Astronomy category: 2403 books
Sun in a Bottle
The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
With his knack for translating science into understandable, anecdotal prose and his trademark dry humor, award-winning science writer Charles Seife presents the first narrative account of the history of fusion for general readers in more than a decade. Tracing the story from its beginning into the...
Black Hole
How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
"For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes—not even light—seemed to confound all logic. This engrossing book tells the story of the...
Where the Universe Came From
How Einsteins relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
How did it all begin? Where is it all going?
WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS
A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. He overturned...
The Red Limit
The Search for the Edge of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
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...
Heart of Darkness
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Heart 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 components--dark matter and dark energy--comprise most of the known cosmos, explain the growth of all...
by Marina Lighthouse
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Chinese Astrology Predictions and Feng Shui for 2013 is a fresh, new, easy to understand approach to chart your course through the Year of the Water Snake. Whether you are just getting acquainted or you have studied for many years you will find here an informative analysis of how the year will impact...
by Galileo Galilei, Albert Van Helden, Albert Van Helden
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, “unheard of through the ages,” revealed by a mysterious new instrument. Galileo had ingeniously improved the rudimentary “spyglasses”...
The Hole in the Universe
How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
“A compelling, enjoyable, and widely accessible exploration of one of the most fundamental scientific issues of our age” (Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe).
In The Hole in the Universe, an award-winning science writer “provides an illuminating slant on physics and mathematics...
by Andrew May
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Aliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity … are we talking about science fiction or pseudoscience? Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference.
Both pseudoscience and science fiction (SF) are creative endeavours that have little in common with academic science, beyond...
by Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
**“Cox brings a magical enchantment to this life-changing book. . . . I swear that you will never be the same again after you turn the last page of this unique and irresistible book.” —**Sunday Express (London)
Experience the cosmos as never before with Brian Cox’s Wonders of the...
by Jeannie Meekins
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Our sun is an average star in our galaxy. It is a sphere of burning gas that provides light and heat. It makes our plants grow and allows them to turn carbon dioxide into breathable oxygen.
If our sun were to shine a little less or a little more brightly, life as we knew it would not exist. A drop...
by Toby Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This treatise offers an alternative paradigm to the 'Big Bang' theory of the origin of the universe. It takes a fresh look at current cosmological knowledge, suggests the existence of and defines a Megamassive Black Hole. The existence of such bodies allows a rational argument for a steady state universe....
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Universe and Solar System Series: The Life Cycle of Stars Having trouble on Physics? Need to find out information about the life cycles of stars and what causes their birth and death? This is an excellent book if you need, or want; to learn about the complete life cycle of stars including their characteristics...
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Universe and Solar System Series: Theories of the Universe
Having trouble on Physics? Need to find out information about the Big Bang theories, and how the Universe came to existence?. This is an excellent book if you need, or want; to learn about the Big Bang Theory, String Theory, Inflation...