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Search For Our Cosmic Ancestry, The by Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe 9789814616973
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.79The idea that life is a cosmic, rather than a purely terrestrial phenomenon, has progressed from scientific heresy to mainstream science within the short timespan of a few decades. The theory of... -
Proofs That Life Is Cosmic: Acceptance Of A New Paradigm by Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe 9789813233102
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £61.42This is a revisit of a radical theory of cometary panspermia and cosmic life that was first proposed by Chandra Wickramasinghe and the late Sir Fred Hoyle in 1982. In its earliest form the theory of... -
Convergence To Cosmicrobia: The Final Acceptance Of Life As A Cosmic Phenomenon Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe 9789819800889
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £62.28Forty years ago, Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe challenged the long-held belief that life originated spontaneously from a primordial soup on Earth — a concept rooted in Aristotelian philosophy... -
Where Did We Come From?: Life Of An Astrobiologist Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe (Univ Of Buckingham, Uk) 9789814641401
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.12The life story of this book spans many stages of the life and scientific career of one of the foremost astrophysicists/astrobiologists of our times. Starting from his boyhood days, the book describes... -
More Than Curious: A Science Memoir by William Henry Press 9789819803002
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.37In this riveting memoir, journey alongside a physicist who had the rare privilege of witnessing — and contributing to — some of the most groundbreaking developments in 20th-century science. With... -
Where Did We Come From?: Life Of An Astrobiologist by Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe 9789814641395
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £50.23The life story of this book spans many stages of the life and scientific career of one of the foremost astrophysicists/astrobiologists of our times. Starting from his boyhood days, the book describes... -
Comets And The Origin Of Life Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe (Univ Of Buckingham, Uk) 9789812566355
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.35The idea that comets may be connected with the origin of life on Earth was considered heresy a few decades ago, with scientists shying away from this possibility as if from a medieval superstition... -
Taking the Back off the Watch: A Personal Memoir by Thomas Gold 9783642275876
Booksplease Price: £90.56Thomas Gold (1920-2004) had a curious mind that liked to solve problems. He was one of the most remarkable astrophysicists in the second half of the twentieth century, and he attracted controversy... -
Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories by Michael Brotherton 9783319411019
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.32This anthology contains fourteen intriguing stories by active research scientists and other writers trained in science. Science is at the heart of real science fiction, which is more than just... -
Quantum Computing from Colossus to Qubits: The History, Theory, and Application of a Revolutionary Science by John Gribbin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The revolution is here. In breakthrough after breakthrough, pioneering physicists are unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences... -
Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley by John Gribbin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Shortlisted for the BSHS Hughes Prize What if Isaac Newton had never lived? Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has... -
The Earth: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Redfern
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.30For generations, the ground beneath the feet of our ancestors seemed solid and unchanging. Around 30 years ago, two things happened that were to revolutionize the understanding of our home planet... -
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In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat: Updated Edition by John Gribbin 9780552125550 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £4.86Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of all modern sciences. Without it, we'd have no... -
Facts and Speculations in Cosmology by Jayant Vishnu Narlikar 9780521865043
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £60.76A thought-provoking insight into the evolution of cosmology for undergraduate students and general readers, this book shows that the mystery of the origin of the universe is far from being solved... -
Dr Thomas Plume, 1630-1704: His life and legacies in Essex, Kent and Cambridge by Tony Doe
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.99Dr Thomas Plume, born in Maldon in Essex in 1630, is remembered today for the many bequests he left which established important scientific, religious and cultural charities. Still operational today... -
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution by John Gribbin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Erwin Schroedinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his thought experiment of a cat in a box, both alive... -
Blind Evolution: The Nature of Humanity and the Origin of Life by David Frost 9780227177112
Booksplease Price: £27.60In Blind Evolution?: The Nature of Humanity and the Origin of Life, Professor David Frost challenges the dominant worldview derived from Darwin's evolutionary theories and perpetuated in Richard... -
Our Cosmic Ancestry in the Stars: The Panspermia Revolution and the Origins of Humanity by Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D. 9781591433286
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02An exploration of how acceptance of panspermia will soon change history Mainstream consensus is that life arose on Earth spontaneously out of "primordial soup." Yet this theory, as well as the... -
Blind Evolution: The Nature of Humanity and the Origin of Life by David Frost
RRP: £79.50Booksplease Price: £73.35In Blind Evolution?: The Nature of Humanity and the Origin of Life, Professor David Frost challenges the dominant worldview derived from Darwin's evolutionary theories and perpetuated in Richard... -
God's Planet by Owen Gingerich 9780674417106
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £29.85With exoplanets being discovered daily, Earth is still the only planet we know of that is home to creatures who seek a coherent explanation for the structure, origins, and fate of the universe, and... -
A Little Book about the Big Bang by Tony Rothman
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £18.06A 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... -
Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe by Jeremiah P. Ostriker
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.05Heart of Darkness describes the incredible saga of humankind's quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the universe. Over the past thirty years, scientists have learned that two little-understood... -
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe by Roger Penrose
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.05What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic... -
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe by Roger Penrose 9780691119793
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.95What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic... -
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe Roger Penrose 9780691264301
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly... -
Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath by C. V. Vishveshwara 9783642069734
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.01Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath is a humourous and informal rendition of the story of gravitation theory from the early historic origins to the latest developments in... -
A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy by Carol Christian 9781316615263
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.10Are we alone in the Universe? Was there anything before the Big Bang? Are there other universes? What makes stars shine? Where does Earth's water come from? Why is the night sky dark? Was there ever...