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Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universeby Charles SeifeISBN 0670031798 (0-670-03179-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Between the Starsby George ConstableISBN 0809468956 (0-8094-6895-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Between the Starsby Time-Life BooksISBN 0809468964 (0-8094-6896-4)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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Billions and Billions : Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenniumby Carl SaganISBN 0679411607 (0-679-41160-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billions and Billions : Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium'Book summary:* This is a used book in great condiditon! The jacket is missing but there are no other signs of wear. In this book, his last, Carl Sagan shows once again his extraordinary ability to interpret the mysteries of life and the majesty of the universe for the general reader. Brilliant, eloquent, and imbued with Sagan's uniquely childlike sense of awe, this entertaining collection of essays captures the authors spirit at its best.
In Billions and Billions Sagan applies what we know about science, mathematics, and space to everyday life, as well as to the exploration of many essential questions concerning the environment and our future. Ranging far and wide in subject matter, he takes his readers on a soaring journey, from the invention of chess to the possibility of life on Mars, from Monday Night Football to the relationship between the United States and Russia, from global warming to the abortion debate. And, on a more intimate note, we are given a rare glimpse of the author himself as he movingly describes his valiant fight for his life, his love of his family, and his personal beliefs about death and God.
Throughout these essays, Sagan provides clarity and understanding for an audience eager to make sense of the world around it as it prepares for the challenges of the coming millennium, and in the process he illuminates his strongly held belief that we have the ability to change the world and our lives for the better.
Sagan has said, We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. With this book, as in his magnificent career, he makes this world significant indeed. [via]More editions of Billions and Billions : Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium:
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Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essaysby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553374117 (0-553-37411-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays'Book summary:Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal million-copy hardcover best-seller A Brief History of Time. Bantam is proud to present the paperback edition of Dr. Hawking's first new book since that event, a collection of fascinating and illuminating essays, and a remarkable interview broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day, 1992. These fourteen pieces reveal Hawking variously as the scientist, the man, the concerned world citizen, and-always-the rigorous and imaginative thinker. Hawking's wit, directness of style, and absence of pomp characterize all of them, whether he is remembering his first experience at nursery school; calling for adequate education in science that will enable the public to play its part in making informed decisions on matters such as nuclear disarmament; exploring the origins of the future of the universe; or reflecting on the history of A Brief History of Time. Black Holes and Baby Universes is an important work from one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. [via]
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Brief History of Timeby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553380168 (0-553-38016-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brief History of Time'Book summary:Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God." --Therese Littleton [via]
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- Brief History of Time: ISBN 0553109537 (0-553-10953-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Brief History of Time: ISBN 0613074041 (0-613-07404-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Brief History of Time: ISBN 0553052438 (0-553-05243-8)
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- Brief History of Time: ISBN 0553109537 (0-553-10953-7)
Brief History of Timeby Ron Miller, Carl Sagan, Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0816147736 (0-8161-4773-6)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holesby Carl Sagan, Stephen W. Hawking, Ron MillerISBN 055305340X (0-553-05340-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes'Book summary:Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe. Was there a beginning of time? Will there be an end? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? From Galileo and Newton to modern astrophysics, from the breathtakingly cast to the extraordinarily tiny, Professor Hawking leads us on an exhilarating journey to distant galaxies, black holes, alternate dimensions--as close as man has ever ventured to the mind of God. From the vantage point of the wheelchair from which he has spent more than twenty years trapped by Lou Gehrig's disease, Stephen Hawking has transformed our view of the universe. Cogently explained, passionately revealed, A Brief History of Time is the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge: the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space. [via]
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holesby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553346148 (0-553-34614-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Brief History of Time/International Edby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553173251 (0-553-17325-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Catalogue of the Universeby Margaret MahyISBN 0590404504 (0-590-40450-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Comets, Asteroids, and Meteoritesby Time-Life BooksISBN 0809469049 (0-8094-6904-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Cosmic MysteriesISBN 0809469081 (0-8094-6908-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Cosmographical Glass Renaissance Diagrams of the Universeby S.K. HeningerISBN 0873282086 (0-87328-208-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Cosmosby Carl SaganISBN 0345331354 (0-345-33135-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmos'Book summary:Cosmos was the first science TV blockbuster, and Carl Sagan was its (human) star. By the time of Sagan's death in 1997, the series had been seen by half a billion people; Sagan was perhaps the best-known scientist on the planet. Explaining how the series came about, Sagan recalled:
I was positive from my own experience that an enormous global interest exists in the exploration of the planets and in many kindred scientific topics--the origin of life, the Earth, and the Cosmos, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, our connection with the universe. And I was certain that this interest could be excited through that most powerful communications medium, television.
