Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) and Carlo Collodi's Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) …
Stephen Hawking’s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time , introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to …
What is the origin of the universe? What was there before the universe appeared? We are currently witnessing a second …
Twenty years after Stephen Hawking's 9-million-copy selling A Brief History of Time, pioneering theoretical physicist Sean Carroll takes our investigation …
The maximalist novel has a very strong symbolic and morphological identity. Ercolino sets out ten particular elements which define and …
Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest …
This is an ideas-led, exuberant documentary about the converging strands of a new era, the empowerments of cyber-technology, and the …
The cosmic microwave background radiation is the afterglow of the big bang: a tenuous signal, more than 13 billion years …
From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a …
This volume contains the seven papers presented at the meeting on "Black Holes and the Structure of the Universe" held …
Our universe seems strangely ''biophilic,'' or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, …
A concise, accessible introduction to this exciting and dynamic subject. * Adopts an approach grounded in physics rather than mathematics. …
Occupy Pynchon examines power and resistance in the writer’s post–Gravity’s Rainbow novels. As Sean Carswell shows, Pynchon’s representations of global …
When published in 1973, Gravity's Rainbow expanded our sense of what the novel could be. Pynchon's extensive references to modern …
Indian Science Fiction has evolved over the years and can be seen making a mark for itself on the global …
The phenomenon of consciousness includes mysterious aspects providing a basis for many spiritual doctrines (including religions) and psychological practices. These …
From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Man's view of the universe is widening today, as it did once before in the …
This book has grown out of lectures held at a summer school on cosmology, in response to an ever increasing …
This book is an introduction to gravitational waves and related astrophysics. It provides a bridge across the range of astronomy, …
What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? …
A collection of critical essays on Pynchon's "Gravity' s Rainbow"
A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and …
The classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened when the universe began, and how …
This book dispels common myths about electricity and electricity policy and reveals how government policies manipulate energy markets, create hidden …
Siegel advances creative paranoia, a mode of consciousness and a fiction-making technique, as the philosophical and aesthetic foundation of Pynchon's …
Until now, no single work has been devoted to both a scholarly understanding of the complexities of the Daoist tradition …
This thesis presents several significant new results that shed light on two major puzzles of modern cosmology: the nature of …
Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive and comprehensible account of the …
