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"Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all--from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel. Describing the latest discoveries in astrophysics, the informative and entertaining...
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of the greatest minds of our time explores profound questions such as: How did the universe begin-and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending-or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends?
Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter...
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"From the world-renowned physicist, co-founder of the World Science Festival, and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this utterly captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose. Brian Greene takes readers on a breathtaking journey from the big bang to the end of time and invites us to ponder meaning in the face of this unimaginable expanse. He shows us how, from its original orderly state the universe has been...
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Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2023]
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xxiv, 313 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
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Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. Pondering this mystery led Hawking to study the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when the math predicted many big bangs producing a multiverse-countless different universes, most far too bizarre to harbor life. Holed up in the theoretical physics...
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2014
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1 DVD (176 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"...looks to the heavens in an attempt to understand the age-old secrets of Earth. Applying the most advanced science, space technology, and digital imaging, the series boldly tris to unravel history's most enduring mysteries."--Container.
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Plume
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[2014]
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xiv, 511 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Using history, astrology, and synchronicity theory among other concepts, Wilcock shows that there is hidden architecture within time, guiding individuals and nations through a system of enlightenment Joseph Campbell called the Hero's Journey. Historical events occur in shockingly precise, repeating cycles of time as a result. Once we understand and identify the hidden laws of this seemingly random "synchronicity," we are left with a remarkable blueprint...
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Shambhala
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2000
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xxv, 851 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Sex, Ecology, Spirituality is a tour de force of scholarship and vision that traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three domains. Wilber particularly focuses on modernity and postmodernity - what they mean, how they relate to gender issues, psychotherapy, ecological concerns and various liberation movements, and how the modern and postmodern world can believably conceive...
13) Universe
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DK Publishing
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Provides an in-depth, comprehensive look at the universe with a unique integration of words and pictures. Topics covered include: black holes, galaxies, the solar system, asteroids, meteors, meterorites, stars, quasars and more.
14) Crystals in the sky: an intellectual odyssey involving Chumash astronomy, cosmology and rock art
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Ballena Press anthropological papers volume no. 10
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Ballena Press
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1978
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2011
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xi, 370 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Discusses recent discoveries in physics and cosmology to explore a range of multiverse proposals, and examines how the knowledge that some aspects of reality may lie beyond human comprehension might affect scientific progress.
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"Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. What was its origin? In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the Solar System passed through a disk of dark matter embedded in the Milky Way. In a sense, it...
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Illustra Media
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2004
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1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Is Earth the product of intelligent design? Many characteristics that make our planet suitable for complex life also provide the best conditions for astronomical discovery. What does this correlation of factors indicate about the origin and purpose of the cosmos?
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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x, 357 pages ; 25 cm
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Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day -- and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of...
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Basic Books
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2021.
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viii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Where does great physics come from? As a young graduate student, cosmologist Stephon Alexander had a life-changing lesson in the subject. When asked by the legendary theoretical physicist Christopher Isham why he had attended graduate school, Alexander answered: "To become a better physicist." He could hardly have anticipated Isham's response: "Then stop reading those physics books." Instead, Isham said, Alexander should start listening to his dreams....
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