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  • Parapoints

    by George. E. Smith ...
    Parapoints is a mainstream science fiction novel set in a future reality. These orbital artefacts, originally discovered by bioships, link inhabited planets by instantaneous travel. Dubois, a navigator, trader and recruiter for PRDX, enters one and, uniquely, exits fifteen years late. His subsequent adventures include being inducted into an organisation dedicated to discovering the creators of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brownian Motion and Molecular Reality

    by Raghav Seth, George E. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
    Between 1905 and 1913, French physicist Jean Perrin's experiments on Brownian motion ostensibly put a definitive end to the long debate regarding the real existence of molecules, proving the atomic theory of matter. While Perrin's results had a significant impact at the time, later examination of his experiments questioned whether he really gained experimental access to the molecular realm. The ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Newton

    Edited by I. Bernard Cohen, George E. Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and the natural sciences. In this volume a team of distinguished contributors examine all the main aspects of Newton's thought, including not only his approach to space, time, mechanics, and universal gravity in his Principia, ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Newton

    Edited by Rob Iliffe, George E. Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and physics. While most famous for his Principia, his work on light and colour, and his discovery of the calculus, Newton devoted much more time to research in chemistry and alchemy, and to studying prophecy, church history and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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    Unravelling the Mysteries of the Universe

    by Raymond Flood, Robin Wilson ...
    Why did Florence Nightingale introduce pie charts? How did Lewis Carroll regard Pythagoras? Who learned calculus from her nursery wallpaper?Spanning from the ancient world to the modern age, The Great Mathematicians tells fascinating and unusual tales of the men and women who transformed mathematics. We meet the mathematician who knew eight languages by the time he was 11, the one who was sent to ... Read more

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  • The Forever Hero

    Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, In Endless Twilight

    by L. E. Modesitt Jr. ...
    Series series Forever Hero
    L. E. Modesitt, Jr's first major work was a trilogy of SF adventure novels published as paperback originals in the 1980s: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, and In Endless Twilight. Together they form The Forever Hero.Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few degenerate ... Read more

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  • Return of the God Hypothesis

    Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe

    by Stephen C. Meyer ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen Meyer,presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology.Beginning in the late 19th century, many intellectuals influenced by scientific materialism began to insist that scientific knowledge conflicts with traditional theistic belief—that science and belief ... Read more

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  • Beloved Enemy

    Gaian Stories, #3

    by Janet Miller ...
    Series Book 3 - Gaian Stories
    In the far distant future, during a war that no one really wanted, two starfighter pilots become stranded on a deserted jungle planet. Both have skills the other needs for survival and they decide to work together rather than fight.But there is more than that between them. Earthforce's Lieutenant Meagan An Flena turns out to be Gaian Pilot Kavath Terrell's sexual match. Kavath attaches to Mea and ... Read more

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  • Isaac Newton

    by James Gleick ...
    Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them names—mass, ... Read more

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  • Implied Spaces

    by Walter Jon Williams ...
    “Walter Jon Williams really knows how to play power chords in the ‘key of wonder’ and in Implied Spaces he’s gone to town on the guitar solo!”--Charles Stross“Implied Spaces pioneers a new genre of SF--- the ‘Sword and Singularity’ novel. Williams combines fantasy tropes believably with nanotech, bleeding-edge infotech speculation, classic smashing-planets space opera, and intriguingly human, or ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Empire & Ecolitan

    Two complete novels of the Galactic Empire: 'The Ecolitan Operation' and "The Ecologic Sucession'

    by L. E. Modesitt Jr. ...
    Series series Ecolitan Matter
    This is an omnibus of two early novels in New York Times bestselling author L.E. Modesitt's Ecolitan Matter series, The Ecolitan Operation and The Ecologic Secession.Major Jimjoy Earle Wright, secret agent of the Empire, succeeds all too well in overthrowing a military dictatorship—and the result is a new government inimical to the Empire and disgrace for Jimjoy. After two assassination attempts, ... Read more

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  • God's Undertaker

    Has Science Buried God?

    by Professor John C Lennox ...
    Evaluates the evidence of modern science in relation to the debate between the atheistic and theistic interpretations of the universe, and provides a fresh basis for discussion. The book has grown out of the author's lengthy experience of lecturing and debating on this subject in the UK, USA, Germany and Russia, and has been written in response to endless requests for the argumentation in written ... Read more

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