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The Red Limit
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99For centuries, it was assumed that our universe was static. In the late 1920s, astronomers defeated this assumption with a startling new discovery. From Earth, the light of distant galaxies appeared to be red, meaning that those galaxies were receding from us. This led to the revolutionary realization that the universe is expanding. The Red Limit... more...
Conceptions of Cosmos
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 84.99This book presents the history of how the universe at large became the object of scientific understanding. Starting with the ancient creation myths, it offers an integrated and comprehensive account of cosmology that covers all major events from Aristotle's Earth-centred cosmos to the recent discovery of the accelearting universe. - ;This book... more...
Cosmology
Oxford University Press, UK 2008; US$ 98.99This is a uniquely comprehensive and detailed treatment of the theoretical and observational foundations of modern cosmology, by a Nobel Laureate in Physics. It gives up-to-date and self contained accounts of the theories and observations that have made the past few decades a golden age of cosmology. - ;This book is unique in the detailed, self-contained,... more...
Foundations of Modern Cosmology
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 99.99Recent discoveries in astronomy have revolutionized the field of cosmology. While many long-standing questions in cosmology have now been answered, the new data pose new mysteries such as the nature of the "dark energy" that dominates the universe. This second edition provides an accessible and thorough text on the physics of cosmology and... more...
The Infinite Cosmos
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 16.99In The Infinite Cosmos Joseph Silk guides the reader through the modern understanding of the cosmos, in a narrative that brings together the latest theory and observation and combines science with literary quotations to capture our growing understanding of the vastness and wonder of our Universe. - ;From time immemorial, poets and philosophers have... more...
The Life of the Cosmos
Oxford University Press, USA 1999; US$ 18.99Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before. Smolin posits that a process of self organization like that of biological evolution shapes the universe, as it develops and eventually reproduces through black holes, each of which may result in a new big bang... more...
Entropic Creation
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 124.95Entropic Creation is the first book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, and the theory proposed by certain Christian scholars during the period 1860 to 1920 that the entropic creation argument is proof of a divine creation of the world. more...
Once Before Time
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.00In 2000, Martin Bojowald, then a twenty-seven-year-old post-doc at Pennsylvania State University, used a relatively new theory called loop quantum gravity?a cunning combination of Einstein?s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics?to create a simple model of the universe. Loop quantum cosmology was born, and with it, a theory that managed to do something... more...
Cosmic Odyssey
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 26.00The immensity of the cosmos, the richness of the Universe, the limits of space and time: these are the themes of Cosmic Odyssey. more...
The Ultimate Fate of the Universe
Cambridge University Press 1983; US$ 38.00This book describes what will ultimately happen to the contents of the universe. more...









