1,399円 “Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”ーThe Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around ...

496円 Astronomy is the science which treats of the heavenly bodies. As such bodies we reckon the sun and moon, the planets (of which the earth is one) and their satellites, comets and meteors, and finally the stars and nebulae. We have to consider in Astronomy: (a) The motions of these bodies, both r...

13,266円 Fully updated throughout, including revised illustrations and new images from NASA missions, this new edition provides an overview of Earth's history from a planetary science perspective for Earth science undergraduates. Earth's evolution is described in the context of what we know about other pl...

12,071円 This new text surveys a series of fundamental problems in astrophysics, both analytically and computationally, for advanced students in physics and astrophysics. The contents are supported by more than 110 class-tested Mathematica® notebooks, allowing rigorous solutions to be explored in a visual...

11,276円 This extensively illustrated book presents the astrophysics of galaxies since their beginnings in the early Universe. It has been thoroughly revised to take into account the most recent observational data, and recent discoveries such as dark energy. There are new sections on galaxy clusters, gamm...

1,867円 **“Ann Druyan has unearthed a treasure. It is a treasure of reason, compassion, and scientific awe. It should be the next book you read.*” ー*Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith “A stunningly valuable legacy left to all of us by a great human being. I miss him so.*” ー*Kurt Vonnegut Carl Sagan...

14,939円 The standard starting point in cosmology is the cosmological principle; the assumption that the universe is spatially homogeneous and isotropic. After imposing this assumption, the only freedom left, as far as the geometry is concerned, is the choice of one out of three permissible spatial geomet...

362円 What would be the truth value of the statement, "Time has no beginning?" What existed a minute before the beginning of time? Are the past and the future alike? We know about fundamental particles near us. But beyond our universe, quadrillions of light years beyond the farthest heavenly body that ...

2,177円 David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature. As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make...

496円 In this book we explore great cosmic mysteries still beyond the reach of established science:         What came before our universe?         How was our universe created?         Is our uni...

1,657円 About the book:The entire knowledge and practices that exist in the world today fall into either the Old Cosmology which is a religious or spiritual view of the world, or the New Cosmology which is a scientific or material view of the world. The New Cosmology culminates in the kind of universe co...

6,076円 The author describes the current state of the art in the theory of invariant random fields. This theory is based on several different areas of mathematics, including probability theory, differential geometry, harmonic analysis, and special functions. The present volume unifies many results scatte...