Riverhead Books, February 2023. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2019. Hardcover. A new copy. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by revealing.....
Prometheus Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with a crease to the front flap. For many years the federal government funded the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), later popularized by Carl Sagan's novel Contact and the movie starring Jodie Foster. Though.....
Bantam, September 2005. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on.....
Oxford University Press, October 2012. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Newton's explanation of the natural law of universal gravity shattered the way mankind perceived the universe, and hence it was not immediately embraced. After all, how can anyone warm to a force that cannot.....
Oxford University Press, April 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Vintage, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about.....
Bantam, September 2010. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A whirlwind tour of fundamental physics and cosmology."--The Wall Street Journal "Fascinating . . . a wealth of ideas [that] leave us with a clearer understanding of modern physics in.....
AUP Popular Science, May 2014. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Every scientific fact was born as an opinion about the unknown - a hypothesis. Opinion gradually becomes fact as evidence piles up to support a theory. But what if there are two theories, each.....
Vintage, November 1993. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. A genius, a great mathematician once said, performs magic, does things that nobody else could do. To his scientific colleagues, Richard Feynman was a magician of the highest caliber. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic.....
University of Chicago Press, May 2023. Hardcover. A new copy. A tour of Mars in the human imagination, from ancient astrologers to modern explorers. Mars and its secrets have fascinated and mystified humans since ancient times. Due to its vivid color and visibility, its geologic kinship with Earth, and its.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in.....
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2017. Hardcover. Just like the title implies, Neil deGrasse Tyson condenses the essentials of the universe in this compact, quick to read book. Perfect for those of us that want to know, but simply do not have the time. A new copy. What is.....
National Geographic, August 2014. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. With images never published before, many with surprising colors and landscapes that make you want to spend your next vacation on Mars, this is the one and only book written in consultation with NASA scientists.....
The Folio Society, 2012. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 325 pages. This edition follows the text of the 2008 paperback edition by Quercus Publishing. First Folio Society edition (first printing). A previous owners bookplate to the half-title pages with permanent marker used to cover name offsetting to the front free endpaper.....
Riverhead Books, January 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." --The Times Magazine From the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and the forthcoming Helgoland, a......
Henry Holt and Co., September 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page one, Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New.....
Dutton, February 2022. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. For readers of Sean Carroll, Brian Greene, Katie Mack, and anyone who wants to know what theoretical physicists actually do. This Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have.....
Penguin Books, May 2015. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . . --Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). -- Also appeared on the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Independent, Wordstock, NCIBA, and Booksense bestseller lists -- Winner of the Christopher Award and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? "Now" has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. In Now, eminent physicist Richard A. Muller takes up the challenge.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that--the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is.....
Lopngman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. 373 pages. Introducing the Lindley Method, an early form of plant taxonomy. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with some scuffing to boards, a bookplate to front free endpaper, sticker residue from a previous book plate, a small.....
Henry Holt and Company, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. 243 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with stamp from San Fancisco Microscopical Society on title page; no dust jacket.