Sagan's own interest and enthusiasm for the universe were so vivid and infectious, his screen presence so engaging, that viewers and readers couldn't help but be caught up in his vision. From stars in their "billions and billions" to the amino acids in the primordial ocean, Sagan communicated a feeling for science as a process of discovery. Inevitably, some of the science in Cosmos has been outdated in the years since 1980--but Sagan's sense of wonder is ageless. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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- Cosmos: ISBN 0394715969 (0-394-71596-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Cosmos: ISBN 0375508325 (0-375-50832-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Cosmos: ISBN 051712355X (0-517-12355-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Cosmos: ISBN 084466698X (0-8446-6698-X)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc - Cosmos: ISBN 8432036269 (84-320-3626-9)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp - Cosmos: ISBN 0345331354 (0-345-33135-4)
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- Cosmos: ISBN 0394715969 (0-394-71596-9)
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The Cosmosby Time LifeISBN 080946862X (0-8094-6862-X)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Returnby Mircea EliadeISBN 0824063600 (0-8240-6360-0)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis
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Cosmos: International Affairs in the Modern Ageby Carl SaganISBN 0394502949 (0-394-50294-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmos: International Affairs in the Modern Age'Book summary:Cosmos was the first science TV blockbuster, and Carl Sagan was its (human) star. By the time of Sagan's death in 1997, the series had been seen by half a billion people; Sagan was perhaps the best-known scientist on the planet. Explaining how the series came about, Sagan recalled:
I was positive from my own experience that an enormous global interest exists in the exploration of the planets and in many kindred scientific topics--the origin of life, the Earth, and the Cosmos, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, our connection with the universe. And I was certain that this interest could be excited through that most powerful communications medium, television.
Sagan's own interest and enthusiasm for the universe were so vivid and infectious, his screen presence so engaging, that viewers and readers couldn't help but be caught up in his vision. From stars in their "billions and billions" to the amino acids in the primordial ocean, Sagan communicated a feeling for science as a process of discovery. Inevitably, some of the science in Cosmos has been outdated in the years since 1980--but Sagan's sense of wonder is ageless. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths To The Big Bangby Marcelo GleiserISBN 158465466X (1-58465-466-X)
Softcover, Dartmouth College
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Einstein's Universeby Nigel CalderISBN 0670290769 (0-670-29076-9)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein's Universe'Book summary:This brilliantly written book unlocks the astounding implications of Einstein's revolutionary theories on the nature of science, time and motion. It far surpasses any previous explanation of Relativity for laymen. [via]
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Realityby Brian GreeneISBN 0375727205 (0-375-72720-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality'Book summary:As a boy, Brian Greene read Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus and was transformed. Camus, in Greene's paraphrase, insisted that the hero triumphs "by relinquishing everything beyond immediate experience." After wrestling with this idea, however, Greene rejected Camus and realized that his true idols were physicists; scientists who struggled "to assess life and to experience the universe at all possible levels, not just those that happened to be accessible to our frail human senses." His driving question in The Fabric of the Cosmos, then, is fundamental: "What is reality?" Over sixteen chapters, he traces the evolving human understanding of the substrate of the universe, from classical physics to ten-dimensional M-Theory.
Assuming an audience of non-specialists, Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. For the most part, he succeeds. His language reflects a deep passion for science and a gift for translating concepts into poetic images. When explaining, for example, the inability to see the higher dimensions inherent in string theory, Greene writes: "We don't see them because of the way we see&like an ant walking along a lily pad&we could be floating within a grand, expansive, higher-dimensional space."
For Greene, Rhodes Scholar and professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, speculative science is not always as thorough and successful. His discussion of teleportation, for example, introduces and then quickly tables a valuable philosophical probing of identity. The paradoxes of time travel, however, are treated with greater depth, and his vision of life in a three-brane universe is compelling and--to use his description for quantum reality--"weird."
In the final pages Greene turns from science fiction back to the fringes of science fact, and he returns with rigor to frame discoveries likely to be made in the coming decades. "We are, most definitely, still wandering in the jungle," he concludes. Thanks to Greene, though, some of the underbrush has been cleared. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Far Planetsby Time-Life BooksISBN 0809468549 (0-8094-6854-9)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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Hardcover, Time-Life Books - The Near Planets: ISBN 0809490668 (0-8094-9066-8)
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Firefly Atlas of the Universeby Patrick Moore, Arnold WolfendaleISBN 1554070716 (1-55407-071-6)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Firefly Atlas of the Universe'Book summary:The new edition of a critically acclaimed bestseller.
