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Possibilities in Parallel
Scientific American 2013; US$ 3.99Parallel universes are a staple of science fiction, and it's no wonder. They allow us to explore the question, "what if?" in a way that lets us step completely outside of the world we know, rather than question how that world might have turned out differently. For cosmologists, the question isn't "what if the South won the Civil War?" but "what if... more...
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...
The Joyous Cosmology
New World Library 2013; US$ 14.00The Joyous Cosmology is both a riveting memoir of Watts?s personal experiments and a profound meditation on the nature of existence and the existence of the sacred. more...
Strange New Worlds
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 17.95In Strange New Worlds , renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets--and alien life--beyond our solar system. Only in the past two decades, after millennia of speculation, have astronomers begun to discover planets around other stars--thousands in fact. Now they are closer than ever to unraveling... more...
The Milky Way
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 29.95This book offers an intimate guide to the Milky Way, taking readers on a grand tour of our home Galaxy's structure, genesis, and evolution, based on the latest astronomical findings. In engaging language, it tells how the Milky Way congealed from blobs of gas and dark matter into a spinning starry abode brimming with diverse planetary systems--some... more...
Foundations of Quantum Gravity
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 88.00Explores how quantum coherence can be consistently incorporated into Einstein's theory of gravitation, for researchers in the foundations of physics. 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...
An Introduction to the Evolution of Single and Binary Stars
Springer 2013; US$ 47.99An Introduction to the Evolution of Single and Binary Stars provides physicists with an understanding of binary and single star evolution, beginning with a background and introduction of basic astronomical concepts. Although a general treatment of stellar structure and evolution is included, the text stresses the physical processes that lead to stellar... more...
A Physicist's View of Matter and Mind
World Scientific Publishing Company 2013; US$ 88.00This is a highly interdisciplinary book straddling physics and complex systems such as living organisms. The presentation is from the perspective of physics, in a manner accessible to those interested in scientific knowledge integrated within its socio-cultural and philosophical backgrounds. Two key areas of human understanding, namely physics and... more...
Rotating Relativistic Stars
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 100.00This volume provides the first self-contained treatment of the structure, stability and oscillations of rotating neutron stars. more...









