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Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Readers of his essays in Natural History magazine recognise Neil deGrasse Tyson's talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the co...

Our Mathematical Universe - My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

A journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of reality from a science author well-known among hi...

Reality Is Not What It Seems - The Journey to Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy ...

A Universe from Nothing - Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

The astounding "New York Times" bestseller--updated with an explanation of the Higgs Boson and its implications--offers new answers to th...

The Black Hole War - My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

Winner of the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. The father of string theory recounts the inside story behind ...

The God Equation - The Quest for a Theory of Everything

'A majestic story' David Bodanis, Financial Times From the international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of t...

Letters from an Astrophysicist

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe, from the 'most popular scientist...

We Have No Idea - A Guide to the Unknown Universe

In our small corner of the universe, we know how some matter behaves most of the time and what even less of it looks like, and we have so...

The Elegant Universe - Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

An erudite explanation of String theory, which resolves the hundred-year-old antagonism between General Relativity and Quantum Theory. Re...

Endurance - A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

Scott Kelly is a retired astronaut and International Space Station commander. He recently returned from his #YearInSpace to break all rec...

Black Holes: The Reith Lectures

STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. He h...

Cycles of Time - An Extraordinary New View of the Universe

What came before the Big Bang? How did the universe begin and must it inevitably end? This book illuminates some of the deepest mysteries...

The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far

'Probably the most readable, exciting and authoritative writer on science we have. A new Lawrence Krauss book always goes to the top of t...

The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy ...

Origins - Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollin...

The Future of Humanity - Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond

Michio Kaku is a professor of physics at the City University of New York, cofounder of string field theory, and the author of several wid...

A Beautiful Question - Finding Nature's Deep Design

Born in New York, Frank Wilczek studied at the University of Chicago and gained his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University. Frank won t...

A Universe From Nothing - why there is something rather than nothing

A provocative account of the astounding new answers to the most basic philosophical questions: where did the universe come from and how w...

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth - Life lessons from space

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth is an inspirational memoir of space exploration and hard-won wisdom, from an astronaut who has spen...

Fundamentals - Ten Keys to Reality

One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical w...

The End of Everything - (Astrophysically Speaking)

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, NEW SCIENTIST, BBC FOCUS, INDEPENDENT AND WASHINGTON POST 'A rollicking tour of...

Before the Big Bang - Our Origins in the Multiverse

One of the world's most celebrated cosmologists presents her breakthrough explanation of our origins in the multiverse. 'Fascinating' ROG...

A Brief History of Black Holes - And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientif...

General Relativity: The Essentials

A straightforward introduction to General Relativity, explaining the physical, philosophical and mathematical ideas it is built on.

Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

"This gem of a book is vintage Roger Penrose: eloquently argued and deeply original on every page. His perspective on the present crisis ...

Extraterrestrial - The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

VISIONARY' Stephen Greenblatt Harvard's top astronomer takes us inside the mind-blowing story of the first interstellar visitor to our so...

Eclipse Almanac 2031 to 2040 - Black and White Edition

Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them - A Journey to the Edge of Physics

What are the mysterious numbers that unlock the secrets of the universe? In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, leading theoretical...

This Way to the Universe - A Journey into Physics

'Extraordinary' Leonard Susskind 'A rare event' Sean Carroll _____ When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked wh...

What's Eating the Universe? - And Other Cosmic Questions

'Brilliant. You won't find a clearer, more engaging guide to what we know (or would like to know) about the universe and how it is put to...

The Science of Can and Can't - A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals

A young theoretical physicist's guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal the full scope of our universe There i...

Until the End of Time - Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, a captivating exploration ...

Heidelberg - City of Astronomy - From Small Planets to the Second Earth

Heidelberg has been a home for astronomy innovation for centuries. In 1609 Kepler's Astronomia Nova was printed here. Heidelberg also saw...

