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Cosmology eBooks

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  • The Holographic Universe

    by Austin P. Torney ...
    Free. Is it one? Color Illustrated. Also see it on YouTube. ... Read more

    Free

  • Dark Energy 101

    All you need to know about the mysterious force that is causing the universe to expand at a shockingly rapid rate

    by Amirali Banani ...
    The universe is full of imperceptible natural wonders that can't be explained with only a few physical formulas or laws, and dark energy is no exception. This book provides an insight into this powerful, invisible force that is forcing the cosmos to expand at an ever increasing rate — including its discovery, what we know about it, its influence on the universe, the theoretical particles it may be ... Read more

    Free

  • Cosmos

    by Carl Sagan ...
    Renowned astronomer Carl Sagan’s classic bestseller that “dives into the past, present, and future of science, dealing with the mind-staggering enormity of the cosmos in which we exist” (Associated Press)—with an Introduction by Ann Druyan and a Foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson“Sagan dazzles the mind with the miracle of our survival, framed by the stately galaxies of space.”—CosmopolitanTHE ... Read more

    8,26 €

  • Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You

    A Guide to the Universe

    by Marcus Chown ...
    The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general theory of relativity. Together, they explain virtually everything about the world we live in. But, almost a century after their advent, most people haven't the slightest clue what either is about.Did you know that there's so much empty space inside matter that the entire human race could be squeezed into the ... Read more

    9,95 €

  • A Brief History Of Time

    From Big Bang To Black Holes

    by Stephen Hawking ...
    The ultimate must-have science book. A multimillion copy bestseller. A popular book about the nature of the universe, written for the general reader by one of the world's greatest ever thinkers.A Brief History of Time poses questions such as:Was there a beginning of time?Could time run backwards?Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries?This internationally acclaimed... ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • L'ultimo orizzonte

    Cosa sappiamo dell'universo

    by Amedeo Balbi ...
    *** Vincitore del Premio Asimov 2021 ***Dalla materia oscura all'espansione dell'universo, un viaggio ai confini della conoscenza in compagnia di uno dei maggiori divulgatori scientifici italiani.Cosa sappiamo dell'universo? Molto, moltissimo: la sua età, la sua struttura, cosa contiene e come ha fatto a evolvere in uno spazio disseminato di galassie, stelle, pianeti. Solo poco più di un secolo fa ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • The Known Unknowns

    The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos

    by Lawrence M. Krauss ...
    Internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling popular science writer Lawrence Krauss explores cosmology's greatest unanswered questions.Three of the most important words in science are 'I don't know'. Not knowing implies a universe of opportunities – the possibility of discovery and surprise. Our understanding of cosmology has advanced immeasurably over the last five hundred years of ... Read more

    8,26 €

  • La teoria del tutto

    by Stephen W. Hawking ...
    Come ha avuto origine il cosmo? Qual è il destino che ci attende? Fino agli anni Venti del secolo scorso queste domande erano competenza della religione o della filosofia, mentre oggi è possibile affrontarle da un punto di vista scientifico. Con il suo inconfondibile stile chiaro e comunicativo, Stephen Hawking ci guida in un viaggio che - a partire dalla cosmologia di Aristotele attraverso le ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • We Need to Talk About Kelvin

    What everyday things tell us about the universe

    by Marcus Chown ...
    Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there is furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Your TV tells you that the universe had a beginning. In fact, your very existence tells you that this may not be the only universe but merely one ... Read more

    9,95 €

  • On the Origin of Time

    The Sunday Times bestselling physics book exploring 'Stephen Hawking’s biggest legacy'

    by Thomas Hertog ...
    'A wonderful book about Stephen Hawking's biggest legacy' Spectator'Truly mind-stretching... Immensely rewarding' The Times'This superbly written book offers insight into an extraordinary individual, the creative process, and the scope and limits of our current understanding of the cosmos' Sir Martin ReesStephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thought... ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • A Universe from Nothing

    Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

    by Lawrence M. Krauss, Richard Dawkins ...
    Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place.“Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?”One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture ... Read more

    17,18 €

  • A Briefer History of Time

    by Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking ...
    Like prior editions of the book - but even more so - A Briefer History of Time will guide non-scientists everywhere in the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space . . .This is Stephen Hawking's somewhat 'briefer' account of his up-to-date and most recent scientific observations and findings. A great companion to his original worldwide bestseller, A Brief History ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • Big Bang

    by Simon Singh ...
    The bestselling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem and The Code Book tells the story of the brilliant minds that deciphered the mysteries of the Big Bang. A fascinating exploration of the ultimate question: how was our universe created?Albert Einstein once said: ‘The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.’ Simon Singh believes geniuses like Einstein are not the ... Read more

