RRP: €97.58Booksplease Price: €95.68This book is unique in the detailed, self-contained, and comprehensive treatment that it gives to the ideas and formulas that are used and tested in modern cosmological research. It divides into two parts, each of which provides enough material for a... -
Astrophysics And The Evolution Of The Universe by Leonard S. Kisslinger 9789814520904
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €44.49The aim of this book is to teach undergraduate college or university students the basic physics concepts needed to understand the mathematics which describes the evolution of the universe, and based on this to teach the astrophysical theories behind... -
The Search for Life by Hannah Banyard 9781906367909
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.19Have you ever looked up at the night sky and thought, 'is there anybody out there?' The stars you see are the suns of other solar systems, each system with its own complex story of formation and evolution, perhaps leading to an environment where life can... -
The Mathematical Universe: From Pythagoras to Planck by Joel L. Schiff
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €44.48I first had a quick look, then I started reading it. I couldn't stop. -Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Prize, in Physics 1999)This is a book about the mathematical nature of our Universe. Armed with no more than basic high school mathematics, Dr. Joel L. Schiff... -
The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking 9780691168449
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.65Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of... -
Cosmic Origins: Science’s Long Quest to Understand How Our Universe Began by M. Mitchell Waldrop 9783030982164
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €19.56Cosmic Origins tells the story of how physicists and astronomers have struggled for more than a century to understand the beginnings of our universe, from its origins in the Big Bang to the modern day. The book will introduce the science as a narrative,... -
Cosmology: The Science of the Universe by Edward Harrison
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €102.13Cosmology: The Science of the Universe is an introduction to past and present cosmological theory. For much of the world's history, cosmological thought was formulated in religious or philosophical language and was thus theological or metaphysical in... -
Endless Universe: Beyond The Big Bang Paul J. Steinhardt 9780753824429
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.29A radical, yet accessible, new theory of the origins and future of the universe by two of the world's leading cosmologistsThe first serious challenge to the widely accepted 'Big Bang' model of the universe. According to 'Big Bang' theory, space and time... -
3,000 Deep-Sky Objects: An Annotated Catalogue by Ted Aranda 9781441994189
RRP: €67.82Booksplease Price: €55.93This title is a comprehensive set of visual descriptions of deep-sky objects visible from the northern hemisphere. It is a record of the most extensive and systematic visual survey of the sky ever done in modern times. 3,000 deep-sky objects are listed... -
A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: A Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation by Itzhak Bentov
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892818143Author Itzhak BentovFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Destiny Books,U.S.Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Unknown Universe: A New Exploration of Time, Space, and Modern Cosmology by Stuart Clark 9781681774466
RRP: €24.93Booksplease Price: €21.30On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is physically impossible to make a better map: we will never see the early... -
When Einstein Walked with Goedel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought by Jim Holt 9780374538422
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538422Author Jim HoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
The Sun by Brendan Owens 9781906367862
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.38The enormous significance of the Sun to our lives has been felt ever since ominous eclipses and mysterious sunspots were observed many thousands of years ago. Scientists and astronomers from many different fields have contributed over the centuries to... -
The State of the Universe: A Primer in Modern Cosmology Pedro Ferreira 9780753822562
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.29A masterly overview of the development of cosmological thinking from the Greeks, via Newton and Einstein, to the present day.It is science's last and greatest challenge: fathoming the depths of the night sky. The objective: to crack the cosmic code, to... -
Astronomical: From Quarks to Quasars, the Science of Space at its Strangest Tim James 9781472144324
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.15'In the same light-heartedly informative spirit as his previous Elemental, Tim James gives us an entertaining gallop through light years of space science, from the big bang to UFOs'Andrew Crumey, author of The Great Chain of UnbeingPRAISE FOR THE... -
Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology by Mary Douglas
Booksplease Price: €19.52One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times, but instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols... -
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €20.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984819192Author Stephen HawkingFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality by Robert Lanza
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.20What 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... -
Origins: The Cosmos in Verse Joseph Conlon 9780861549115
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.22There raged a thumping cosmic ballyhoo, A manic dance - a rumpus to arouse The universe: of Higgs and W, Electrons, gluons, muons, Zs and taus... For centuries poetry and science have been improbable, yet constant, bedfellows. Chaucer was an... -
300 Problems in Special and General Relativity: With Complete Solutions by Mattias Blennow
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €29.38Einstein's theories of special relativity and general relativity form a core part of today's undergraduate (or Masters-level) physics curriculum. This is a supplementary problem book or student's manual, consisting of 150 problems in each of special and... -
Simulating the Cosmos: Why the Universe Looks the Way It Does by Romeel Davé 9781789147148
RRP: €21.36Booksplease Price: €16.68Simulating the Cosmos is a behind-the-scenes look into one of the hottest and fastest-moving areas of astrophysics today: simulations of cosmology and galaxy formation, which illustrate how everything we see in the universe arose out of the primordial... -
The Crowd and the Cosmos: Adventures in the Zooniverse by Chris Lintott 9780198842231
RRP: €14.86Booksplease Price: €11.52'fascinating' Brian Cox This is the story of citizen science. Where once astronomers sat at the controls of giant telescopes in remote locations, praying for clear skies, now they have no need to budge from their desks, as data arrives in their... -
Journey of the Universe by Brian Thomas Swimme 9780300209433
Booksplease Price: €16.01An 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... -
A Mysterious Universe: Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, and Cosmology for Everyone by M. Suhail Zubairy 9780198883067
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €25.07A Mysterious Universe introduces the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics, theory of relativity, and cosmology to a novice in simple language. This concise book deals with deep issues related to the mysteries of modern physics. Both quantum... -
Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics by Thomas K. Gaisser 9780521016469
RRP: €70.21Booksplease Price: €67.16Fully updated for the second edition, this book introduces the growing and dynamic field of particle astrophysics. It provides an overview of high-energy nuclei, photons and neutrinos, including their origins, their propagation in the cosmos, their... -
The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report by Timothy Ferris 9780684838618
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684838618Author Timothy FerrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 393Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363g -
The UFO Abduction Book: Extraordinary Encounters of the Terrifying Kind by Brad Steiger 9781590033074
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590033074Author Brad SteigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser -
Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action by Robert John Russell 9780268039769
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.21This collection of seventeen essays explores the implications of quantum cosmology regarding God's action in the world. The result is a profound contribution to constructive theology, engaging current research in the natural sciences and investigating... -
A Key to Whitehead's "Process and Reality" by Donald W. Sherburne 9780226752938
Booksplease Price: €37.13Whitehead'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... -
Stars by Greg Brown
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.38Whether stargazing with the naked eye or observing deep space with the largest telescopes in the world, humans have a seemingly neverending fascination with the stars. Our ancestors saw patterns in their random arrangement, inventing both tales of... -
First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time by Emma Chapman
Booksplease Price: €13.29Opens a window into a previously dark and secret time in our universe's history: when the first stars were born. Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the Universe's history, from recording the afterglow of the Big Bang to imaging... -
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson 9780393350395
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €16.39Our true origins are not just human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and the current cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology Origins explains the soul-stirring leaps in our...