Cosmology & The Universe

Illustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the Solar Sys...

The growth of cosmology into a precision science represents one of the most remarkable stories of the past century. Much has been written chronicli...

“We create the Universe as much as it creates us.” — Stephen Hawking & Thomas Hertog How did the Universe begin? Will it ever end? The cosmos a...

How old is the universe? How far away are the galaxies and how fast are they travelling away from us? What do the atoms in our bodies, our very exi...

This book is about how big is the universe and how small are quarks, and what are the sizes of dozens of things between these two extremes. It desc...

Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the...

In The Infinite Cosmos Joseph Silk takes the reader on a tour of the universe, past, present, and future, showing how the very latest observations ...

A fascinating analysis of the most important work of occult philosophy in the 20th Century. Dion Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine is a foundational ...

This is the first comprehensive treatment of active galactic nuclei--the cosmic powerhouses at the core of many distant galaxies. The term active g...

Cosmology is a relatively new science, but cosmological questions are as old as mankind. Turning philosophical and metaphysical problems into probl...

This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythi...

Opinions on the large-scale structure of the early universe range widely from primeval chaos to a well-ordered mass distribution. P.J.E. Peebles ar...

In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenge...

An extraordinary discovery has recently shaken the foundations of Cosmology and Particle Physics, sparking a scientific revolution that has profoun...

Throughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of everything': highly ambitious attempts to understand nature in its totality. This a...

Why should there be anything at all? Why, in particular, should a material world exist? Bede Rundle advances clear, non-technical answers to these ...

A tight-knit, high-powered group of scientists and engineers spent eight years building a satellite designed, in effect, to read the genome of the ...

Is the universe infinite, or does it have an edge beyond which there is, quite literally, nothing? Do we live in the only possible universe? Why do...

Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates. Focusing on the scientific tradition of philosophy, ...

This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythi...

In Warped Passages one of the world's most exciting scientists gives us a glimpse into our future. Incredibly readable - and illustrated throughout...

Up to date and comprehensive in its coverage, Neutrinos in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology reviews the whole landscape of neutrino phy...

In Cosmic Numbers , mathematics professor James Stein traces the discovery, evolution, and interrelationships of the great numbers that define our...