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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...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Theories of the Universe
Alpha Books 2001; US$ 19.95You?re no idiot, of course. You know Heisenburg?s uncertainty principle has nothing to do with where you put your car keys. But modern cosmology is relatively complicated. The mystery of the universe definitely isn?t one we can flip to the end to see whodunit. That hasn?t stopped physicists, astronomers, and philosophers from searching for clues!... 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...
Finding the Big Bang
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 71.00A collection of essays on research on CMBR in the 1960s by eminent cosmologists who pioneered the work. 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...
The Big Bang Never Happened
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 19.95A mesmerizing challenge to orthodox cosmology with powerful implications not only for cosmology itself but also for our notions of time, God, and human nature -- with a new Preface addressing the latest developments in the field. Far-ranging and provocative, The Big Bang Never Happened is more than a critique of one of the primary theories of astronomy... more...
Cycles of Time
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 13.34What came before the Big Bang? How did the universe begin and must it inevitably end? In this remarkable book Roger Penrose brilliantly illuminates some of the deepest mysteries of the universe. Cycles of Time contains a penetrating analysis of the second law of thermodynamics - according to which the 'randomness' of our world is continually... more...









