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 Cosmological Inflation and Large-Scale Structure
Enormous progress has been made in inflationary cosmology in the past few years and this book is the first to provide a modern and unified overview of the subject. Coverage examines every aspect of inflationary cosmology and carefully compares predictions with the latest observations, including those of the cosmic microwave background, the... |  |  Modern Cosmology
Modern Cosmology begins with an introduction to the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric, including careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. From this starting point, the reader is introduced to perturbations about an FRW universe: their... |  |  Everything Forever: Learning To See Timelessness
Everything Forever is a highly original book about time, about the future, about the evolution of order and complexity presently taking place in the universe. In a deeply insightful poetic style Giorbran lays out the foundation of the timeless realm, extending the ideas of both David Bohm and Stephen Hawking by literally creating a visual... |
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 Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the creatures of Milton's narrative, through which he sets the... |  |  |  |  The Cosmic GiftAn Indian research submarine was exploring the ocean-bed off the coast ofParson's Pygmalion Point, the southern -most tip ofI ndia. Its young Captain, Uttarna, and his crew gazed ent ranced at the strange world under water , strangely lit here and there with many-shaped coral reefs , amidst which innumerable varieties ofcolo urful fish and... |
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 New Theories of Everything"A fascinating journey."--Kirkus Reviews "He acknowledges the limitations of seeking a formula to describe the emotional aspects of experience and the necessity of incorporating these variables into the long-sought-after theory of everything."--Science News "Recommended for general readers; lower-division... |  |  |  |  The Harvest of a Century: Discoveries in Modern Physics in 100 EpisodesPhysics was the leading science of the twentieth century and the book retraces important discoveries, made between 1895 and 2001, in 100 self-contained Episodes. Each is a short story of the scientists involved, their time and their work. