Author: Robert C. Ble
Publisher: University Science Book
Keywords: cosmos, discovering
Number of Pages: 750
Published: 1996-08-01
List price: $68.00
ISBN-10: 0935702679
ISBN-13: 9780935702675
Based on the very popular liberal arts course Bob Bless has taught at University of Wisconsin for over twenty years, this book provides a rich, historical approach to introductory astronomy. It is ideal for use in an introductory astronomy course for nonmajors. An Instructor’s Manual, test questions and transparencies are also available for adopting professors.
Author: Carl Sagan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: cosmos
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1985-10-12
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345331354
ISBN-13: 9780345331359
The best-selling science book ever published in the English language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today’s knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way.
Author: Witold Gombrowicz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: cosmos
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-10-10
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0300108486
ISBN-13: 9780300108484
Author: Giles Sparrow
Publisher: Quercus Books
Keywords: cosmos
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-01
List price: $39.65
ISBN-10: 1847241255
ISBN-13: 9781847241252
The magnificent vault of stars emblazoning Earth’s night skies are but an infinitesimal fraction of the hundreds of billions that inhabit our galaxy - and there are at least as many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in the Milky Way. Cosmos makes sense of this dizzying celestial panorama by exploring it one step at a time, illustrating the planets, moons, stars, nebulae, white dwarfs, black holes and other exotica that populate the heavens with some of science’s most spectacular photographs. The book opens with an orbital survey of planet Earth, before venturing into the
Author: Lee Smolin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: cosmos, life
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1999-03-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0195126645
ISBN-13: 9780195126648
Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before. Smolin posits that a process of self organization like that of biological evolution shapes the universe, as it develops and eventually reproduces through black holes, each of which may result in a new big bang and a new universe. Natural selection may guide the appearance of the laws of physics, favoring those universes which best reproduce. The result would be a cosmology according to which life is a natural consequence of the fundamental principles on
Author: Carl Sagan
Publisher: Universitat de barcelona
Keywords: cosmos
Published: 2007
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8447531317
ISBN-13: 9788447531318
Author: Dennis Danielson
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: cosmos, book
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2002-01-15
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0738204986
ISBN-13: 9780738204987
A sweeping account of humanity’s evolving vision of the universe, as viewed through the writings of the most exceptional thinkers in history. What is the cosmos? How did it come into being? How are we related to it, and what is our place in it? The Book of the Cosmos assembles for the first time in one volume the great minds of the Western world who have considered these questions from biblical times to the present. It is a book of many authors-Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Galileo are here, of course, in all their genius, but so are Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Jump Cannon (a "human
