A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME by BANTAM $12.79
A First Course in General Relativity by Cambridge University Press $65.00
General relativity has become one of the central pillars of theoretical physics, with important applications in both astrophysics and high-energy particle physics, and no modern theoretical physicist's education should be regarded as complete without some study of the subject. This textbook, based on the author's own undergraduate teaching, develops general relativity and its associated...
The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science and Philosophy by Guy Murchie $15.95
"All life in all worlds" -this was the object of the author's seventeen-year quest for knowledge and discovery, culminating in this book. In a manner unmistakably his own, Murchie delves into the interconnectedness of all life on the planet and of such fields as biology, geology, sociology, mathematics, and physics. He offers us what the poet May Sarton has called "a good book to take to a desert...
Book of Nothing by VINTAGE (RAND)
The Nature of Space and Time [VHS] by Princeton University Press $390.00
Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united in a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos ever be combined? On this issue, two of the world's most famous...
The Theory of Celestial Influence: Man, the Universe and Cosmic Mystery by Shambhala $10.95
An exploration of the universe and man's place in it. Rodney Collin examines 20th-century scientific discoveries and traditional esoteric teachings and concludes that the driving force behind everything is neither procreation nor survival, but expansion of awareness. Collin sets out to reconcile the considerable contradictions of the rational and imaginative minds and of the ways we see the...
The Voice of the Earth by Simon & Schuster $23.00
An explanation of how humans' psychological and physical well-being is linked to the health of the planet probes such controversial issues as the Anthropic Principle and the Gaia Hypothesis. 20,000 first printing.
The Universal One by Univ of Science & Philosophy $100.00
Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science by C. Roy Keys Inc $30.00
Arp's book is a frontal assault on the standard model of the universe, replete with anecdotes and illustrations, including 8 pages of colour plates.