This informaive book seeks to comprehend the enormities of cosmic space and time and how this understanding has shaped religion, politics, and philosophy.
This is an accessible, non-mathematical guide to all the central issues of cosmology, taking the reader through recent breakthroughs, hypotheses and arguments: the inflationary universe immediately subsequent to the Big Bang; quantum cosmology and Hartle and Hawking's wave-function of the universe; the discovery and significance of large-scale ...
America's finest science writer describes a major revolution sweeping astronomy, as amateur astronomers, in global networks linked by the Internet, make discoveries that are changing knowledge of the universe. The appendix includes star charts, observing lists, and a guide on how to get involved with the stars.
The writings of more than 60 authors including Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Pierre Curie, Primo Levi and James Gleick, are represented in this volume. Each expresses a perspective on the Sciences.
For centuries, it was assumed that our universe was static. In the late 1920s, astronomers defeated this assumption with a startling new discovery. From Earth, the light of distant galaxies appeared to be red, meaning that those galaxies were receding from us. This led to the revolutionary realization that the universe is expanding. The Red Limit ...
This volume reports on where the science of black holes, gravitational waves, and time travel will likely lead, as reported by spacetime's most important theoreticians and observers. Here are six essays by those who walk that line, moving ever further out in discovering the patterns of nature.
The author of the bestselling Coming of Age in the Milky Way turns his talents to demystifying such topics as the "Big Bang", time travel, and virtual reality, along with other aspects of the "new science". Whimsical drawings by leading British illustrator Ingram Pinn accompany the book's 60 essays.
The bestselling author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way brilliantly synthesizes inner and outer space, brain-mind science and SETI in this penetrating examination of the universe.
From the bestselling author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way comes a major new popular look at what science knows about two deep mysteries--a wonder-filled odyssey into the realms of mind and universe. The Mind's Sky shows how the mind is part of the universe, and how the universe is partly a construct of the mind itself.
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber---Richard P. Feynman was all these and more. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track--collecting over forty years' worth of Feynman's letters--offers an unprecedented ...
The writings of more than 60 authors including Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Pierre Curie, Primo Levi and James Gleick, are represented in this volume. Each expresses a perspective on the Sciences.
"Scientific American" compiles over 30 articles culled from the magazine, written by some of the biggest names presently working in the field. Included are Leonard Susskind, Kenneth R. Lang and David H. Levy. Divided into categories including "The Universe", "Galaxies", and "Planets", these articles present cutting-edge technology as well as the ...
Timothy Ferris has assembled a representative collection of the best scientific writing to appear in American periodicals during 2001. Contributors include Stephen Jay Gould, Natalie Angier, and John Archibald Wheeler.
The science gift book of the year, a stunning blend of words and images that shows once again why Timothy Ferris has been called today's greatest science writer. Twenty years ago, Timothy Ferris enjoyed his first enormous success with his now-classic picture book, Galaxies. Since then, he has published other bestsellers, produced award-wining ...
An exploration of how amateur stargazers have contributed to the science of astronomy. The book also includes star charts and tips for those interested in studying the night sky. A New York Times "Editor's Choice" for 2002.
Timothy Ferris has assembled a representative collection of the best scientific writing to appear in American periodicals during 2001. Contributors include Stephen Jay Gould, Natalie Angier, and John Archibald Wheeler.
This series of compelling night images of the land and skies of Israel offers the viewer mystical points of entry and departure. The world depicted in "Celestial Nights" is composed of a delicately constructed order in which earth and the heavens mirror each other. Folberg's photographs describe places where the spiritual is at once near, ...
This new collection of compelling night photography contrasts the arid landscape of Israel and the Sinai Desert against the awesome and eternal spectacle of the night sky.
"World History of Warfare" is designed as a textbook for introductory college courses in military history. The text covers worldwide military history from ancient times to the present. Its principal theme is an exploration of change and continuity, revolution and tradition, in three thousand years of warfare. The work teaches students and general ...
From our viewing platform on Earth, the night sky changes throughout the year. Autumn and spring are best for observing galaxies, winter is ideal for sighting nebulae and star clusters, and summer is the season of the Milky Way. "A Year in the Life of the Universe" takes us on an intimate seasonal tour of these ever-changing heavens. Stellar ...
A large-format collection of astronomical photographs. Fifty of David Malin's images of distant stars and galaxies are accompanied by explanatory text in this volume.
This is a layman's guide to modern science which combines the off-beat humour of Ingram Pinn's illustrations with text by Timothy Ferris, whose other books include "Coming of Age in the Milky Way" and "The Mind's Sky". The subject matter ranges from chemistry to cosmology and from marine biology to scientific morals, and delves into matters which ...
This enlightening, engaging look at the universe, the scientists who explore it, and the far-reaching implications of recent discoveries presents an "enjoyable and useful book, a heroic synthesis of cosmic knowledge today" ("The Wall Street Journal").
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