Cosmology
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The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
$22.99 Add to cartIn his first book ever, the father of string theory reinvents the world’s concept of the known universe and man’s unique place within it. Line drawings.
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- Author: Susskind, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0316013331
- Language: English
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Galaxies: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn this fascinating Very Short Introduction, popular science writer John Gribben tells the story of our growing understanding of galaxies, from the days before Galileo to our present-day observations … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gribbin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0199234345
- Language: English
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Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
$17.95 Read moreFrom the host and cocreator of PBS’s Journey of the Universe, a fresh look at how the rich collision between science and spirituality has influenced contemporary consciousness
The understanding that t- Author: Swimme, Brian Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1640096175
- Language: English
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The Cosmic Hologram: In-Formation at the Center of Creation
$16.95 Read moreHow holographic patterns of information underlie our physical reality
– 2017 Nautilus Silver Award – Includes myriad evidence from a wide range of cutting-edge scientific discoveries showing our Unive- Author: Currivan, Jude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 25 2017
- ISBN10: 162055660X
- Language: English
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The Story of Gaia: The Big Breath and the Evolutionary Journey of Our Conscious Planet
$19.99 Read moreExplores how the Universe, our planet, ourselves, and everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose
– 2023 Nautilus Gold Award – Examines our emergence as self-aware members of- Author: Currivan, Jude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 164411531X
- Language: English
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Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness
$16.95 Add to cartThree of the most original thinkers of our time explore issues that call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life.
– A wide-ranging investigation of the ecology of- Author: Sheldrake, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0892819774
- Language: English
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Timaeus and Critias
$14.00 Add to cartTimaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story descri… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0140455043
- Language: English
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There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World
$26.00 Add to cartA delightful intellectual feast from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and Anaximander
One of the world’s most prominent physicists and fearless free spirit- Author: Rovelli, Carlo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 059319215X
- Language: English
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Startalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know about Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond
$19.99 Add to cartThis illustrated companion to the popular podcast and National Geographic Channel show is an eye-opening journey for anyone curious about our universe, space, astronomy and the complexities of the cos… [more below]
- Author: Tyson, Neil Degrasse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1426220235
- Language: English
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
$19.99 Add to cartBestselling 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… [more below]
- Author: Krauss, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1451624468
- Language: English
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
$17.95 Add to cartTackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something… [more below]
- Author: Holt, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0871403595
- Language: English
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Simulating the Cosmos: Why the Universe Looks the Way It Does
$22.50 Read moreA behind-the-scenes look at the latest tool in astrophysics: computer simulations of the cosmos.
Simulating the Cosmos is a behind-the-scenes look at one of the hottest and fastest-moving areas of ast- Series: Universe
- Author: Dav?, Romeel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 178914714X
- Language: English
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100 Stars That Explain the Universe
$17.95 Add to cartOur own Sun–a source of awe, myth, and mystery for untold generations of sky-gazers–is just one of roughly two hundred billion trillion stars. Together, they’re a window into the profoundest questio… [more below]
- Author: Freistetter, Florian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1891011111
- Language: English
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Timaeus and Critias
$12.95 Add to cart‘The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.’
Timaeus, one of Plato’s acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its conten- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0192807358
- Language: English
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It Started with a Big Bang: The Origin of Earth, You and Everything Else
$18.99 Add to cartIn this accessible informational picture book, young readers can follow the fascinating story of how we got from the very beginning of the universe to life today on the “bright blue ball floating in s… [more below]
- Author: Bal, Floor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1525302558
- Language: English
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
$30.00 Add to cartNow with a new preface (not in any other edition) that will review the enormous public reception of the relatively obscure string theory–made possible by this book and an increased number of adherent… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0393058581
- Language: English
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The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity: A Journey to Discover Black Holes
$24.95 Add to cartThe mystery of gravity has captivated us for centuries. But what is gravity and how does it work? This engaging book delves into the bizarre and often counter-intuitive world of gravitational physics…. [more below]
- Author: Rezzolla, Luciano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: March 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1009198750
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Cosmology
$21.95 Add to cartThe cutting-edge science that is taking the measure of the universe
The Little Book of Cosmology provides a breathtaking look at our universe on the grandest scales imaginable. Written by one of the w- Author: Page, Lyman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0691195781
- Language: English
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Constellations: The Story of Space Told Through the 88 Known Star Patterns in the Night Sky
$32.00 Add to cartPerfect for stargazers and armchair astronomers of all ages, CONSTELLATIONS is a beautifully illustrated, fascinatingguide to all 88 constellations, including an illustrated star map for each.
In CONST… [more below]- Author: Schilling, Govert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0316483885
- Language: English
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The Order of Time
$24.00 Add to cartOne of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade
“Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book.” —The Sunday Times
From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons … [more below]- Author: Rovelli, Carlo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 073521610X
- Language: English
