The History of Everything meets Astrophysics for People in a Hurry in this humorous, accessible exploration of how meteorites have helped, not only, build the planet, but steered the evolution of life and human culture.

"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly,...

Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku offers the first book-length tour of the most exciting (and perhaps...

Here is Dr. Wernher von Braun's incredible story, from his early years in Germany, where he gave birth to modern rocketry, to his arrival in the United States and his launching of the first American satellite, the first man on the moon and other stunning space exploration feats. "Every page of Wernher von Braun's life is a monument to the drama of adventure. Few people have been fighting so hard and, indeed, very few have been subject to so much...

The Universe May Be a Mystery,But It's No SecretMichael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a comprehensive...

Go on an awe-inspiring journey, unraveling the secrets of our universe from the tiniest particles to the vastness of space

In this thought-provoking exploration, physicists Chris Ferrie and Geraint F. Lewis delve into the fundamental questions that have puzzled humanity for centuries. What sparked the birth of the universe? How did matter and energy come into existence? With clarity and precision, Ferrie and Lewis navigate

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Joshua S. Bloom is associate professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. A brief, cutting-edge introduction to the brightest cosmic phenomena known to science Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest-and, until recently, among the least understood-cosmic events in the universe. Discovered by chance during the cold war, these evanescent high-energy explosions confounded astronomers for decades. But a rapid series of startling breakthroughs...

Richard O. Gray is professor of astronomy at Appalachian State University. Christopher J. Corbally, SJ, is a vice director of the Vatican Observatory and adjunct associate professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona. Written by leading experts in the field, Stellar Spectral Classification is the only book to comprehensively discuss both the foundations and most up-to-date techniques of MK and other spectral classification systems. Definitive...

La astrofísica es la física de las estrellas y, más ampliamente, la física del universo. Nos permite comprender la estructura y evolución de los sistemas planetarios, estrellas, galaxias y gas interestelar, y del cosmos como un todo. En esta breve introducción, el destacado astrofísico James Binney explica cómo el campo de la astrofísica creció tan rápidamente en el siglo pasado, con enormes cantidades de datos recopilados por telescopios...

Dr. Louis Komzsik is an engineer and mathematician, a graduate of the Technical University and the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, both in Budapest Hungary. He immigrated to the US in 1981 and since then worked as engineer in the industry and taught mathematics at several California universities. He is the author of a handful of internationally known mathematical and engineering textbooks. In this easily readable volume, he wrote about the...