Cosmology & The Universe

Contemporary science presents us with the remarkable theory that the universe began to exist about fifteen billion years ago with a cataclysmic exp...

The authors of this volume have been intimately connected with the conception of the Big Bang model since 1947. Following the late George Gamov's i...

In The World as Idea Charles P. Webel presents an intellectual history of one of the most influential concepts known to humanity—that of "the world...

This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history o...

Is there any connection between the vastness of the universes of stars and galaxies and the existence of life on a small planet out in the suburbs ...

General Relativity has passed all experimental and observational tests to model the motion of isolated bodies with strong gravitational fields, tho...

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 i...

“This book will provide readers with a greater awareness of the spirit of curiosity and inquiry that lies at the heart of the Buddhist tradition, ...

One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he del...

This collection of seventeen essays explores the implications of quantum cosmology regarding God’s action in the world. The result is a profound co...

Recent advances in the understanding of star formation and evolution have been impressive and aspects of that knowledge are explored in this volume...

Recent advances in the understanding of star formation and evolution have been impressive and aspects of that knowledge are explored in this volume...

From the bestselling author of The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos takes us on an irresistible and revelatory journey thr...

This witty and amusing exploration of the physical universe explains fundamental concepts in language that is clear to anyone with little or no sci...

  The spectacular sequel to Ajay and the Mumbai Sun, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize!  Ajay's wish has c...

Written by an award-winning cosmologist, this brand new textbook provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with coverage of the very la...

This book provides a comprehensive, critical study of the oldest and most famous argument for the existence of God: the Cosmological Argument. Prof...

General relativity and quantum mechanics have become the two central pillars of theoretical physics. Moreover, general relativity has important app...

This book is a collection of contributions examining cosmology from multiple perspectives. It presents articles on traditional Native American and ...

Time is an illusion. Although the laws of physics create a powerful impression that time is flowing, in fact there are only timeless 'nows'. In THE...

A stunning collection of poetry on feminism, trauma, survival and empowerment.You cannot burn awayWhat has always been aflameWILD EMBERS explores t...

Three key aspects of quantum gravity are considered in this book: phenomenology, potential experimental aspects and foundational theory. The phenom...

Is there anybody out there? Is ET trying to phone home? In the past decade or so, astrobiology has come of age. Once regarded as a laughing stock -...

Most well-read, but non-scientific, people will have heard of the term “Big Bang” as a description of the origin of the Universe. They will recogni...

Astrobiology - which studies the intimate relationship between life and the cosmos - is a fast-growing field that touches on aspects of cosmology, ...

This book describes some of the frontier problems of cosmology: our almost total ignorance of what the Universe is made up of, the mystery of its o...

Cosmology, the study of the universe, arouses a great deal of public interest, with serious articles both in the scientific press and in major news...

This book offers a study of the three evolutions in a circle (cosmos, life, and knowledge) with the aim of discussing human social behavior, a meta...

Current anthropology uses expressions such as 'society as a whole', 'socio-cosmic relations', 'spatiotemporal extension', 'global ideology', and 'c...

This volume contains contributions to the workshop, which was largely focused on the strong coupling gauge theories in search for theories beyond t...

Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has made important theoretical contributions to gravitational theor...