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Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In the years since the publication of Hawking's A Brief History of Time, readers have repeatedly told Hawking of their great difficulty in understanding some of the book's most important concepts. This is the reason for A Briefer History: his wish to make its content more accessible to readers--as well as to bring it up-to-date with the latest scientific observations and findings. Purely technical concepts, such as the mathematics of chaotic boundary...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023].
Description
Three of the most important words in science are “I don't know.” Not knowing implies a Universe of opportunities--the possibility of discovery and surprise. Our understanding of science has advanced immeasurably over the last five hundred years, yet many fundamental mysteries of existence persist: How did our Universe begin? How big is the Universe? Is time travel possible? What’s at the center of a black hole? How did life on Earth arise? Are...
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Earth. The Final Frontier
Contrary to popular belief, Earth is not an insignificant blip on the universe's radar. Our world proves anything but average in Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards' The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery.
But what exactly does Earth bring to the table? How does it prove its worth among numerous planets and constellations in the vastness of the Milky Way? In The Privileged Planet,...
68) Deep field
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Scientific advances have led to new discoveries and new understandings of how our universe works. But there is still a lot that reamains undiscovered. Space is full of mysteries. The James Webb Space telescope is doing its part to solve at least some of them. Never-before-seen sights, like baby stars, systems of space dust, and planets that could possibly support life are only a few of the secrets being revealed by this amazing piece of technology....
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"From one of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals, a radical new view of the nature of time and the cosmos What is time? This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the fundamentals of the universe. All of the mysteries physicists and cosmologists face--from the Big Bang to the future of the universe, from the puzzles of quantum physics to the unification of forces...
71) The universe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Examines the origin, structure, and workings of the universe, including galaxies, stars, dark matter, light years, black holes, and other aspects, and describes space exploration from ancient astronomy to modern probes.
Author
Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 14
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Pop quiz! You are on the roof of a skyscraper. Every floor of that building has nasty things that just don't like you. And you really need to get to the basement. Whaddaya do?! (And no, you can't just join the B-Team and fly away in their glamorous new spaceship.) Think quick, chico, because the multiverse is getting worse!"--Provided by publisher
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life-drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's all going to end. He considers parallel universes, the fine-tuning of the cosmos for life, what forms extraterrestrial life might take, and the likelihood of life on Earth...
79) Our nest
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A rhymed view of the interrelatedness and belonging of all things and creatures in the universe, from the stars, to the sea, to a mouse, to a child.
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