    10,91 €

  • La ragnatela cosmica

    La misteriosa architettura dell'universo

    by J. Richard Gott ...
    «La ragnatela cosmica non è solamente una storia ben raccontata sulle frontiere della conoscenza del cosmo. È anche uno stimolo per continuare a esplorarle».Michael Blanton, Nature«Con lo sguardo tipico di chi le cose le conosce dall’interno, Gott ci racconta come gli scienziati siano riusciti a rivelare la struttura macroscopica dell’Universo. Mescolando scienza, succosi aneddoti e storie ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • Astrophysics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James Binney ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Astrophysics is the physics of the stars, and more widely the physics of the Universe. It enables us to understand the structure and evolution of planetary systems, stars, galaxies, interstellar gas, and the cosmos as a whole. In this Very Short Introduction, the leading astrophysicist James Binney shows how the field of astrophysics has expanded rapidly in the past century, with vast quantities ... Read more

    7,27 €

  • Black Holes: The Reith Lectures

    by Stephen Hawking ...
    “It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers.”In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking delivered the BBC Reith Lectures on a subject that fascinated him for decades – black holes.In these flagship lectures the legendary physicist argued that if we could ... Read more

    8,49 €

  • The Disordered Cosmos

    A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

    by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein ...
    From a star astrophysicist and author of the national bestseller The Edge of Space Time**, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos – and a call for a more just, inclusive practice of science.****“A love letter to the wonderous universe we call home, and an urge to think critically about how we explore its depths” –**Smithsonian MagazineIn The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Presc ... Read more

    11,99 €

  • The End of Everything

    (Astrophysically Speaking)

    by Katie Mack ...
    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, NEW SCIENTIST, BBC FOCUS, INDEPENDENT AND WASHINGTON POST'A rollicking tour of the wildest physics. . . Like an animated discussion with your favourite quirky and brilliant professor' Leah Crane, New Scientist'Weird science, explained beautifully' - John ScalziWe know the universe had a beginning. But what happens at the end of ... ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • The Universe in Your Hand

    A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond

    by Christophe Galfard ...
    Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe . . .The Universe in Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey to the surface of our dying sun, shrinks us to the size of an atom and puts us in the deathly grip of distant black holes. Along the way you might come to understand, really understand, the mind-bending science that ... Read more

    13,03 €

  • An Introduction to Astronomy - Take a Journey from Earth to the Moon, from the Sun to the Planets, to the Universe and Beyond

    by Forest Ray Moulton, Ph.D. ...
    An Introduction to Astronomy by F.R. Moulton - The definitive text for learning about the amazing science of Astronomy.The progress of mankind has been marked by a number of great intellectual movements. At one time the ideas of men were expanding with the knowledge which they were obtaining from the voyages of Columbus, Magellan, and the long list of hardy explorers who first visited the remote ... Read more

    2,72 €

  • Finding Our Place in the Universe

    How We Discovered Laniakea#the Milky Way's Home

    by Helene Courtois ...
    Translated by Nikki Kopelman ...
    An astrophysicist recounts how her team of researchers surfed the cosmos to map our local universe—and discovered the Laniakea supercluster, home of the Milky Way.You are here: on Earth, which is part of the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is within the extragalactic supercluster Laniakea. And how can we pinpoint our location so precisely? For 20 years, astrophysicist ... Read more

    14,41 €

  • A Brief History of Earth

    Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

    by Andrew H. Knoll ...
    Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible style” (AP)“A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED reviewHow well do you know the ground beneath your feet?Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, ... Read more

    9,32 €

  • Stephen Hawking

    A Life Well Lived

    by Kitty Ferguson ...
    In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given two years to live. Defying all the odds, he died in March 2018 at age seventy-six as the most celebrated scientist in the world. This carefully researched and updated biography and tribute gives a rich picture of Hawking's remarkable life - his childhood, the heart-rending beginning of his struggle with motor neurone disease, his ever-increasing international fame ... Read more

    11,99 €

  • Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

    And Other Cosmic Quandaries

    by Neil deGrasse Tyson ...
    “One of today’s best popularizers of science.”—Kirkus ReviewsLoyal readers of the monthly “Universe” essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson’s talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with stunning clarity and childlike enthusiasm. Here Tyson compiles his favorite essays across a myriad of cosmic topics. The title essay introduces readers to ... Read more

    10,91 €