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  • Relativistic Cosmology

    Cosmology has been transformed by dramatic progress in high-precision observations and theoretical modelling. This book surveys key developments and open issues for graduate students and researchers. Using a relativistic geometric approach, it focuses on the general concepts and relations that underpin the standard model of the Universe. Part I covers foundations of relativistic cosmology whilst ... Read more

    $73.59 CAD

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  • The New Biography of the Universe

    May I introduce: the universe. Born 13.75 billion years ago. Constantly growing. Nearly empty. Electrically neutral. Poor in antimatter. Populated by 100 billion galaxies, including 130 sextillion stars with approximately just as many planets.Consisting of only 4 percent known forms of matter. The other 96 percent is made up of 23 percent dark matter and 73 percent dark energy. The home of black ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

    Facing the Ultimate Frontier

    A thought-provoking and humorous collection on NASA and the future of space travel.Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rare breed of astrophysicist, one who can speak as easily and brilliantly with popular audiences as with professional scientists. Now that NASA has put human space flight effectively on hold—with a five- or possibly ten-year delay until the next launch of astronauts from U.S. soil—Tyson’s ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

  • The Edge of Physics

    A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

    A tour of the exotic and remote outposts where scientists seek answers to the great mysteries: "A thrilling ride around the globe and around the cosmos." —Sean Carroll, author of From Eternity to HereIn The Edge of Physics, a science writer journeys to the ends of the Earth—visiting remote and sometimes dangerous places—in search of the telescopes and detectors that promise to answer the biggest ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aliens

    The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

    Edited by Jim Al-Khalili ...
    In these lively and fascinating essays edited by theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like.Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to E.T. (extraterrestrials); A.I. (artificial intelligence); and SETI ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Just Six Numbers

    The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe

    by Martin Rees ...
    How did a single "genesis event" create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble -- here on earth, and perhaps on other worlds -- into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins? What fundamental laws govern our universe?This book describes new discoveries and offers remarkable insights into these fundamental questions. There are deep connections ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Fortunate Universe

    Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos

    Over the last forty years, scientists have uncovered evidence that if the Universe had been forged with even slightly different properties, life as we know it - and life as we can imagine it - would be impossible. Join us on a journey through how we understand the Universe, from its most basic particles and forces, to planets, stars and galaxies, and back through cosmic history to the birth of the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Heart of Darkness

    Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe

    Series series Science Essentials
    "A new and welcome perspective on modern cosmology that any reader can easily grasp and appreciate . . . this is one of the very best books on the topic." — ChoiceHeart of Darkness describes the incredible saga of humankind's quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the universe. Over the past forty years, scientists have learned that two little-understood components—dark matter and dark energy ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Labyrinth of Time

    Introducing the Universe

    Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined. The puzzle at the centre of our knowledge of the universe is time. Michael Lockwood takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the nature of things. He investigates philosophical questions about past, present, and future, our experience of time, and the possibility of time travel. And he provides the ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • Constellation Myths

    with Aratus's Phaenomena

    Translated by Robin Hard ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.' The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arranged the stars into patterns for that purpose. In the third century BC Eratosthenes compiled a handbook of astral mythology in which the constellations were associated with figures from legend, and ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • The History of the Universe

    by David H. Lyth ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book gives an accessible account of the history of the Universe; not only what happened, but why it happened. An author of textbooks on the early Universe and inflation, David Lyth now explains both cosmology and the underlying physics to the general reader. The book includes a detailed account of the almost imperceptible structure in the early Universe, and its probable origin as a quantum ... Read more

    $47.39 CAD

  • Did You Ever Wonder...?

    by Tim McLachlan ...
    Did you ever wonder how we came to be here? How did the universe come into existence? How did the first people appear? This book takes only a few minutes to read but answers the most important questions a person could (should!) ask themselves as they work out our their meaning and purpose in life. Written with teenagers in mind but could provide an epiphany or two for adult readers too. ... Read more

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