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  • The Infinite Book

    A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless

    by John D. Barrow ...
    For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter infinitely divisible into ever-smaller pieces? But infinity is also the place where things happen ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know

    Math Explains Your World

    by John D. Barrow ...
    “Where else does math become a romp, full of entertaining tricks and turns?”—Bryce Christensen, BooklistHave you ever considered why you always get stuck in the longest line? Why two’s company but three’s a crowd? Or why there are six degrees of separation instead of seven? In this hugely informative and endlessly entertaining book, John D. Barrow takes the most baffling of everyday phenomena and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Book of Nothing

    Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe

    by John D. Barrow ...
    What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create a vacuum? And why do contemporary quantum physicists believe that the void is actually seething with subatomic activity? You’ll find the answers ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Cosmology

    Edited by Khalil Chamcham, Joseph Silk, John D. Barrow, Simon Saunders ...
    Following a long-term international collaboration between leaders in cosmology and the philosophy of science, this volume addresses foundational questions at the limit of science across these disciplines, questions raised by observational and theoretical progress in modern cosmology. Space missions have mapped the Universe up to its early instants, opening up questions on what came before the Big ... Read more

    $72.19 USD

  • 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about Math and the Arts

    by John D. Barrow ...
    An entertaining and illuminating collection of 100 surprising connections between math and the arts.At first glance, the worlds of math and the arts might not seem like comfortable neighbors. But as mathematician John D. Barrow points out, they have a strong and natural affinity—after all, math is the study of all patterns, and the world of the arts is rich with pattern. Barrow whisks us through ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mathletics

    100 Amazing Things You Didn't Know about the World of Sports

    by John D. Barrow ...
    An entertaining, eye-opening guide to what math and physics can reveal about sports.How can sprinter Usain Bolt break his world record without expending any additional effort? What dates of birth give rise to the best professional athletes? Is it better to have the inside or outside lane during a race?Drawing on vivid, real-life examples, mathematician John D. Barrow entertainingly explores the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Water and Life

    The Unique Properties of H2O

    Edited by Ruth M. Lynden-Bell, Simon Conway Morris, John D. Barrow, John L. Finney, Charles Harper ...
    Reflecting a rich technical and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20 focuses on the properties of water and its interaction with life. The book develops a variety of approaches that help to illuminate ways in which to address deeper questions with respect to the nature of the universe and our place withi ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Origin Of The Universe

    Science Masters Series

    by John D Barrow ...
    There is no more profound, enduring or fascinating question in all of science than that of how time, space, and matter began. Now John Barrow, who has been at the cutting edge of research in this area and has written extensively about it, guides us on a journey to the beginning of time, into a world of temperatures and densities so high that we cannot recreate them in a laboratory. With new ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Origin of the Universe

    by John D. Barrow ...
    Narrated by John Curless ...
    Series series Science Masters

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    There is no more profound, enduring or fascinating question in all of science than that of how time, space, and matter began. Now John Barrow, who has been at the cutting edge of research in this area and has written extensively about it, guides us on a journey to the beginning of time, into a world of temperatures and densities so high that we cannot recreate them in a laboratory. With new ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    by Charles B. Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley, Roger L. Olsen, James Tour, Stephen Meyer, Jonathan Wells, Guillermo Gonzalez, Brian Miller, David Klinghoffer ...
    The origin of life from non-life remains one of the most enduring mysteries of modern science. The Mystery of Life's Origin: The Continuing Controversy investigates how close scientists are to solving that mystery and explores what we are learning about the origin of life from current research in chemistry, physics, astrobiology, biochemistry, and more. The book includes an updated version of the ... Read more

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  • The Grand Design

    by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A whirlwind tour of fundamental physics and cosmology.”—The Wall Street Journal“Fascinating . . . a wealth of ideas [that] leave us with a clearer understanding of modern physics in all its invigorating complexity.”—Los Angeles TimesWhen and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of our universe ... Read more

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  • Aquatic Chemistry

    Chemical Equilibria and Rates in Natural Waters

    by Werner Stumm, James J. Morgan ...
    Series Book 126 - Environmental Science and Technology: A Wiley-Interscience Series of Textsand Monographs
    The authoritative introduction to natural water chemistry THIRD EDITIONNow in its updated and expanded Third Edition, Aquatic Chemistry remains the classic resource on the essential concepts of natural water chemistry. Designed for both self-study and classroom use, this book builds a solid foundation in the general principles of natural water chemistry and then proceeds to a thorough treatment of ... Read more

    $147.00 USD