"A beautiful, up-to-date oversized volume that is the equivalent of a small astronomy library...a superb visual reference."
- Terence Dickinson, SkyNews"Highly recommended."
- Booklist (of the 2nd Edition)Firefly Atlas of the Universe is the ultimate reference to the stars, planets and celestial objects using the most comprehensive information currently available.
The book features the latest images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Telescope, Mars Express, the Cassini spacecraft and 2004 Huygens probe of Saturn and Titan. The stunning images are explained with clear and detailed text.
The full color book illustrates and explains:
- Exploring the Universe: the history and current state of astronomy and space exploration
- The Solar System: Earth and other planets, mapped and imaged with data from the most recent mission probes
- The Sun: astrophysical phenomena from sunspots to eclipses
- The Stars: movements and life cycles, novae and supernovae, black holes, and more
- The Universe: the origin and nature of the universe, our galaxy, local and remote galaxies, quasars, and the question of alien life
- Star Maps: whole sky maps with 22 alphabetized chapter listings of stars and constellations, and seasonal charts for both northern and southern hemispheres.
Firefly Atlas of the Universe is a fascinating and encyclopedic reference illustrated with spectacular color photographs and illustrations.
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The Friendly Guide to the Universeby Nancy HathawayISBN 0670839442 (0-670-83944-2)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Galaxiesby Diane UlliusISBN 0809468506 (0-8094-6850-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time Ythby Giorgio De Santillana, Hertha Von DechendISBN 0879232153 (0-87923-215-3)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time Yth'Book summary:Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology and science have developed separately. But what came before the Greeks? What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived, and what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data? Drawing on scientific data, historical and literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose power and accuracy were suppressed and then forgotten by an emergent Greco-Roman world view. This fascinating book throws into doubt the self-congratulatory assumptions of Western science about the unfolding development and transmission of knowledge. This is a truly seminal and original thesis, a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth, and the interactions between the two. [via]
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Hubble: The Mirror on the Universeby Robin KerrodISBN 1552977811 (1-55297-781-1)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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The Illustrated a Brief History of Timeby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553103741 (0-553-10374-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated a Brief History of Time'Book summary:In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has established itself as a landmark volume in scientific
writing. It has also become an international publishing phenomenon, translated into forty languages and selling over nine million copies.The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe, but since then there have been extraordinary advances in the
technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions
in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed the wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected.Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these many observations, as well as his most recent research, for this revised and expanded edition Hawking has prepared a new introduction to the book, revised and updated the original chapters throughout, and written an entirely new chapter on the fascinating subject of wormholes and time travel.
In addition, to heighten understanding of complex concepts that readers may have found difficult to grasp despite the clarity and wit of Hawking's writing, this edition is magnificently enhanced throughout with more than 240 full-color illustrations, including satellite images, photographs made possible by spectacular new technological advances such as the Hubble telescope, and computer- generated images of three- and four-dimensional realities. Detailed captions clarify these illustrations, enabling readers to experience the vastness of intergalactic space, the nature of black holes, and the microcosmic world of
particle physics in which matter and antimatter collide.A classic work that now brings to the reader the latest understanding of cosmology, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time is the story of the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space. [via]
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The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophyby Ernst CassirerISBN 0812210360 (0-8122-1036-0)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Life Searchby Time LifeISBN 0809468662 (0-8094-6866-2)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Metaccreation of Personal Realities in Space and Time: Breakthrough Technology on How the Brain and Mind Create Realities for a Prosperous and Meaningful Lifeby Victor J. GibbonsISBN 0966942809 (0-9669428-0-9)
Softcover, Meta Creation Inst Inc
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Moons and Ringsby Time-Life BooksISBN 080948451X (0-8094-8451-X)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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Myth of the Eternal Returnby M. EliadeISBN 0691097984 (0-691-09798-4)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Myth Of The Eternal Return: Cosmos And Historyby Mircea Eliade, Jonathan Z. Smith, Willard R. TraskISBN 0691123500 (0-691-12350-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Myth Of The Eternal Return: Cosmos And History'Book summary:This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen European languages, Eliade's The Myth of the Eternal Return makes both intelligible and compelling the religious expressions and activities of a wide variety of archaic and "primitive" religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to the "archaic" is no longer possible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding this view in order to enrich our contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. Jonathan Z. Smith's new introduction provides the contextual background to the book and presents a critical outline of Eliade's argument in a way that encourages readers to engage in an informed conversation with this classic text. [via]