The Sky Vault - The Comet Cycle Book 3

The third and final book in Percy's innovative and acclaimed Comet Cycle, The Sky Vault follows the aftermath of an airplane that goes mi...

A Dictionary of Astronomy

Completely revised and updated, this dictionary contains over 4,300 entries covering all aspects of astronomy. Written by an expert team ...

Einstein's Monsters - The Life and Times of Black Holes

Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, yet every galaxy harbours a black hole at its centre. In Einstein's Monsters, C...

interstellarum Deep Sky Atlas - Desk Edition

Der interstellarum Deep-Sky-Atlas ist das Kartenwerk einer neuen Generation. Er ist ein einzigartiges und unverzichtbares Hilfsmittel für...

Eyes in the Sky - Space Telescopes from Hubble to Webb

Over 50 years ago, astronomers launched the world's first orbiting telescope. This allowed them to gaze further into outer space and exam...

Eclipse Bulletin: Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 August 21 - Color Edition

Apollo 11 - The Moon Landing in Real Time

Brings Apollo 11's moon landing mission back to life as never before in a thrilling day-by-day account.

Conjuring the Universe - The Origins of the Laws of Nature

The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale...

Starry Messenger - Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, ...

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity - A Concise Introduction

This short text describes the physics of curved space-times and Einstein's general theory of relativity for physics undergraduates with a...

Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction

For many decades, we were only familiar with our own system of planets, the Solar System, orbiting our Sun. Now we know that it is just o...

Light in the Darkness - Black Holes, The Universe and Us

For readers of Stephen Hawking, a fascinating account of the universe from the perspective of world-leading astrophysicist Heino Falcke, ...

Time Reborn - From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

One of the 21st century's foremost physicists and thinkers presents a radical new view of the nature of time and the cosmos, concluding t...

An Infinity of Worlds - Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe

What happened before the primordial fire of the Big Bang: a theory about the ultimate origin of the universe. In the beginning was the Bi...

Yearbook of Astronomy 2024

The longest-running astronomy book of its kind in the world (has appeared every year since 1962). Popular astronomy annual for amateur an...

Violent Phenomena in the Universe

Acclaimed by "Nature" as "excellent and uncompromising," this reader-friendly book explores exploding stars, black holes, and the Big Ban...

Black Hole Survival Guide

What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole? Black holes are found throughout the universe. They can be microscopic. They can be bill...

A Little Book of Coincidence: In the Solar System

Night Sky with the Naked Eye: How to Find Planets, Constellations, Satellites and Other Night Sky Wonders Without a Telescope - How to Find Planets, Constellations, Satellites and Other Night Sky Wonders without a Telescope

Understand and Enjoy the Wonders of the Stars with Fun Activities for the Whole Family Gain a deeper appreciation of the universe and our...

Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis

An ideal bridging text for astrophysics and physics majors looking to move on from the introductory texts.

Chasing Venus - The Race to Measure the Heavens

On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun in more than ...

The Universe in a Box - A New Cosmic History

**AS SEEN ON BBC BREAKFAST** Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look u...

Interstellar - The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth

'LOEB IS AN ASTRONOMICAL SHERLOCK HOLMES' Washington Post 'A JOY IN CONJECTURE AND AN OMNIVOROUS SPIRIT OF INQUIRY. . . CARL SAGAN WOULD ...

Galaxies

"This book introduces readers to the rich history and physics of galaxies, describing what we know about these systems as well as the mys...

2025 Night Sky Almanac - A Month-By-Month Guide to North America's Skies from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

A portable guidebook for enjoying the night sky in 2025. 2025 Night Sky Almanac is the ideal resource for both novice and experienced sky...

Starborn - How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them

Revealing the fundamental connection between the stars and the story of civilization, leading cosmologist Roberto Trotta explores how the...

Titan After Cassini-Huygens

Titan After Cassini-Huygens is the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of our knowledge on Titan, including results and insights f...