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The Gillett Model of the Real Universe

The Gillett Model of the Real Universe

$12.00 AUD
Come with me and explore the universe from the perspective of time, rather than spatially as we usually live our lives and see the world. Everything you see, everything beyond...
Spacewarps: Black Holes, White Holes, Quasars And The Universe

Spacewarps: Black Holes, White Holes, Quasars And The Universe

$12.00 AUD
Author: John GribbinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin Books, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn this accessible work of popular science, John Gribbin illuminates the...
The Physics-Astronomy Frontier

The Physics-Astronomy Frontier

$40.00 AUD
Author: Fred Hoyle And Jayant NarlikarBinding: HardbackPublished: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis academic text, "The Physics-Astronomy Frontier" by...
The Cosmic Frontiers Of General Relativity: A Layman's Guide To The New Universe

The Cosmic Frontiers Of General Relativity: A Layman's Guide To The New Universe

$20.00 AUD
Author: William J KaufmannBinding: SoftbackPublished: Peregrine Book - Penguin , 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book presents an accessible introduction to the complex principles of general relativity....
Ten Faces Of The Universe

Ten Faces Of The Universe

$25.00 AUD
Author: Fred HoyleBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann Educational Books, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Cloth in good condition. Dj with shelf wear. Clean text. This book presents a...
Cosmic Discovery: The Search, Scope And Heritage Of Astronomy

Cosmic Discovery: The Search, Scope And Heritage Of Astronomy

$15.00 AUD
Author: Martin HarwitBinding: SoftbackPublished: The Harvester Press, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded cover. This book presents a comprehensive overview of astronomical phenomena. It covers a...
Time: A Traveler's Guide

Time: A Traveler's Guide

$30.95 AUD$20.00 AUD
"Bucky Fuller thought big," Wired magazine recently noted, "Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." In his newest book, Cliff Pickover outdoes even himself, probing a...
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions

What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions

$35.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
The story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrums In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of...
The World Treasury Of Physics, Astronomy, And Mathematics

The World Treasury Of Physics, Astronomy, And Mathematics

$20.00 AUD
Author: Timothy FerrisBinding: SoftbackPublished: Little, Brown and Company, 1991Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive volume compiles significant works across the disciplines of physics, astronomy, and...
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy

On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy

$49.95 AUD$25.00 AUD
Presents classic works in physics and astronomy by such figures as Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton, along with commentary on how these works changed the course of science.
Time And Space

Time And Space

$15.00 AUD
Author: Time-Life BooksBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1990Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book examines the enigmatic concepts of time and space. It navigates through the...
Rama II

Rama II

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Author: Arthur C. Clarke And Gentry LeeBinding: HardbackPublished: Bantam, 1989Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsRama II continues the saga that began with Rendezvous with Rama, delving deeper...
Before the Big Bang: Our Origins in the Multiverse

Before the Big Bang: Our Origins in the Multiverse

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One of the world's most celebrated cosmologists reveals our origins in the multiverse One of the world's most celebrated cosmologists presents her breakthrough explanation of our origins in the multiverse....
A Briefer History of Time

A Briefer History of Time

$27.99 AUD$23.79 AUD
The science classic made more accessible and more concise. Illustrated. Updated with new research. Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific...
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

$45.00 AUD$17.50 AUD
Science, like most fields, is set up for men to succeed, and is rife with racism, sexism, and shortsightedness as a result. But as Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein makes brilliantly clear,...
Stephen Hawking: Friendship and Physics

Stephen Hawking: Friendship and Physics

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
An intimate, powerful account of Stephen Hawking and his universe An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius- not since Albert Einstein has a scientific...
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics

Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics

$43.99 AUD$37.39 AUD
An intimate portrait of Stephen Hawking -- the man, the friend, and the physicist An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius- not since Albert...
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics

Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics

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An intimate portrait of Stephen Hawking -- the man, the friend, and the physicist An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius- not since Albert...
On the Origin of Time

On the Origin of Time

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A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in...
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universe In this scientific tour de force, world-class physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is...
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose Until the End of Time is Brian...
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions

What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
The story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrums In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of...
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics

Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
A delightful intellectual adventure that brings together physics and ancient philosophy Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who...
The Order of Time

The Order of Time

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The number 1 bestseller from the superstar physicist hailed as 'the new Hawking' (Sunday Times) Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets...
Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Traveller's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars and Everything Far

Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Traveller's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars and Everything Far

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
*Fully revised and updated for the 21st century* The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an odyssey into the deepest,...
The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes

The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one? Our books, our movies-our imaginations-are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines,...
A Journey Through The Universe: A traveler's guide from the centre of the sun to the edge of the unknown

A Journey Through The Universe: A traveler's guide from the centre of

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
There's a whole universe out there...Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep...
Other Worlds

Other Worlds

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Author: P. C. W. DaviesBinding: HardbackPublished: London: Dent, 1980Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn 'Other Worlds', P. C. W. Davies explores the concept of parallel universes and...
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our...
Black Holes: The key to understanding the universe

Black Holes: The key to understanding the universe

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
A brilliant exploration of the most exotic objects in the universe by Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw. At the heart of the Milky Way, there is a distortion...
The Physical Principles of Astronautics

The Physical Principles of Astronautics

$140.00 AUD
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The Young Traveller in Space

The Young Traveller in Space

$90.00 AUD
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The Crab Nebula

The Crab Nebula

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Problems of Cosmogony and Stellar Dynamics

Problems of Cosmogony and Stellar Dynamics

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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

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Early Man and the Cosmos

Early Man and the Cosmos

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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation

$29.99 AUD$23.99 AUD
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,...
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe

Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe

$49.99 AUD$17.50 AUD
Author: Cathie Pelletier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1916, a nearly unknown German-born theoretical physicist named Albert Einstein had developed his theory of relativity, but hadn't yet been...
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

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The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities

The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities

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Author: Caleb Scharf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Short-listed for Physics World's Book of the Year The Sunday Times...
Orbital Futures: Selected Documents In Air Force Space History - Volume 2

Orbital Futures: Selected Documents In Air Force Space History - Volume 2

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The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report

The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report

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A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

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Big Bang

Big Bang

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Imperfect Creation: Cosmos, Life and Nature's Hidden Code

Imperfect Creation: Cosmos, Life and Nature's Hidden Code

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Marcelo Gleiser Format: Paperback...
The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe

The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe

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Author: William Poundstone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells the...
Cosmos Possible Worlds

Cosmos Possible Worlds

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Ann Druyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Based on National Geographic s internationally-renowned television series, this groundbreaking and visually stunning book explores how science and civilization grew up...
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I

Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I

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Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington Post Kirkus Review starred review; Publishers Weekly starred review; Booklist starred review The birth...