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A Portable History of the Universe
by Christopher Potter
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by Bruce Watson
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsAlthough lasers now perform everyday miracles, light retains its eternal allure. "For the rest of my life," Einstein said, "I will reflect on what light is." Light explores and celebrates such curiosity.
by Margaret Lazarus Dean
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsWinner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known it.
by Neil Shubin
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsFrom one of our finest and most popular science writers comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us?
by Walter Isaacson
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsBy the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available.
by Brian Greene
Published Feb 2005
Read ReviewsSpace and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past?
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Published Sep 2004
Read ReviewsThe ultimate journey to discover how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since.
by Stephen Hawking
Published Nov 2001
Read ReviewsUnravels the mysteries of the major breakthroughs that have occurred since the release of A Brief History of Time and conveys the excitement felt within the scientific community as the secrets of the cosmos reveal themselves.
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