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What do readers say about A Brief History of Time?
interesting and readablephysics based novelan easy to readvery entertaining prose#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking's book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin-and what made its start possible? Does time always flow fo... Read more about A Brief History of Time
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center o...
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What do readers say about Cosmos?
deep and clearly writtenextraterrestrial contact book' layman 'masterpiece of scientific writingRETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX
Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identit... Read more about Cosmos
The first men to be created and formed were called the Sorcerer of Fatal Laughter, the Sorcerer of Night, Unkempt, and the Black Sorcerer … They were endowed with intelligence, they succeeded in knowi...
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What do readers say about Packing for Mars?
living in spaceconversational and readablecombining science with humorconcise and funny verbiage"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) explores the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times bestseller.
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space ... Read more about Packing for Mars
First you remove your shoes, as you would upon entering a Japanese home. You are given a pair of special isolation chamber slippers, light blue vinyl imprinted with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Age...
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What do readers say about The Elegant Universe?
the ultimate theoryelegantly and coherentlyinformative and somewhat entertainingunfathomable and boring"[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another…In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." -George Johnson, The New York Times Book Review
In a rare blend of sc... Read more about The Elegant Universe
Calling it a cover-up would be far too dramatic. But for more than half a century—even in the midst of some of the greatest scientific achievements in history—physicists have been quietly aware of a d...
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What do readers say about The Right Stuff?
the mercury space programthe space programthe early space programthe american space programFrom "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)-a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book... Read more about The Right Stuff
"Jane, this is Alice. Listen, I just got a call from Betty, and she said she heard something's happened out there. Have you heard anything?" That was the way they phrased it, call after call. She pick...
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What do readers say about The Fabric of the Cosmos?
exceptionally clear and thought-inducingfascinating history of physicsthe elegant universetheoretical physics worldFrom Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.
Space and time form the very fabr... Read more about The Fabric of the Cosmos
None of the books in my father’s dusty old bookcase were forbidden. Yet while I was growing up, I never saw anyone take one down. Most were massive tomes—a comprehensive history of civilization, match...
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What do readers say about Pale Blue Dot?
a bit jumbledhistory of astronomical discoverysolemn scientific proseeloquent and impassioned"Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan's books."-The Washington Post Book World (front page review)
In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and ma... Read more about Pale Blue Dot
We were wanderers from the beginning. We knew every stand of tree for a hundred miles. When the fruits or nuts were ripe, we were there. We followed the herds in their annual migrations. We rejoiced i...
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What do readers say about The Big Short?
the subprime mortgage disasterentertaining and informativefirst person narrativesthe sub-prime mortgage crisisFeaturing an Exclusive Audio Interview with Michael Lewis
When the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizar... Read more about The Big Short
Eisman entered finance about the time I exited it. He’d grown up in New York City, gone to yeshiva schools, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania magna cum laude, and then with honors from Har...
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What do readers say about Moneyball?
a management bookbaseball and scoutingpretty funny/accurate/good reviewa really interesting readMoneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. But the real j... Read more about Moneyball
THE FIRST THING they always did was run you. When big league scouts road-tested a group of elite amateur prospects, foot speed was the first item they checked off their lists. The scouts actually carr...
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What do readers say about The Ghost Map?
easy to read styletaut and engrossingan illuminating historylively true-life medical mysteryA National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year from the author of Extra Life
"By turns a medical thriller, detective story, and paean to city life, Johnson's account of the outbreak and its mo... Read more about The Ghost Map
IT IS AUGUST 1854, AND LONDON IS A CITY OF SCAVENGERS. Just the names alone read now like some kind of exotic zoological catalogue: bone-pickers, rag-gatherers, pure-finders, dredgermen, mud-larks, se...
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