How the Universe Works

It's hard to imagine how big the universe is, but with help from How the Universe Works, you can get to know what makes it tick. The cosmos is a complex and intricate system that astronomers have been...

After the First Three Minutes

How does our Universe evolve? And how did structures like stars and galaxies form? In recent years, scientists' understanding of these profound questions has developed enormously. This book presents a...

New Perspectives in Astrophysical Cosmology

This volume presents an unique and accessible synthesis of modern cosmology. In recent years, observational cosmology has made remarkable advances, bringing into sharper focus a new set of fundamental...

Cosmic DNA at the Origin

In Cosmic DNA at the Origin, systems scientist Chris H. Hardy, Ph.D., lays the foundations for a universe in which consciousness is the driving force of creation that we experience in our lives, and y...

Our Mathematical Universe

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesi...

Positively Happy

'Throughout the many ups and downs, the successes and the failures in my life there has been a consistent and all embracing belief that a positive attitude produces results.' Acknowledged both as one...

The Universe

John Gribbin's The Universe: A Biography explores the story of our cosmos, from the mystery of its origins to how scientists think it might end. How did the universe grow from a tiny fireball to its p...

The Universe in Bite-sized Chunks

Since the earliest humans walked the earth, the vast mysteries and wonders of the night sky have fascinated and beguiled us, as we've struggled to understand our place in the cosmos. Even after the...

Secret Mars

The Universe within

In The Universe Within, Neil Shubin, one of the world's leading experts, reveals to us the extraordinary cosmic and evolutionary adventure of our own bodies. During the past 13.7 billion years (or...

The Apocalypse

For untold millennia, comets and asteroids have struck fear into the hearts of humankind. Their stark radiance was observed everywhere with a sense of impending doom and interpreted as signs of the go...