Cosmology category: 730 books
First Light
The Search for the Edge of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Seven years before Richard Preston wrote about horrifying viruses in The Hot Zone, he turned his attention to the cosmos. In First Light, he demonstrates his gift for creating an exciting and absorbing narrative around a complex scientific subject--in this case the efforts by astronomers at the Palomar...
You Are the Universe
Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Now a New York Times Bestseller! "A riveting and absolutely fascinating adventure that will blow your mind wide open!" —Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi
Deepak Chopra joins forces with leading physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions about our...
Dreams of a Final Theory
The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and bestselling author of The First Three Minutes describes the grand quest for a unifying theory of nature--one that can explain forces as different as the cohesion inside the atom and the gravitational tug between the sun and Earth. Wirting with dazzling elegance...
Voyager
Exploration, Space, and the Third Great Age of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
A brilliant new account of the Voyager space program-its history, scientific impact, and cultural legacy
Launched in 1977, the two unmanned Voyager spacecraft have completed their Grand Tour to the four outer planets, and they are now on course to become the first man-made objects to exit our...
The Big Picture
On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The instant New York Times bestseller about humanity's place in the universe—and how we understand it.
“Vivid...impressive....Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times
“Succeeds spectacularly.”—Science
“A tour de force.”—Salon
Already internationally acclaimed for...
by D. R. Prescott
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Is there time to avoid humanity’s extinction? Practically everything that has ever lived is extinct; we will be no exception unless we work very hard to be an exception. Wrestling with that problem led to a chilling, undeniable conclusion: the human species is ultimately doomed on Earth and we have...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
The 2011 report by the ASAP safety advisory panel to NASA, released in January 2012, presents findings on the space station, shuttle program completion, noteworthy launches, Soyuz return to earth, commercial crew, Space Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), how safe is safe enough,...
Positively Happy
Cosmic Ways To Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
'Throughout the many ups and downs, the successes and the failures in my life, there has been a consistent and all-embracing belief that a positive attitude produces results.'
Acknowledged both as one of the most famous faces on British television and an astute businessman, Noel Edmonds knows...
Programming the Universe
A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2006
Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer? According to Seth Lloyd, the answer is yes. All interactions between particles in the universe, Lloyd explains, convey not only energy but also information–in other words, particles not only collide, they compute. What is the entire universe computing,...
by A. D. Thibeault
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A full executive summary of A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence Krauss. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where necessary, and cutting...
The Cosmic Cocktail
Three Parts Dark Matter
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe—from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars—constitute only 5 percent of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The rest is known as dark matter and dark energy, because their precise identities are unknown. The Cosmic Cocktail...
Cosmic Numbers
The Numbers That Define Our Universe
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Our fascination with numbers begins when we are children and continues throughout our lives. We start counting our fingers and toes and end up balancing checkbooks and calculating risk. So powerful is the appeal of numbers that many people ascribe to them a mystical significance. Other numbers go...
Is God Unnecessary?
Why Stephen Hawking Is Wrong According to the Laws of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
When Stephen Hawking, the most famous scientist living in the twenty-first century, published The Grand Design, he provoked a lively response in the media. Hawking wrote that the laws of physics make God unnecessary when explaining the origin of the universe and everything in it.
In Is God...
by Robert Piccioni
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This book continues our exploration of stars. Here we discuss the spectacular ways in which stars die, creating supernovae that are some of the most violent events in our universe. We also explore the exotic remnants of these explosions: white dwarfs, neutron stars, and particularly, black holes....