777円 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A whirlwind tour of fundamental physics and cosmology.”ーThe Wall Street Journal “Fascinating . . . a wealth of ideas [that] leave us with a clearer understanding of modern physics in all its invigorating complexity.”ーLos Angeles Times When and how did the univers...

933円 Seven years before Richard Preston wrote about horrifying viruses in The Hot Zone, he turned his attention to the cosmos. In First Light, he demonstrates his gift for creating an exciting and absorbing narrative around a complex scientific subject--in this case the efforts by astronomers at the P...

1,088円 The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and bestselling author of The First Three Minutes describes the grand quest for a unifying theory of nature--one that can explain forces as different as the cohesion inside the atom and the gravitational tug between the sun and Earth. Wirting with dazzling elegan...

2,177円 In the bestselling literary tradition of Lewis Thomas's Lives of a Cell and James Watson's The Double Helix, Poetry of the Universe is a delightful and compelling narrative charting the evolution of mathematical ideas that have helped to illuminate the nature of the observable universe. In a rich...

933円 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Thirteen extraordinary essays shed new light on the mystery of the universeーand on one of the most brilliant thinkers of our time. “[Hawking] sprinkles his explanations with a wry sense of humor and a keen awareness that the sciences today delve not only into the far ...

777円 The world's foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012 hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what we want to believe. Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilizations End. The World Cataclysm in 2012. 2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl. According to many of these alar...

1,950円 Deux anciennes disciplines se retrouvent dans un guide unique faisant autorité, toute première traduction d’un texte classique chinois. Au 3e siècle AEC, l’état chinois a adopté l’Art de la Prévision et du Positionnement comme orthodoxie impériale. À partir de ce moment-là et jusqu’à son effondre...

1,723円 What happens when a star dies? How many asteroids are in our solar system? Can galaxies collide? What is dark energy? Astronomy in Minutes answers all these questions and more as it condenses 200 key concepts into easily digestible essays. From Trojan asteroids to stellar black holes, and from su...

5,469円 Rhodri Evans tells the story of what we know about the universe, from Jacobus Kapteyn’s Island universe at the turn of the 20th Century, and the discovery by Hubble that the nebulae were external to our own galaxy, through Gamow’s early work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and its subseq...

6,905円 At this very moment the most ambitious scientific experiment of all time is beginning, and yet its precise aims are little understood by the general public. This book aims to provide an everyman's guide for understanding and following the discoveries that will take place within the next few years...

2,600円 Überall auf der Welt sind die Menschen von Orbs fasziniert - kreisrunden Lichtphänomenen, die unerwartet auf den Fotos von Digitalkameras auftauchen. Was hat ihr Erscheinen zu bedeuten? Welche Einflussnahme auf die sichtbare Welt steht dahinter? Nun wird endlich ernsthaft darüber geforscht, und d...

2,395円 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. The issue is of great interest in fundamental physics and cosmology today, from both the perspective of gravitati...