Astrophysicist
Pulitzer: A Life
Pulitzer: A Life
Wiley | 2001 | ISBN: 0471332003 | Pages: 464 | PDF | 4.34 MB
“The best account…. Superb insight.” –The Times (London)
“Denis Brian’s convincing picture…only makes our wonder grow at Einstein’s sublime achievements.” –The Washington Post
“Does much to reveal the man behind the image…. Brian’s intimate work proves that in literature, as in science, [...]
The Prophet and the Astronomer: Apocalyptic Science and the End of the World
The Prophet and the Astronomer: Apocalyptic Science and the End of the World
W. W. Norton & Company | 2003 | ISBN: 0393324311 | Pages: 304 | PDF | 5.08 MB
“Tracing our contemplation of the cosmos from the big bang to the big crunch” (The New Yorker), Marcelo Gleiser explores the shared quest of ancient prophets [...]
Surfing through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons
Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN 0195130065 | 1999-08-16| PDF | 272 pages | 15.46 MBDo a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, Surfing Through Hyperspace, you need not be [...]
Cosmic Catastrophes: Exploding Stars, Black Holes, and Mapping the Universe
Cambridge University Press; 2 edition english 0521857147 339 pages January 22, 2007 PDF Supernovae occur when a star blows up: in its death throes, a star gone supernova “becomes as bright as an entire galaxy.” University of Texas astrophysicist Wheeler is one of the world’s experts on such stellar explosions and the forces behind [...]
Stellar Alchemy: The Celestial Origin of Atoms
Cambridge University Press | ISBN 0521821827 | 2003-08-25 | PDF | 256 pages | 2.38 MBWhy do the stars shine? What messages can we read in the light they send to us from the depths of the night? Nuclear astrophysics is a fascinating discipline, and enables connections to be made between [...]