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  • The Five Ages of the Universe

    Inside the Physics of Eternity

    As the twentieth century closed, Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin captured the attention of the world by identifying the five ages of time. In The Five Ages of the Universe, Adams and Laughlin demonstrate that we can now understand the complete life story of the cosmos from beginning to end.Adams and Laughlin have been hailed as the creators of the definitive long-term projection of the evolution of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Origins of Existence

    How Life Emerged in the Universe

    by Fred C. Adams ...
    In Origins of Existence astrophysicist Fred Adams takes a radically different approach from the long tradition of biologists and spiritual leaders who have tried to explain how the universe supports the development of life. He argues that life followed naturally from the laws of physics -- which were established as the universe burst into existence at the big bang. Those elegant laws drove the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Hidden Reality

    Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

    by Brian Greene ...
    The bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos tackles perhaps the most mind-bending question in modern physics and cosmology: Is our universe the only universe?There was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet, a number of theories are converging on the possibility that our universe may be but one among many parallel universes populating a vast ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • River Out of Eden

    A Darwinian View of Life

    How did the replication bomb we call ”life” begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times described his style as ”the sort of science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius”), Richard Dawkins confronts this ancient mystery. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Against the Grain

    A Deep History of the Earliest States

    An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrativeWhy did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • A History of the Universe

    Volume I: Complexity

    Take a mind blowing journey beyond the furthest stars, from the Big Bang to the end of time. Witness the evolution of complexity, from organic chemistry to the Dinosaurs. Probe the deepest recesses of the human mind in search consciousness itself. It's all here in this dazzling first volume of Henry Kong's history of the Universe. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Red Moon Rising

    Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age

    A vivid, behind-the-scenes history of the Cold War's space race between the Soviets & Americans following the launch of Sputnik."In his exuberant narrative of the superpower space race . . . [Brzezinski] tells the story of American and Soviet decisions with remarkable dramatic—even cinematic—flair." — The New York Times Book ReviewIn Red Moon Rising, Matthew Brzezinski recounts the dramatic behind ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Out Of Control

    The New Biology Of Machines, Social Systems, And The Economic World

    by Kevin Kelly ...
    Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • On the Origin of Species

    This exciting anniversary edition has a new introduction and scholarly references by William Bynum, and the cover design is by Damien Hirst. It replaces our existing 1968 edition.The Origin of Species is one of the most important and influential books of its time and remains one of the most significant contributions to philosophical and scientific thought. The theories Darwin sets out here had an ... Read more

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  • Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (Illustrated Edition)

    Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) needs no formal introduction, being one of the most famous astronomers and scientists in history. After four years, Galileo had announced to his father that he wanted to be a monk. This was not exactly what father had in mind, so Galileo was hastily withdrawn from the monastery. In 1581, at the age of 17, he entered the University of Pisa to study medicine, as his ... Read more

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  • Trilobite

    Eyewitness to Evolution

    With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle is today, they survived in the arctic or the ... Read more

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  • Cosmology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Coles ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history of the subject, the development of the Big Bang theory, and more speculative modern issues like quantum cosmology, superstrings, and dark matter. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD