Cosmology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692666524Author AwodeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Bekh, LLCPublisher Bekh, LLCWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

A groundbreaking exploration of how psychedelics and quantum science are vital to understanding the evolution of consciousness and reality * Explains why altered states of consciousness exist, how they work, and why psychedelics have the effects that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470613528Author John GribbinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Initially composed by Poe as a public lecture towards the end of his career and considered by him the culmination of all his life's work, Eureka is an extended treatise about the creation, existence and the ultimate end of the world. An idiosyncratic...

The book aims to expound the general theory of relativity with a mathematical point of view. Catering to the needs of postgraduate students and researchers in the field of astrophysics and mathematical physics, it offers the readers a comprehensive...

Numerical relativity has emerged as the key tool to model gravitational waves - recently detected for the first time - that are emitted when black holes or neutron stars collide. This book provides a pedagogical, accessible, and concise introduction to...

A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang-and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universeScientists in recent decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past...

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...

Writing for the general reader or student, Wald has completely revised and updated this highly regarded work to include recent developments in black hole physics and cosmology. Nature called the first edition "a very readable and accurate account of...

Inflationary cosmology has been developed over the last twenty years to remedy serious shortcomings in the standard hot big bang model of the universe. This textbook, first published in 2005, explains the basis of modern cosmology and shows where the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938024467Author Lecturer Department of Physics Fred KuttnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Science PublishersPublisher Science...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984887269Author Stephen HawkingFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)...

A concise introduction to the greatest questions of modern cosmology.What came before the big bang? How will the universe evolve into the future? Will there be a big crunch? Questions like these have no definitive answers, but there are many contending...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061344442Author George SmootFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

This 2004 textbook fills a gap in the literature on general relativity by providing the advanced student with practical tools for the computation of many physically interesting quantities. The context is provided by the mathematical theory of black...

This classic book is essential reading for all those interested in the development of modern physics. Sir Arthur Eddington's account of the general theory of relativity, 'without,' as he says in his preface, 'introducing anything very technical in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525432173Author Brian GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Cosmology has been transformed by dramatic progress in high-precision observations and theoretical modelling. This book surveys key developments and open issues for graduate students and researchers. Using a relativistic geometric approach, it focuses on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278128Author Brian GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined. The puzzle at the centre of our knowledge of the universe is time. Michael Lockwood takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the nature of things. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515163664Author Paul F KisakFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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 9781943056064Author Edward HendrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 786Imprint Great Mountain PublishingPublisher Great Mountain PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780553804362Author Stephen HawkingFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House...

This book is a collection of dovetailing essays which together interpret and assess the chief arguments and texts which make up Plato's cosmology. Arguments in the Timaeus, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, and Laws X are analyzed with an eye to problems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519665829Author Paul F KisakFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523440238Author John DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535575Author Caleb ScharfFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

-- Publishers WeeklyIn the interdisciplinary tradition of Buckminster Fuller's work, Gregory Bateson's Mind and Nature, and Fritjof Capra's Tao of Physics, Metapatterns embraces both nature and culture, seeking out the grand-scale patterns that help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471399766Author Mario LivioFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 416gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511530071Author Chris H Hardy Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The Moon is the most viewed object in the sky, the Sun being too bright to look at directly and the planets too far away. The Greeks deduced everything that could be learned about the Moon using only the naked eye, including that it has no light of its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939681577Author Rupert SheldrakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing...

The Fourth Edition of Introduction to Cosmology provides a concise, authoritative study of cosmology at an introductory level. Starting from elementary principles and the early history of cosmology, the text carefully guides the student on to curved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047210Author Roberto BattistonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This monograph describes the different formulations of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Unlike traditional treatments, Cartan's geometry of fibre bundles and differential forms is placed at the forefront, and a detailed review of the relevant...

The advent of sensitive high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation and their successful interpretation in terms of the standard cosmological model has led to great confidence in this model's reality. The prevailing attitude...

This third edition of Malcolm Longair's highly acclaimed textbook is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology expounding the structure of classical cosmological models from a contemporary viewpoint. This forms the background to a detailed study of...

This book provides a thorough introduction to Einstein's special theory of relativity, suitable for anyone with a minimum of one year's university physics with calculus. It is divided into fundamental and advanced topics. The first section starts by...

This 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...