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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World by Lisa Randall Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Warped Passages, one of Time magazine's “100 Most Influential People in the World,” and one of Esquire's "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century," Lisa Randall gives us an exhilarating overview of the latest... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover 
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss Publisher Comments “WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?” Lawrence Krausss provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil Degrasse Tyson Publisher Comments Origin's explores cosmic science's stunning new insights into the formation and evolution of our universe- of the cosmos, of galaxies and galaxy clusters, of stars within galaxies, of orbiting planets, and of different forms of life. Distill s] complex... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World (Terry Lectures) by Nancy Ellen Abrams Review Winner of the 2012 Nautilus Gold Award for the science/cosmology category. The Nautilus Awards recognizes Books and Audio Books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living & positive social change, while at the same time they stimulate the... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of Time: The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition by Stephen W Hawking Publisher Comments #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... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality by Richard Panek Publisher Comments The epic, behind-the-scenes story of an astounding gap in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos. In the past few years, a handful of scientists have been in a race to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only 4 percent of it consists of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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How It Ends: From You to the Universe by Chris Impey Publisher Comments Although we may try to keep it tucked at the back of our minds, most of us are aware of our own mortality. But few among us know what science, with the help of insights yielded from groundbreaking new research, has to say about death on a larger scale... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Publisher Comments On the 10th anniversary of his death, brilliant astrophysisist and Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan's prescient exploration of the relationship between religion and science and his personal search for God. Carl Sagan is considered one of the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Forgotten Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (Great Discoveries) by George Johnson Publisher Comments At the beginning of the twentieth century, scientists argued over the size of the universe: was it, as the astronomer Harlow Shapley argued, the size of the Milky Way, or was there more truth to Edwin Hubble"s claim that our own galaxy is just one among... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Theories of the Universe (Complete Idiot's Guides) by Gary F Moring Publisher Comments You’re no idiot, of course. You know Heisenburg’s uncertainty principle has nothing to do with where you put your car keys. But modern cosmology is relatively complicated. The mystery of the universe definitely isn’t one we can flip to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos by Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams Publisher Comments A world-renowned astrophysicist and a science philosopher present a new, scientifically supported understanding of the universe, one that will forever change our personal relationship with the cosmos. For four hundred years, since early scientists... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Before the Big Bang by Brian Clegg Publisher Comments According to a recent survey, the most popular question about science from the general public was: what came before the Big Bang? We all know on some level what the Big Bang is, but we dont know how it became the accepted theory, or how we might know... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen W Hawking Publisher Comments At the very frontiers of science, professor Stephen Hawking invites you to be a fellow traveler on an extraordinary voyage through space-time. Full-color illustrations.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang by Adam Frank Publisher Comments The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universes “beginning” is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again—as altered as... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information by Vlatko Vedral Publisher Comments In Decoding Reality, Vlatko Vedral offers a mind-stretching look at the deepest questions about the universe--where everything comes from, why things are as they are, what everything is. The most fundamental definition of reality is not matter or energy,... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Cosmology the Science of the Univers 2ND Edition by Edward Harrison Publisher Comments Thoroughly revised and up-dated introduction to past and present cosmological theory.... (read more) List Price $110.00 Your price: $29.00 Used - Hardcover
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Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe by Martin Bojowald Publisher Comments In his introduction to a revolutionary theory of the cosmos, Martin Bojowald shows how the big bang theory may give way to the big bounce theory, which describes our universe as an eternal series of expansions and contractions, with no beginning and no... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bang! The Complete History of the Universe by Brian May and Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott Publisher Comments Who knows what Brian May was thinking when he wrote We Will Rock You for Queen? As a lifelong astrophysics aficionado, he may have been thinking about the origins of the universe. He's certainly been thinking about it lately. May, a freshly minted... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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When the Universe Took a U-Turn by Burra Gautam Sidharth Publisher Comments This book addresses some of the baffling questions encountered at the final frontier of space and time related to particle physics and cosmology in the context of recent iconoclastic observations and developments. When particle physics stagnated in the... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $78.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Before the Big Bang: The Prehistory of Our Universe by Brian Clegg Publisher Comments According to a recent survey, the most popular question about science from the general public was: what came before the Big Bang? We all know on some level what the Big Bang is, but we don't know how it became the accepted theory, or how we might know... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Hardcover
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