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One hundred primary documents chronicle the history of astronomy, from early naked-eye celestial observation and cosmic mapping to the discovery of black holes, quasars, the Big Bang, and dark matter, in works by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Halley, Hubble, Einstein, and other great scientis[...]

An entertaining and informative illustrated guide that makes world history accessible, appealing, and funny.



"Obviously one of the great books of all time." -- Terry Jones.[...]

Here's a new installment of the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600, Volume II is hip, funny, and full of info. B & W illustrations.[...]

Beyond Einstein takes readers on an exciting excursion into the discoveries that have led scientists to the brightest new prospect in theoretical physics today — superstring theory. What is superstring theory and why is it important? This revolutionary breakthrough may well be the

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Two world-renowned scientists present an audacious new vision of the cosmos that steals the thunder from the Big Bang theory. Wall Street JournalThe Big Bang theorywidely regarded as the leading explanation for the origin of the universeposits that space and time sprang into being about 14 billion y[...]

From the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see someone and love someone for who they truly are.

Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed America s Fattest Teen. But no one s taken the time to [...]

ANew York TimesBestsellerFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see someoneand love someonefor who they truly are.Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed ';America's Fattest Teen.' But no one's [...]

Sir Isaac Newton famously said, regarding his discoveries, 'If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'. "The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life" describes, complete with fascinating biographical details of the thinkers involved, the ascent to the metaphorical should[...]

This book contains scores of intriguing puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet to important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus. Written by Carroll expert and well-known [...]

Do you believe in extraterrestrials? Among serious and speculative thinkers, scientists, philosophers, and even science fiction writers, there is an amazing variety of theories, and 50 of the best are reviewed in detail here.[...]

An accomplished professor of physics and mathematics unravels the complexities of superstring theory for the average reader in a lucid and entertaining account, using analogies from everyday life to explain the elegant underlying principles of the universe, in a new edtion of the best-selling study,[...]