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Journey of the Universe
ISBN: PB: 9780300209433, ISBN: HB: 9780300171907, Yale University Press, November 2014
192 pp., 25x15 cm
Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars...
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£11,99
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Galileo Watcher of the Skies
ISBN: PB: 9780300197297, ISBN: HB: 9780300125368, Yale University Press, October 2013
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet fo...
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£14,99
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£25,00
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Realm of the Nebulae
ISBN: PB: 9780300187120, Yale University Press, April 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In less than a century, the accepted picture of the universe transformed from a stagnant place, comprised entirely of our own Milky Way galaxy, to a realm inhabited by billions of individual galaxies, hurtling away from one another. We must thank, in...
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£26,00
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Secret Science Spanish Cosmography and the New World
ISBN: PB: 9780226055404, ISBN: HB: 9780226675343, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 tables, 10 colour plates, 14 halftones, 5 line illus.
The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes i...
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£52,00
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Time Travel and Warp Drives A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space
ISBN: PB: 9780226045481, ISBN: HB: 9780226224985, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 9 line illus.
Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for...
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£13,50
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New Universe and the Human Future How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World
ISBN: PB: 9780300181241, ISBN: HB: 9780300165081, Yale University Press, June 2012
256 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 72 colour illus.
After a four-century rupture between science and the questions of value and meaning, this groundbreaking book presents an explosive and potentially life-altering idea: if the world could agree on a shared creation story based on modern cosmology and...
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£14,99
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£22,50
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Moon A Brief History
ISBN: PB: 9780300177695, Yale University Press, October 2011
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 93 black&white illus.
Werewolves and Wernher von Braun, Stonehenge and the sex lives of sea corals, aboriginal myths, and an Anglican bishop: in his new book, "Moon", Bernd Brunner weaves variegated information into an enchanting glimpse of Earth's closest celestial neigh...
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£28,00
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How We See the Sky A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night
ISBN: PB: 9780226345772, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 66 halftones
Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars – if, that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today's casual observer knows far less about the sky than d...
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Physical Processes in Circumstellar Disks around Young Stars
ISBN: PB: 9780226282299, ISBN: HB: 9780226282282, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
440 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 15 halftones, 78 line illus., 12 colour illus.
Circumstellar disks are vast expanses of dust that form around new stars in the earliest stages of their birth. Predicted by astronomers as early as the eighteenth century, they weren't observed until the late twentieth century, when interstellar ima...
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£56,00
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£149,00
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Geographies of Mars Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet
ISBN: HB: 9780226470788, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 39 halftones
One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life forms on the distant red planet – a hope that continued into the 1960s. Although the Martian canals have long sin...
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£47,00
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