A landmark in popular science publishing, Cosmos is a giant-format account of the ultimate journey - a 13.7-billion-light-year- (or 130-billion-trillion kilometre-) voyage from our world, past planets
In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states—the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empir
The companion to the popular PBS series. For everyone who bought A Brief History of Time (9 million so far) but had trouble understanding it, this is a simple, easily accessible explanation of the sa
The Universe is the ultimate in extremes and superlatives. The biggest. The heaviest. The oldest. The most powerful explosions. Even black holes - which can literally lead to regionsbeyond our infinit
In this truly mind-blowing book, we use cutting edge infographics to illuminate – in a new and unique way – the most amazing places and objects that modern science has laid bare.
This volume covers a broad spectrum of theoretical and mathematical physics by researchers from over 20 nations from four continents. Like Vigier himself, the Vigier symposia are noted for addressing
Materialism asserts that the universe and everything within it, including ourselves, is a deterministic machine, trapped until the end of time on the rigid tracks of inviolable laws. Only the mechanis
A modern Thoreau explores the mysteries of the universe in this deluxe collector's boxed set.To read Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) is to renew a sense of wonder at the miracles and paradoxes of evolution
This calendar is based on COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey, a 13-part series on Fox Television and the National Geographic Channel and hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.In this version
Banks (French, Durham University UK) explores the ways in which late sixteenth-century French poetry illuminates the changing concepts of the interrelation among humans, the divine and the cosmos. Whi
Radio telescopes have transformed our understanding of the Universe. Pulsars, quasars, Big Bang cosmology: all are discoveries of the new science of radio astronomy. Here, Francis Graham-Smith descri
