Search results for “[Subject: space-science-astronomy]”

• Author(s): Chris Lintott • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyA "riveting real-life Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (The Telegraph), told "with an engaging voice, a diverting sense of hum...

• Author(s): Patricia Barnes-Svarney • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyA look at the creation and composition of asteroids and the frightening eventuality of a collision with the earth.

• Author(s): Lloyd Motz • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyTrace the development of astronomy from early Greek stargazers to the ambitious pioneers: Brahe, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton - ...

• Author(s): John Boslough • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyIn the early 1990s, a NASA-led team of scientists changed the way we view the universe. With the COBE (Cosmic Background Explor...

• Author(s): Paul Halpern • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyAn amazing journey throughout the universe in a search for other planets and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

• Author(s): Emma Chapman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: AstronomyHow learning to "listen" to the universe using radio waves has revolutionized our understanding of everything from gravity to little green men. ...

• Author(s): Paul Davies • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyRagnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. In The Last Three Minutes, Pau...

• Author(s): Caleb Scharf • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - Space ExplorationA leading astrobiologist argues that space travel is an evolutionary event at least as important as life's first journey...

• Author(s): Dimitar Sasselov • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyIn 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus fomented a revolution when he debunked the geocentric view of the universe, proving instead tha...

• Author(s): Steven Weinberg • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Physics - AstrophysicsA Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and ...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Physics - RelativityThe legendary introduction to physics from the subject's greatest teacher "The whole thing was basically ...

• Author(s): Roger Clay • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - AstrophysicsIn 1992 the fastest object known to mankind hit the Earth's atmosphere at a speed within a billion-trillionth of one percent of the s...

• Author(s): John D. Barrow • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: AstronomyThis text reviews speculative theories about the nature of time and the inflationary universe, explains wormholes, showing how they bear upon ...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - RelativityLearn about Einstein's theory of relativity from a physics Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth centu...

• Author(s): Stephanie Nolen • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryIn 1959, the doctor who supervised NASA's astronaut selection concluded that women might fare better in space than men. His testing of 25 top f...

• Author(s): Sabine Hossenfelder • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: HistoryIn this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beau...

• Author(s): Jane Gregory | Steven Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsDoes the general public need to understand science? And if so, is it scientists' responsibility to communi...

• Author(s): Chris Mooney | Sheril Kirshenbaum • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsJournalist and bestselling author Mooney and scientist Kirshenbaum offer an impassioned polemic about...

• Author(s): Chris Mooney • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismThe New York Times bestseller that exposes the conservative agenda to put politics ahead of scientifi...

• Author(s): Robert B. Laughlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsA Nobel Laureate physicist argues that ours is not an age of information but an age of disinformation and ignorance,...

• Author(s): Charles S. Cockell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionA groundbreaking argument for why alien life will evolve to be much like life here on Earth We are all familiar with the ...

• Author(s): Daniel Bor • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceConsciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh's starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven's Fi...