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“wayne horowitz”

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  • Living the Lunar Calendar

    Edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz, John M. Steele ...
    Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric conditions, weather and the acuity of the eye of an observer mean that the first sighting of the new moon crescent can never be known in advance. Calendars which rely on such observations to define the beginning of a new month therefore suffer from this lack of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Fabric of the Cosmos

    Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

    by Brian Greene ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes “an astonishing ride” through the universe (The New York Times) that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Decoding the Heavens

    A 2,000-Year-Old Computer -- and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets

    by Jo Marchant ...
    In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable characters and explores the deep roots of modern technology in ancient Greece and the medieval European and Islamic worlds. At its heart, this is an epic adventure ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Archives of the Universe

    100 Discoveries That Transformed Our Understanding of the Cosmos

    Edited by Marcia Bartusiak ...
    An unparalleled history of astronomy presented in the words of the scientists who made the discoveries. Here are the writings of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Halley, Hubble, and Einstein, as well as that of dozens of others who have significantly contributed to our picture of the universe.From Aristotle's proof that the Earth is round to the 1998 paper that posited an accelerating universe ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Introducing Time

    A Graphic Guide

    by Craig Callender ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    What is time? The 5th-century philosopher St Augustine famously said that he knew what time was, so long as no one asked him.Is time a fourth dimension similar to space or does it flow in some sense? And if it flows, does it make sense to say how fast? Does the future exist? Is time travel possible? Why does time seem to pass in only one direction?These questions and others are among the deepest ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Earth

    Our Path to a New Home in the Planets

    by Charles Wohlforth, Amanda R. Hendrix Ph.D. ...
    From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer, a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable.We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly more entrepreneurs—Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos—are seduced by the commercial potential of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities

    The causes of mass extinctions

    by Tony Hallam ...
    This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. The most famous is the mass extinction that happened about 65 million years ago, and that caused the death of the dinosaurs. But that was not the worst mass extinction: that honour goes to the extinction at the end of the Permian ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Astronomy Bible

    by Nigel Henbest ...
    This comprehensive guide to astronomy introduces the basic concepts, explaining what, when, and how to observe space, right through to current theories on everything from black holes to microquasars. It helps you to navigate the night sky, identify the constellations and find planets, comets, galaxies and deep-sky objects.Accessible, informative, and fully-illustrated, this is an invaluable ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 13 Journeys Through Space and Time

    Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution

    by Colin Stuart, Tim Peake ...
    Series Book 1 - The RI Lectures
    An exploration of space and time and a journey of discovery, through thirteen of the most fascinating Christmas Lectures given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain over the last 200 years. With a foreword by ESA astronaut Tim Peake.Started at the Royal Institution (RI) in 1825 by Michael Faraday, the Christmas Lectures have been broadcast on television since the 1960s and have formed part of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • How Big is Big and How Small is Small

    The Sizes of Everything and Why

    by Timothy Paul Smith ...
    This book is about how big is the universe and how small are quarks, and what are the sizes of dozens of things between these two extremes. It describes the sizes of atoms and planets, quarks and galaxies, cells and sequoias. It is a romp through forty-five orders of magnitude from the smallest sub-nuclear particles we have measured, to the edge of the observed universe. It also looks at time, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Astro-Imaging Projects for Amateur Astronomers

    A Maker’s Guide

    by Jim Chung ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This is the must-have guide for all amateur astronomers who double as makers, doers, tinkerers, problem-solvers, and inventors. In a world where an amateur astronomy habit can easily run into the many thousands of dollars, it is still possible for practitioners to get high-quality results and equipment on a budget by utilizing DIY techniques. Surprisingly, it's not that hard to modify existing ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Cosmology

    The Science of the Universe

    by Edward Harrison ...
    Cosmology: The Science of the Universe is an introduction to past and present cosmological theory. For much of the world's history, cosmological thought was formulated in religious or philosophical language and was thus theological or metaphysical in nature. However, cosmological speculation and theory is now a science in which the empirical discoveries of the astronomer, theoretical physicist, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD