Neil: 3512 books
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2017
¿Qué son los agujeros negros? ¿Y los quarks? ¿Tienen sentido las expediciones en busca de vida extraterrestre? Todos nos hemos hecho preguntas como estas, pero lo cierto es que hoy en día pocos tenemos tiempo para contemplar el cosmos e intentar disipar nuestras dudas. Neil deGrasse Tyson nos...
by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
A thought-provoking and humorous collection on NASA and the future of space travel.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rare breed of astrophysicist, one who can speak as easily and brilliantly with popular audiences as with professional scientists. Now that NASA has put human space flight effectively...
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...
The Universe Within
The Deep History of the Human Body
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
From one of our finest and most popular science writers, the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery story as big as the world itself: How have astronomical events that took place millions of years ago created the unique qualities of the human species?
In...
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
**Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold.
The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.**
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s...
Endless Universe
Beyond the Big Bang
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
**Two world-renowned scientists present an audacious new vision of the cosmos that “steals the thunder from the Big Bang theory.” —**Wall Street Journal
The Big Bang theory—widely regarded as the leading explanation for the origin of the universe—posits that space and time sprang...
by Albert Einstein, Neil Berger
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The Authorized Albert Einstein Archives Edition: An homage to the men and women of science, and an exposition of Einstein’s place in scientific history.
In this fascinating collection of articles and speeches, Albert Einstein reflects not only on the scientific method at work in his own theoretical...
Robot Sex
Social and Ethical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships.
Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratification...
Merlin's Tour of the Universe
A Skywatcher's Guide to Everything from Mars and Quasars to Comets, Planets, Blue Moons, and Werewolves
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry comes a fascinating guide to the most popular questions about the universe.
In Neil de Grasse Tyson's delightful tour of the galaxies, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular astronomy questions asked...
The Masked Rider
Cycling in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Dysentery, drunken soldiers, and corrupt officials provide the background for Neil Peart's physical and spiritual cycling journey through West Africa. The prolific drummer for the rock band Rush travels through African villages, both large and small, and relates his story through photographs, journal...
by Alec Baldwin, Bruce Beresford, Sandra Bernhard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*
Since the ancient Greeks, actor's have been society's storytellers. And ever since Hollywood first left the backlot, these storytellers have been traveling to far-flung corners of the world to tell those tales. We decided to ask some...
Hot Mama
Frat House Spring Break, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Things heat up when the whole frat is crammed during one beach house during a hurricane. When Ron's roommate Charlie brings in a lost mother of two, soaked to the skin, Ron knows there will be trouble. Charlie really wants to seduce this hot mama, but she's interested in both him and Ron. Two manly frat...
The Elvish Prophecy
A sword and sorcery Epic fantasy Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
850 years ago the once mighty Western Elves were fatally weakened by the sacking of Elvish Troia and then almost totally destroyed by a cataclysmic invasion of barbarian hordes that came soon after. They now remain only in scattered settlements in the Black Sea region of Anatole (Greek Turkey).
The...
Good Omens
The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, soon to be an original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.
“Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated....