Stephen Hawking’s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time , introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to …
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, …
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the …
A collection of critical essays on Pynchon's "Gravity' s Rainbow"
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 …
The maximalist novel has a very strong symbolic and morphological identity. Ercolino sets out ten particular elements which define and …
A new edition of the New York Times bestseller—now a three-part Nova special on PBS-TV coming in Fall 2003: a …
From renowned physicist Fred Alan Wolf comes his enthralling and accessible exploration of parallel universes and the various theories surrounding …
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 …
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) and Carlo Collodi's Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) …
This book is an introduction to gravitational waves and related astrophysics. It provides a bridge across the range of astronomy, …
What is the origin of the universe? What was there before the universe appeared? We are currently witnessing a second …
Presents a history of scientific ideas, written not by historians of science, but by practicing scientists.
A major contribution to our understanding of the basic laws of the universe -- from the author of The Book …
Twenty years after Stephen Hawking's 9-million-copy selling A Brief History of Time, pioneering theoretical physicist Sean Carroll takes our investigation …
From Here to Eternity (1953) is one of the most controversial films of its time. Adapted from James Jones’s bestselling …
The Maximalist Novel sets out to define a new genre of contemporary fiction that developed in the United States from …
This book has grown out of lectures held at a summer school on cosmology, in response to an ever increasing …
What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? …
More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight …
