Cosmology & The Universe

A Daily Telegraph and TLS Book of the Year 'An audacious tour of all that science can teach us' Edward O. Wilson Specialist scientific fields are...

In The Janus Point renowned physicist Julian Barbour presents a major new solution to one of the most profound questions in physics - what is time?...

Internationally renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the biggest philoso...

Why do we exist? For centuries, this question was the sole province of religion and philosophy. But now science is ready to take a seat at the tabl...

Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Using pleasingly paradoxical vignettes, known as Koans, that ...

Through more than fifty Koanspleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen traditionleading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader...

The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe--from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars--constitute only 5 percent of a...

This advanced undergraduate text introduces Einstein's general theory of relativity. The topics covered include geometric formulation of special re...

13.8 billion years of human and cosmic history summarised in one big book. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So with this brand-new hist...

Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of observational cosmology, this advanced undergraduate textbook enables students to use quantit...

Circumstellar dust, the astronomical dust that forms around a star, provides today's researchers with important clues for understanding how the Uni...

IAU Symposium 268 presents an overview of the most recent observational and theoretical research on the formation and evolution of light elements i...