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Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)

Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)

by Gary Zukav

With its unique combination of depth, clarity, and humor that has enchanted millions, this beloved classic by bestselling author Gary Zukav opens the fascinating world of quantum physics to readers with no mathematical or technical background. "Wu Li" is the Chinese phrase for physics. It means"patterns of organic energy," but it also means "nonsense," "my way," "I clutch my ideas," and "enlightenment." These... (more)

The Theory of Everything

The Origin and Fate of the Universe

by Stephen W. Hawking

In physicist Stephen Hawking's brilliant opus, A Brief History of Time, he presented us with a bold new look at our universe, how it began, and how our old views of physics and tired theories about the creation of the universe were no longer relevant. In other words, Hawking gave us a new look at our world, our universe, and ourselves. Now, available for the first time in trade paperback, Hawking presents an even... (more)

Parallel Worlds

A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

by Michio Kaku

In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most tantalizing of all, the possibility that parallel universes may lay alongside our own. Kaku skillfully guides us through the latest innovations in string theory and its latest iteration, M-theory, which posits that our... (more)

The Ancestor's Tale

A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

by Richard Dawkins

With unparalleled wit, clarity, and intelligence, Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologists, has introduced countless readers to the wonders of science in works such as The Selfish Gene. Now, in The Ancestor's Tale, Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginnings of life four billion years ago.... (more)

Unweaving the Rainbow

Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

by Richard Dawkins

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don't lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often is more beautiful than the puzzle,... (more)

Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

by William Dunham

Praise for William Dunhams Journey Through Genius The Great Theorems of Mathematics "Dunham deftly guides the reader through the verbal and logical intricacies of major mathematical questions and proofs, conveying a splendid sense of how the greatest mathematicians from ancient to modern times presented their arguments." —Ivars Peterson Author, The Mathematical Tourist Mathematics and Physics Editor, Science News ... (more)

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

by Jung, Carl Gustav, C. G. Jung

Extracted from Volume 8. A parapsychological study of the meaningful coincidence of events, extrasensory perception, and similar phenomena.

Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (P.S.)

Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (P.S.)

by Simon Singh

A half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five cataclysmic minutes rather than having existed for all time; a skeptical scientist dubbed the maverick theory the Big Bang. In this amazingly comprehensible history of the universe, Simon Singh decodes the mystery behind the Big Bang theory, lading us through the development of one of the most extraordinary, important,... (more)

Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel (Great Discoveries)

Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel (Great Discoveries)

by Rebecca Goldstein

"A gem. . . . An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought." —Steven Pinker Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning— and brought him to the edge of madness. 4 illustrations.

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

by Desmond Morris

"A startling view of man, stripped of the facade we try so hard to hide behind." In view of man's awesome creativity and resourcefulness, we may be inclined to regard him as descended from the angels, yet, in his brilliant study, Desmond Morris reminds us that man is relative to the apes--is in fact, the greatest primate of all. With knowledge gleaned from primate ethnology, zoologist Morris examines sex,... (more)

Euclid's Window : The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace

Euclid's Window : The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace

by Leonard Mlodinow

Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions anyone might ask about space -- in the living room or in some other galaxy -- have been the hidden engine of... (more)

The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity

The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity

by Heinz R. Pagels

Serious readers shouldn't be put off by the New Age imprint on the esteemed physicist's last work. Focusing here on three main themes--the advent of the sciences of complexity, the research role of computers and the philosophy of science, the late Pagels "again demonstrates his gift for synthesizing complex scientific information into concise, readable prose," wrote PW. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information,... (more)

Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook : The View from Ad 1001

Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook : The View from Ad 1001

by Patrick Moore

In a year that will probably be remembered almost as much for books about the millennium as for the turn of 2000 A.D itself, Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook celebrates.....well, the wrong millennium! This thoroughly entertaining book - which is for everyone, not just astronomers - contains articles on King Alfred's chronological work, reviews of the new Star Catalogue by the Arab Al-Sufi and the latest edition... (more)

Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind

by Maitland Armstrong Edey, Donald C. Johanson

Polio: An American Story

by David M. Oshinsky

Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky paints a suspenseful portrait of the race for the cure, weaving a dramatic tale centered on the furious rivalry between Salk and... (more)

Dictionary of Theories

by Jennifer Bothamley

The Mobius Strip: Dr. August Mobius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology

The Mobius Strip: Dr. August Mobius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology

by Clifford A. Pickover

The road that leads from the Möbius strip — a common-sense-defying continuous loop with only one side and one edge, made famous by the illustrations of M.C. Escher — goes to some of the strangest spots imaginable. It takes us to where the purely intellectual enters our world: where our senses, overloaded with grocery bills, the price of gas, and what to eat for lunch, are expected to absorb really bizarre ideas.... (more)

A New Model Of The Universe

by P. D. Ouspensky

THIS 80 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: New Model of the Universe, by P. D. Ouspensky. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766108228.

Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved

Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved

by Robin J. Wilson

On October 23, 1852, Professor Augustus De Morgan wrote a letter to a colleague, unaware that he was launching one of the most famous mathematical conundrums in history--one that would confound thousands of puzzlers for more than a century. This is the amazing story of how the "map problem" was solved. The problem posed in the letter came from a former student: What is the least possible number of colors needed... (more)

Designing Tessellations : The Secrets of Interlocking Patterns

Designing Tessellations : The Secrets of Interlocking Patterns

by Jinny Beyer

Designing Tessellations opens the door for quilters to thousands of new and exciting patterns by showing them how to create tessellations--designs made up of the repeated use of seemingly complex but deceptively simple shapes that interlock perfectly to flow across a quilt. Inspired by artist M. C. Escher, Jinny Beyer introduces quilters to the fascinating world of symmetry and then clearly shows how to experiment... (more)

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by Gary Zukav

The Origin and Fate of the Universe

by Stephen W. Hawking

A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

by Michio Kaku

A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

by Richard Dawkins

Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

by Richard Dawkins

by William Dunham

by Jung, Carl Gustav, C. G. Jung

by Simon Singh

by Rebecca Goldstein

by Desmond Morris

by Leonard Mlodinow

by Heinz R. Pagels

by Patrick Moore

by Maitland Armstrong Edey, Donald C. Johanson

by David M. Oshinsky

by Jennifer Bothamley

by Clifford A. Pickover

by P. D. Ouspensky

by Robin J. Wilson

by Jinny Beyer