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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2006 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Brian Greene bring together 25 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists and writers. Topics of interest to an...
author: Brian Greene, editor |
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Big Bang - The Story of the UniverseClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Explores the Big Bang, an event that not only created our Universe, but the very fabric of space and time. Creation of matter, birth of the Milky Way, the scale of space, and looks into the far futur...
author: Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest |
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Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous LegacyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Reveals the science of the cosmos through the scientists that study it, the thrilling scientific discoveries, historical account and personal insight.
author: Kip S. Thorne |
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ClockClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Part of the "Turning Point Inventions" series that focuses on the important inventions we often take for granted and how they have affected our lives. This book focuses on the history of time measure...
author: Trent Duffy |
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Close Encounters - Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space TelescopeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Describes what scientists have been able to deduce about the nature of our solar system and the universe based on data collected by the Hubble telescope. Since being repaired in 1993, the telescope h...
author: Elaine Scott |
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Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of TimeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An original and engaging historical account of the advent of twentieth-century physics.
author: Peter Galison |
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Einstein's Dreams: A NovelClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An adventure into the mind of young Albert Einstein through imaginings of his dreams about time when he was working as a patent clerk by day and developing his five world-changing theories of 1905: Qu...
author: Alan Lightman |
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Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the Sounds of Space-TimeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Traces the development of Einstein?s theory of general relativity and explores what physicists have learned about gravity waves in the decades since Einstein first proposed their existence. Looks at...
author: Marcia Bartusiak |
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Genius - A Photobiography of Albert EinsteinClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Compelling biography of Einstein, from his childhood in Germany through his life in the U.S. His family life, school years, and years of scientific research are profiled. Einstein formulated theori...
author: Marfe |
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Hollywood Science - Movies, Science & the End of the WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Science fiction films can be an exciting introduction to the workings of science and technology, exploring a range of complex topics in accessible ways, but "Hollywood science" can be erroneous, disto...
author: Sidney Perkowitz |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2006 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Brian Greene bring together 25 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists and writers. Topics of interest to an...
author: Brian Greene, editor |
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The ClockClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Part of the "Turning Point Inventions" series that focuses on the important inventions we often take for granted and how they have affected our lives. This book focuses on the history of time measure...
author: Trent Duffy |
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