Using Christophe Galfard's considerable skills as a brilliant theoretical physicist and successful young adult author, this book employs the immediacy of simple, direct language to show us, not explain to us, the theories that underpin...
Astronomy
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Author:Galfard, ChristopheSummary: -
Author:Tyson, Neil deGrasseSummary:When the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood, Americans rallied behind this extraterrestrial underdog. Pluto is entrenched in our cultural, patriotic view of the cosmos, and Tyson is on a quest to discover why...
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Author:Jackson, Ellen B.Summary:Follows Dr. Alex Fillippenko and his High-Z Supernova Search Team as they use the Keck telescope in Hawaii to look for supernovae, find black holes, and study the effects of dark energy.
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- Author:FORT, CharlesSummary:
The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and inorganic materials from...
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Author:Lightman, Alan P.Summary:Alan Lightman explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by discoveries in science, focusing on the human condition and the needs of mankind. He suggests that, perhaps, what we see and understand of the world is only a...
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Author:Farrell, JohnSummary:Presents alphabetically arranged entries on stars, galaxies, and constellations, based on observations of the sky at night.
- Author:Urbain, Jean-PierreSummary:
Ce livre permettra aux 10 ans et plus de faire connaissance avec ce qui nous « pend » au-dessus de la tête. En effet, une foule de satellites artificiels, d’astéroïdes et de comètes peuvent à tout moment s’abattre sur nous. Grâce à ce...
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Author:Smith, David J.Summary:Author has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown...
- Author:Hobbs, WillSummary:
Brady Steele watches in awe as a fireball comes crashing through the roof of his house. Fred, as Brady names his space rock, turns out to be one of the rarest meteorites ever found. Professor Rip Ripley from the museum in Hill City...
- Author:Drissen, LaurentSummary:
Rien n’est plus fugace qu’une information entendue à la radio, souvent en déplacement ou en faisant autre chose. Voilà pourquoi l’astronome québécois Laurent Drissen a réécrit, complété et mis à jour les chroniques qu’il a servies aux...
- Author:MASON, Alfred E. W.Summary:
Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a vacation at Aix-les-Bains. There he meets, and immediately falls in love with, the young and...
- Author:Kaler, James B.Summary:
In this course, University of Illinois professor James Kaler examines our local solar system and places it into the greater context to know where it all came from and what its fate may be.
- Author:Sobel, DavaSummary:
Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protégé, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and...
- Author:Hawking, S. W.Summary:
Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of...
