Cosmology category: 730 books
The Cosmic Landscape
String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
In his first book ever, the father of string theory reinvents the world's concept of the known universe and man's unique place within it. Line drawings.
A Universe from Nothing
Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place.
“Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than...
A Briefer History of Time
The Science Classic Made More Accessible
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS
The science classic made more accessible
• More concise • Illustrated
FROM ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS OF OUR TIME COMES A BOOK THAT CLARIFIES HIS MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS
Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time...
by Carl Sagan
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Cosmos...
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
The New York Times bestseller: “You gotta read this. It is the most exciting book about Pluto you will ever read in your life.”—Jon Stewart
When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed...
Darwin's Doubt
The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,”...
by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
What are these graceful visitors to our skies? We now know that they bring both life and death and teach us about our origins.
Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan...
by Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller ‘Engaging, ambitious and creative’ Guardian Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future? Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe...
Atom
An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001
The story of matter and the history of the cosmos from the perspective of a single oxygen atom, told with the insight and wit of one of the most dynamic physicists and writers working today. Through this astonishing work, he manages to stoke wonder at the powers and unlikely events that conspired to create our solar system, our ecosystem, and us.
Broca's Brain
Reflections on the Romance of Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
A fascinating book on the joys of discovering how the world works, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cosmos and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
“Magnificent . . . Delightful . . . A masterpiece. A message of tremendous hope for humanity . . . While ever conscious that human folly...
by Lawrence M. Krauss
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
From award-winning physicist, public intellectual, and the bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing Lawrence Krauss, comes “a masterful blend of history, modern physics, and cosmic perspective that empowers the reader to not only embrace our understanding of the universe, but also revel in...
Big History
From the Big Bang to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
“This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shaped—and how they in turn shaped the world we know today.” —Publishers Weekly
This book offers “world history on a grand scale”—pulling back for a wider view and putting the relatively...
The Story of Earth
The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres....
by Matthias Matting
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
May I introduce: the universe. Born 13.75 billion years ago. Constantly growing. Nearly empty. Electrically neutral. Poor in antimatter. Populated by 100 billion galaxies, including 130 sextillion stars with approximately just as many planets. Consisting of only 4 percent...