At the dawn of the seventeenth century everyone believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yet some men knew that the heavens did not move as they should. And some men began to suspect that this heresy was in fact the truth. As Europe convulsed in conflict between Catholic and Protestant, these men prepared to die for that truth. This is the story of Kepler and Galileo, two men whose struggle with themselves, with the evidence and with the forces of reaction changed not simply themse...

From stone age to space age, every human who has looked up at the night sky has seen the same stars in the same patterns. They reveal our entire history, as well as hinting at our ultimate fate.In Beneath the Night, Stuart Clark tells the full story of this relationship. From prehistoric cave art and Ancient Egyptian zodiacs to the modern era of satellites and space exploration, Clark reveals the history of a fascination that has shaped our scientific understanding; helped...

This historical mystery novel is an account of a quest to solve the treacherous poisoning of a famous knight of the Round Table, presented from the unique point-of-view of King Arthur's only legitimate son, Sir Bobart le Cure Hardy (or the Hardy Heart) who is something of an anachronism: An empathetic youth, more a romantic than a Dark Age warrior, who tries to cope with a brutal world, and life among men driven to bully and slaughter one another for recreation and profit.To the tra...

In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph systems crashed, machines burst into flames, and electric shocks rendered operators unconscious. Compasses and other sensitive instruments reeled as if struck by a massive magnetic fist. For the first time, people began to suspect that the Earth was not isolated from the rest of the universe. How...

The true, cutting-edge story of man's epic quest to find an Earth-like planet capable of sustaining complex life.In 1995 two Swiss astronomers discovered a planet circling a star other than our Sun. This changed our perception of the Universe forever, proving that Earth and the other celestial bodies in our Solar System are not alone in outer space.Now, after two decades of exploration, more than 860 planets have been discovered, many of which are completel...

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #3: February 2019Featuring Ideas by: Anne Hilborn, Justin Tosi, Brandon Warmke, Daegan Miller, Samuel Levin, Sam Dresser, Kyle Arnold, Marc Lewis, Shaun Shelly, Omnia El Shakry, Richard Stevens, Skye Cleary, Thony Christie, Nancy Kwak, Jason Stahl, Claire Fuller, Nathan Schneider, and Stuart Clark

On 21 March 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is physically impossible to make a better map: we will never see the early Universe in more detail. On the one hand, such a view is the apotheosis of modern cosmology, on the other, it threatens to undermine almost everything we hold cosmologically sacrosanct.The map contains anomalies that challenge our underst...

From myth to Musk, astrology to astronomy, Dr Stuark Clark selects the very best writing about the Red Planet.From its very first sighting, Mars has been a source of fascination for humanity. Named for the Roman god of war, this red planet has been explored more than any other beyond Earth and continues to occupy a distinctive place in our imagination. It's an environment that may even foster life.In The Book of Mars, Dr Stuart Clark selects one hu...

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Living Up to Your Eulogy is an outstanding collection of uplifting and inspirational stories and quotations that can change your life.Through the book's three sections, Advice to Live By, Acts of Kindness and Lives Well Lived, it motivates you to ask yourself, "Am I living the kind of life I want to live? What kind of legacy will I be leaving?"The book encourages you to reflect on the path of your life and provides heartening examples of ways to live a life that wi...

Europe is marching blindly into the First World War and Berlin is in a storm of nationalist marches and army recruitment. Albert Einstein anticipates the carnage to come when his university colleagues begin work on poison gas to 'shorten the war'. He is also struggling with the collapse of his marriage in the wake of an illicit affair. Increasingly isolated, Einstein finds his academic work sidelined with few people entertaining his outlandish new way of understanding the universe....

It is the late seventeenth century and still the movement of the planets remains a mystery despite the revolutionary work of Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Tycho Brahe almost a hundred years previously. Edmond Halley - dynamic adventurer and astronomer - seeks the help of Isaac Newton in unravelling the problem, but though obsessed with understanding the orbits of the planets, Newton has problems of his own which could undermine the essential work.The reclusive mathematician ...