Skylanders Universe: The Complete Collection contains every single Skylander in one book! For the first time ever, Skylanders fans can look up their heroes from all three smash-hit video games, including SWAP Force! It includes character bios, battle cries and all 256 possible SWAP Force character c[...]

In a wonderful synthesis of science, history, and imagination, Gino Segre, an internationally renowned theoretical physicist, embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of how the fundamental scientific concept of temperature is bound up with the very essence of both life and matter. Why is the internal [...]

"A great read...Goldberg is an excellent guide."--Mario Livio, bestselling author of "The Golden Ratio"
Physicist Dave Goldberg speeds across space, time and everything in between showing that our elegant universe--from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies--is sha[...]

An accessible introduction to information theory and its relevance within modern scientific circles explains how theorists now believe that information is a fundamental element of the physical world and can offer new insights into the mysteries of physics, the nature of space and time, and the creat[...]

New York Times bestselling author, Neale Donald Walsch, presents wisdom from his celebrated Conversations with God trilogy and companion works. With gorgeous, original photography depicting nature's grandeur throughout, coupled with choice selections from Walsch's celebrated body of work, this beaut[...]

"Strong on science but just this side of poetry." --Nature A beautifully illustrated exploration of the principles, laws, and wonders that rule our universe, our world, and our daily lives, from the New York Times bestselling creator of Lost in Translation Have you ever found yourself wondering wha[...]

K. C. Cole's bestseller "provides fresh insights into the crucial role that mathematics plays" in our lives (San Francisco Chronicle). Mathematics, that breathtaking invention of ours that reveals the tiniest particles of matter and takes us to the outermost reaches of the cosmos, is found by many p[...]

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, [...]

Fred Hoyle was one of the most widely acclaimed and colourful scientists of the twentieth century, a down-to-earth Yorkshireman who combined a brilliant scientific mind with a relish for communication and controversy. Best known for his steady-state theory of cosmology, he described a universe wit[...]

`Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind Not by the sun's rays, nor the bright shafts of day, Must be dispersed, as is most necessary, But by the face of nature and her laws.' Lucretius' poem On the Nature of the Universe combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the great[...]

What does the future hold in store for the human race? Aliens from distant galaxies, telepathic horror, interstellar war, time-warps, the shriek of a rose, collision with an asteroid - the unknown lies around every corner, and the universe is a big place. These nine science-fiction stories offer pos[...]

In his conversational style, Anthony Zee examines the nature of gravity and its role in our universe. Zee starts from a birthday gift that Albert Einstein received on his seventy-sixth birthday that worked on the main principle in his theory of gravity. From there Zee leads the reader through the [...]