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    A Portable History of the Universe

    "A personal, brilliant, and often amusing account" of the universe and our place in it, and "an idiosyncratic, encyclopedic blitzkrieg of a book" ( The Boston Globe).Here is the life of the universe, from quarks to galaxy superclusters and from slime to Homo sapiens. The universe was once a moment of perfect symmetry and is now 13.7 billion years of history. Clouds of gas were woven into whatever ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Earth Gazers

    Only twenty-four people have seen the whole earth. The most beautiful and influential photographs ever made were taken, almost as an afterthought, by the astronauts of the Apollo space program from the moon. They inspired a generation of scientists and environmentalists to think more seriously about our responsibility for this tiny oasis in space, this “blue marble” falling through empty darkness ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Earth Gazers

    The most beautiful and influential photographs ever made were of the whole earth seen from space. They were taken from the moon, almost as an afterthought, by the astronauts of the Apollo space programme. They inspired a generation to think more seriously about our responsibility for this tiny oasis in space, the 'blue marble' falling through empty darkness.This is a book about the long road to ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

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  • Time Travel in Einstein's Universe

    The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time

    A Princeton astrophysicist explores whether journeying to the past or future is scientifically possible in this "intriguing" volume (Neil deGrasse Tyson).It was H. G. Wells who coined the term "time machine"—but the concept of time travel, both forward and backward, has always provoked fascination and yearning. It has mostly been dismissed as an impossibility in the world of physics; yet theories ... Read more

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  • Space at the Speed of Light

    The History of 14 Billion Years for People Short on Time

    From the big bang to black holes, this fast-paced illustrated tour of time and space for the astro-curious unlocks the science of the stars to reveal fascinating theories, surprising discoveries, and ongoing mysteries in modern astronomy and astrophysics.Before the big bang, time, space, and matter didn't exist. In the 14 billion years since, scientists have pointed their telescopes upward, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • When Einstein Walked with Gödel

    Excursions to the Edge of Thought

    by Jim Holt ...
    From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought.**Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Churchill

    Wanted Dead or Alive

    by Celia Sandys ...
    The Extraordinary Story of a Young Winston Churchill in the Boer War, as Told by His GranddaughterIn this lively biography of a dashing, brash twenty-five-year-old Churchill, Celia Sandys chronicles her celebrated grandfather’s adventures as a correspondent and combatant during nine months of the Anglo-Boer War—events that took him from the bivouacs and battle sites of Transvaal to his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less)

    Series series More or Less
    Covering 13.8 billion years in some 100 pages, a concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the Big Bang to the advent of human civilization.With wonder, wit, and flair—and in record time and space—geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, to the origin of life ... Read more

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  • Democracy's Beginning

    The Athenian Story

    A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later.The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and remarkable story of how ... Read more

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  • The Hole in the Universe

    How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything

    by K. C. Cole ...
    "A compelling, enjoyable, and widely accessible exploration of one of the most fundamental scientific issues of our age" (Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe).In The Hole in the Universe, an award-winning science writer "provides an illuminating slant on physics and mathematics by exploring the concept of nothing" ( Scientific American).Welcome to the world of cutting-edge math, physics, ... Read more

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  • The Physics of Wall Street

    A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

    A look inside the world of "quants" and how science can (and can't) predict financial markets: "Entertaining and enlightening" ( The New York Times).After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, "beware of geeks bearing formulas." But while many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, a special breed ... Read more

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  • A Fall of Moondust

    Series series Arthur C. Clarke Collection
    **A "superbly ingenious" classic of space survival from the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey—one of science fiction's most influential grandmasters ( Daily Express).Expanding the Moon's population hinges on building a thriving tourist industry. But when a prototype tourist craft called the Selene encounters a moonquake, the ship plummets under a vast body of liquid-fine moondust called the Sea of ... Read more

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