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The Illustrated A Brief History of Time
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 40.00In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History Of Time has established itself as a landmark volume in scientific writing. It has become an international publishing phenomenon, translated into forty languages and selling over nine million copies. The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature... 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...
The Universe Within
Allen & Unwin 2013; US$ 25.45World-renowned physicist Neil Turok delivers this year's Massey Lectures - a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future. A groundbreaking book about the future of science - and the directions in which it will take us and our world. more...
Advanced Statistical Methods for Astrophysical Probes of Cosmology
Springer 2013; US$ 99.99This thesis explores advanced Bayesian statistical methods for extracting key information for cosmological model selection, parameter inference and forecasting from astrophysical observations.Bayesian model selection provides a measure of how good models in a set are relative to each other - but what if the best model is missing and not included in... more...
The March of Time
Springer 2013; US$ 31.99The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to reconstruct the evolution of our changing conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries. It will adopt a new perspective and organize the material around three central themes, which run through our history of time reckoning: cosmology and regularity; stasis and flux; symmetry and asymmetry.... more...
Time, Space, Stars and Man
World Scientific Publishing Company 2012; US$ 166.00The three greatest scientific mysteries, which remain poorly understood, are the origin of the universe, the origin of life and the development of consciousness. This book describes the processes preceding the Big Bang, the creation of matter, the concentration of that matter into stars and planets, the development of simple life forms and the theory... more...
The Universe
Wiley 2012; US$ 99.95Written by a well-known author in the field, this book presents a modern understanding of the universe based on relativity, quantum physics and their elusive combination. It introduces the crucial theoretical ingredients in an accessible way, starting from the physics of Newton and developing subsequent theories all the way to the modern enigma of... more...
The Universe Within
House of Anansi Press 2012; US$ 15.95Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the universe around us. Scientific knowledge is our most precious possession, and our future will be shaped by the breakthroughs to come. In this personal, visionary, and fascinating work, Neil Turok, Director of Canada?s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,... more...
Unendliche Weiten: Lösungsorientiert denken mit Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock und Dr. McCoy
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 19.40Hauptbeschreibung Der Weltraum: unendliche Weiten ... Wir schreiben das Jahr 2012. Dies sind die Abenteuer des Raumschiffs Enterprise, das viele Jahre unterwegs war, um neue Welten zu erforschen, neue Assoziationen und neue Denkwege. Durch kleine Verschiebungen Ihrer normalen Alltagswahrnehmung dringen auch Sie mit der Enterprise in Galaxien vor,... more...









