Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
Nothing
Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds—all from nothing!
It turns out that almost nothing is as curious—or as enlightening—as, well, nothing. What is nothingness? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science...
Before the Big Bang
The Prehistory of Our Universe
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
According to a recent survey, the most popular question about science from the general public was: what came before the Big Bang? We all know on some level what the Big Bang is, but we don't know how it became the accepted theory, or how we might know what came before. In Before the Big Bang, Brian...
Mapping the Heavens
The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This book provides a tour of the “greatest hits” of cosmological discoveries—the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy...
Seeing in the Dark
How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
In Seeing in the Dark, a poetic love letter to science and to the skies, Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers. He recounts his own experiences as an enthralled lifelong amateur astronomer and reports from around the globe -- from England and Italy to the Florida Keys and the Chilean...
Parallax
The Race to Measure the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
In the dramatic tradition of the best-selling Longitude, Parallax charts the historical path of observational astronomy's most daunting challenge: measuring the distance to a star.
The greatest scientific minds applied themselves in vain to the problem across the millennia, beginning with the...
by Chandre Dharma-wardana
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
This is a highly interdisciplinary book straddling physics and complex systems such as living organisms. The presentation is from the perspective of physics, in a manner accessible to those interested in scientific knowledge integrated within its socio-cultural and philosophical backgrounds. Two key...
Eccentric Orbits
The Iridium Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
“Good corporate drama . . . an enlightening narrative of how new communications infrastructures often come about.” —The Economist, “A Book of the Year 2016”
In the early 1990s, Motorola developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement....
by Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
**“Cox brings a magical enchantment to this life-changing book. . . . I swear that you will never be the same again after you turn the last page of this unique and irresistible book.” —**Sunday Express (London)
Experience the cosmos as never before with Brian Cox’s Wonders of the...
by Charles River Editors, David Brewster, Walter Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Johannes Kepler•David Brewsters biography of Kepler from The Martyrs of Science•Kepler by Walter W. BryantWe do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we...
13.8
The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The twentieth century gave us two great theories of physics. The general theory of relativity describes the behavior of very large things, and quantum theory the behavior of very small things. In this landmark book, John Gribbin—one of the best-known science writers of the past thirty years—presents...
Planet Earth
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In this incredible expedition into the origins, workings, and evolution of our home planet, John Gribbin, bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, The Scientists, and In Search of the Multiverse, does what he does best: taking four and a half billion years of mind-boggling science and...
by Andrew King
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Every atom of our bodies has been part of a star. Our very own star, the Sun, is crucial to the development and sustainability of life on Earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a modern, authoritative examination of how stars live, producing all the chemical elements beyond helium, and how they...
The Planet Factory
Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Twenty years ago, the search for planets outside the Solar System was a job restricted to science-fiction writers. Now it's one of the fastest-growing fields in astronomy with thousands of exoplanets discovered to date, and the number is rising fast.
These new-found worlds are more alien than...
Prisons of Light
Black Holes
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
What is a black hole? Could we survive a visit to one? Perhaps even venture inside? What would we find? Have we yet discovered any real black holes?
And what do black holes teach us about what physicist John Archibald Wheeler called “the deep, happy, mysteries of the universe”?
These...