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    Eclipse & Revelation

    Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts

    Unabridged

    13 hours 32 min

    Two questions guide this seven-year project: First, how can we approach the phenomenon, representation, and interpretation of total solar eclipses? Second, how can we heal the historical divide separating the natural sciences from the humanities, arts, history, music, and theology?The result of this interdisciplinary investigation into eclipses is an exciting look behind the scenes—into labs, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soft Matter

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Tom McLeish ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Soft Matter science is concerned with soft materials such as polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, and foams, and has emerged as a rich interdisciplinary field over the last 30 years. Drawing on physics, chemistry, mathematics and engineering, soft matter links fundamental scientific ideas to everyday phenomena. One such example is 'polymers', encountered in plastic materials and melted cheese, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Let there be Science

    Why God loves science, and science needs God

    Throughout history, scientists have made discoveries and tested hypotheses that have revolutionised the way that we see the world. Our industry has been shaped by the discovery of electricity and the invention of machines; our understanding of the world has deepened as we have had gravity and the magnetic forces that govern the earth explained to us.Century after century, big questions about our ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Faith and Wisdom in Science

    by Tom McLeish ...
    "Can you Count the Clouds?" asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature-questions from the Old Testament Book of Job. Tom McLeish takes a scientist's reading of this ancient text as a centrepiece to make the case for science as a deeply human and ancient activity, embedded in some of the oldest stories told about human desire to understand the natural ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Science, Religion, and the Human Future

    Conflict, Collusion, and Consequences

    Science, Religion, and the Human Future: Conflict, Collusion, and Consequences demonstrates that the myth of an inevitable conflict between science and faith is based on a misunderstanding of history, with potentially adverse consequences for human futures. The work focuses first upon ancient, medieval and Islamic scholars and the intimate connections they made between theology and the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Brilliant Blunders

    From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

    by Mario Livio ...
    Drawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery.Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein all made groundbreaking contributions to their fields—but each also stumbled badly. Darwin’s theory of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Galileo's Finger : The Ten Great Ideas of Science

    The Ten Great Ideas of Science

    by Peter Atkins ...
    Any literate person should be familiar with the central ideas of modern science. In his sparkling new book, Peter Atkins introduces his choice of the ten great ideas of science. With wit, charm, patience, and astonishing insights, he leads the reader through the emergence of the concepts, and then presents them in a strikingly effective manner. At the same time, he works into his engaging ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Quantum Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain unsettled 75 years after the initial discoveries. The main text makes no use of equations, but ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • What a Wonderful World

    One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff

    by Marcus Chown ...
    With wit, colour and clarity, What A Wonderful World quickly and painlessly brings us up to speed on how the world of the 21st century works. From economics to physics and biology to philosophy, Marcus Chown explains the complex forces that shape our universe.Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Atkins ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas or the cooling of a hot metal, to the unfolding of a thought in our minds and even the course of life itself, everything is governed by the four Laws of Thermodynamics. These laws specify the nature of 'energy' and 'temperature', and are soon revealed to reach out and define the arrow of time itself: why things change and why death must come.In this Very ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Chemistry

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Atkins ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Most people remember chemistry from their schooldays as largely incomprehensible, a subject that was fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly, and so far removed from the real world of events and pleasures that there seemed little point, except for the most introverted, in coming to terms with its grubby concepts, spells, recipes, and rules. Peter Atkins wants to change all that. In this Very ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Nothing: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Frank Close ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our very latest discoveries and why they can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos.Frank Close tells ... Read more

    $7.99 USD