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The Hidden Reality The Hidden Reality Brian Greene From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to date—a book that takes on the grandest question: Is ours the only uni… OL15663797W
Cosmos Cosmos Carl Sagan This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. It is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to … OL15829966W
The end of the beginning The end of the beginning Adam Frank "The Big Bang is dead and astrophysicist Adam Frank explains how our experience of time will change as a result"-- "The Big Bang is dead! It is no longer the beginning of time. Allowing us a peek in… OL15936149W
The new universe and the human future The new universe and the human future Nancy Ellen Abrams "After a four-century rupture between science and the questions of value and meaning, this groundbreaking book presents an explosive and potentially life-altering idea: if the world could agree on a … OL15976457W
Welt und Wirkungsprinzip Welt und Wirkungsprinzip Werner Landgraf **Welt und Wirkungsprinzip** Über die Selbstentfaltung, innere -organisation, Abgrenzung, Wechselwirkungen untereinander, und inneren und äußeren Effekte, von mehr oder weniger isolierten Ereig… OL16018628W
De Ontrafeling van de Kosmos De Ontrafeling van de Kosmos Brian Greene Brian Greene begint **De ontrafeling van de Kosmos** met de inzichten van grote natuurkundigen als Newton en Einstein om uit te komen bij de meest recente ideeën op het gebied van de supersnaar- en M… OL16046237W
Knocking on heaven's door Knocking on heaven's door Lisa Randall "From the one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World"-- and bestselling author of Warped Passages--an exhilarating and readable overview of the latest ideas in physics and a rou… OL16342081W
The Universe Within The Universe Within Neil Turok In this personal, visionary, and fascinating work, Neil Turok, Director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, explores the transformative scientific discoveries of the past three centur… OL16797754W
How to make a planet How to make a planet Scott Forbes "As you read these pages, you'll speed through the 13.7 billion years that went into making the incredible, life-sustaining, one-in-a-billion planet we call home. You'll also learn about some of the … OL17904134W
The theory of everything The theory of everything Stephen Hawking A series of lectures by the renowned physicist reviews past ideas from Aristotle to Newton and Einstein's theories of gravity, the Big Bang, and black holes and explores quantum mechanics and the tim… OL1892616W
Where the sky touched the Earth Where the sky touched the Earth Don Lago The Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, the Sedona red rockshave long filled humans with wonder about nature. Nowhere else in the world is the link between earth and sky so powerful. Lago witnesses a sola… OL19729675W
Worlds without end Worlds without end Mary-Jane Rubenstein Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunners and explores the reasons for their recent appearance. One concerns t… OL19986908W
The mind of God The mind of God P. C. W. Davies Complementing his metaphysical exploration of the meaning and origin of life in "God and The New Physics", physicist Paul Davies further investigates theological and scientific explanations for the c… OL24286136W
Die Vermessung des Universums Die Vermessung des Universums Lisa Randall Welchen Fragen gehen Physiker nach? Welche Rolle spielen so gigantische Apparate wie der Teilchenbeschleuniger im CERN? Was hat es mit der Suche nach dem Higgs-Boson auf sich? Wie hängt angewandte mi… OL24990366W
At the edge of the world At the edge of the world Karen Bassie-Sweet "Reconstruction of classic period Maya beliefs about the structure of the universe based on imagery and hieroglyphic texts from lowland cities. Focuses on cosmological meanings of caves in defining t… OL2973916W
An introduction to relativity An introduction to relativity Jayant Vishnu Narlikar "General relativity is now an essential part of undergraduate and graduate courses in physics, astrophysics and applied mathematics. This simple, user-friendly introduction to relativity is ideal for… OL388726W
Mathematical cosmology Mathematical cosmology Peter Theodore Landsberg Cosmology is a subject of much scientific and philosophical interest, but accounts are usually either non-mathematical or fully relativistic. This book seeks to give readers a quantitative understand… OL4476055W
Cosmology, physics, and philosophy Cosmology, physics, and philosophy Benjamin Gal-Or Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy Table of Contents (The last two Volumes published FREE online) VOLUME I [Out of print. May only be purchased online as hardcover used book] Worldwide A… OL4786406W
Between inner space and outer space Between inner space and outer space John D. Barrow The origins of life on earth, the workings of the human mind, the mysteries of the Universe itself--profound questions such as these were once the province of philosophy and theology alone. Today the… OL865334W
Frame of the universe Frame of the universe Frank Durham The authors follow the history of cosmological ideas from ancient to modern times at a level suitable for non-specialist college courses and general reading. OL9162938W
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