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National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universeby Roy A. Gallant, Margaret SedeenISBN 0870443577 (0-87044-357-7)
Hardcover, Natl Geographic Society
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› Find signed collectible books: 'National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe'Book summary:A lavishly illustrated guide to the universe combines the efforts of an award-winning author and NASA experts, offering a timeline of important space events, an easy-to-use glossary, and a planetarium, observatory, and museums listing. 10,000 first printing. [via]
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Hardcover, National Geographic Society - National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe: ISBN 0870446444 (0-87044-644-4)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society - National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe: ISBN 0870446452 (0-87044-645-2)
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The Near Planetsby Time LifeISBN 0809468700 (0-8094-6870-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Origins of Existence : How Life Emerged in the Universeby Fred AdamsISBN 0743212622 (0-7432-1262-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Other Worldsby P. C. W. DaviesISBN 0671422324 (0-671-42232-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Other Worlds'Book summary:When physicists began exploring the inner workings of the atom, they uncovered a world so weird that it overturned our very concept of reality. When you journey into the quantum universe you enter a world ruled by chance. Commonsense notions of space, time and causality must be left behind as the realm of solid matter dissolves away into vibrating patterns of ghostly energy; even spacetime itself is revealed as an ephemeral froth of wormholes and tunnels. Most revolutionary of all is the way in which quantum physics interweaves mind and matter in a subtle and holistic manner. It is here that scientists make the most startling claim of all: that there exist myriads of alternative realities in parallel to our own. Are these "other worlds" just mathematical artefacts, or do they really exist? [via]
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Other Worlds: A Portrait of Nature in Rebellion, Space, Superspace, and the Quantum Universeby P. C. W. DaviesISBN 0671422278 (0-671-42227-8)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Our Cosmic Habitatby Martin J. ReesISBN 0691114773 (0-691-11477-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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OutboundISBN 0809468751 (0-8094-6875-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Outboundby Time-Life BooksISBN 080946876X (0-8094-6876-X)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Spaceby Carl SaganISBN 0679764860 (0-679-76486-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, And the Future of the Cosmosby Michio KakuISBN 1400033721 (1-4000-3372-1)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Timeby Heinz R. PagelsISBN 0671465481 (0-671-46548-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmosby Seth LloydISBN 1400033861 (1-4000-3386-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos'Book summary:Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer? According to Seth LloydProfessor of Quantum-Mechanical Engineering at MIT and originator of the first technologically feasible design for a working quantum computerthe answer is yes. This wonderfully accessible book illuminates the professional and personal paths that led him to this remarkable conclusion.
All interactions between particles in the universe, Lloyd explains, convey not only energy but also informationin other words, particles not only collide, they compute. And what is the entire universe computing, ultimately? Its own dynamical evolution, he says. As the computation proceeds, reality unfolds.
To elucidate his theory, Lloyd examines the history of the cosmos, posing questions that in other hands might seem unfathomably complex: How much information is there in the universe? What information existed at the moment of the Big Bang and what happened to it? How do quantum mechanics and chaos theory interact to create our world? Could we attempt to re-create it on a giant quantum computer?
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A Short History of Nearly Everythingby Bill BrysonISBN 1417665483 (1-4176-6548-3)
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In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the worlds most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.
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SpacefarersISBN 0809468913 (0-8094-6891-3)
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Starboundby Time-Life BooksISBN 0809469421 (0-8094-6942-1)
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Starsby Mark R. Chartrand, Herbert Spencer and Zim, Robert Horace BakerISBN 1582381577 (1-58238-157-7)
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Starsby Time LifeISBN 0809468581 (0-8094-6858-1)
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Stephen Hawking's Universeby John BosloughISBN 0688062709 (0-688-06270-9)
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SunISBN 0809468875 (0-8094-6887-5)
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The Third PlanetISBN 0809468794 (0-8094-6879-4)
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The Third Planetby Time-Life BooksISBN 0809468808 (0-8094-6880-8)
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Brevisima Historia Del Tiempo/a Brief History of Timeby Stephen Hawking, Leonard MlodinowISBN 8484326373 (84-8432-637-3)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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El Cerebro De Brocaby Carl SaganISBN 8474239796 (84-7423-979-6)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Historia Del Tiempoby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 8420639710 (84-206-3971-0)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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Historia del tiempo / A Brief History of Time: del big bang a los agujeros negros / From Big Bangs to the Black Holesby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 9879317114 (987-9317-11-4)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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Una Breve Historia De Casi Todo/a Short History of Nearly Everythingby Bryson BillISBN 8478713808 (84-7871-380-8)
Softcover, Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas
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