After the huge national and international success of 'Longitude' and 'Gallileo's Daughter', Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system.
This book compiles a compendium of the current knowledge on the distribution, speciation and behavior of sulfur in the atmosphere, surface, crust, mantle, and core of the Earth as well as the other bodies of the solar system, including the terrestrial planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, moons, and the gas giants.
This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About How to Destroy a Black Hole, the story of whether the universe's most extreme objects can ever truly be destroyed.
Marriage Delay Remedies – Vedic Guidance is a practical, research-oriented handbook that explains why marriage gets delayed according to Vedic astrology and how those delays can be addressed realistically.
The Cosmos: A Complete Book on the Universe, Existence, and Meaning is an expansive yet deeply human exploration of reality, from the birth of the universe to the inner life of consciousness and the enduring search for purpose.
Venus Remedies for Love & Relationship HarmonyAttraction • Romance • Peace in Marriage • Beauty EnergyLove doesn't disappear suddenly—it fades when harmony is disturbed at an unseen level.
This book journeys into one of the most fascinating intellectual adventures of recent decades - understanding and exploring the final fate of massive collapsing stars in the universe.
En la presente obra se exponen algunos de los aspectos fundamentales de la relatividad general, con énfasis en el fenómeno astrofísico que haría posible para el ser humano viajar a través del universo: los agujeros de gusano, una estructura que hipotéticamente podría conectar dos puntos del espacio-tiempo —dos agujeros negros, por ejemplo—, que mantiene a los científicos en un conflicto constante y cuya existencia parece sacada de novelas de ciencia ficción pero que convertiría en una posibilidad real los viajes interdimensionales e, inclusive, los viajes en el tiempo.
Praise for the previous edition'A relaxed, well-written and information-packed expedition discovering the history of eclipses' - The Sky at NightA complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, a total eclipse of the Sun Totality: The Great North American Eclipse of 2024 is the most comprehensive source of information, photographs, and illustrations to help readers understand and safely enjoy all aspects of solar eclipses.
Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science is a presentation of science for the general reader, with an emphasis on correcting widely held misconceptions, and a call to liberate science from 'private ownership' in cultural terms.
Physical Relativity explores the nature of the distinction at the heart of Einstein's 1905 formulation of his special theory of relativity: that between kinematics and dynamics.
This book is unique in the detailed, self-contained, and comprehensive treatment that it gives to the ideas and formulas that are used and tested in modern cosmological research.
This book offers a readily comprehensible introduction to classical Newtonian gravitation and potential theory, which are fundamental for understanding classical mechanics and particularly relevant to astrophysics.
This book offers a readily comprehensible introduction to classical Newtonian gravitation and potential theory, which are fundamental for understanding classical mechanics and particularly relevant to astrophysics.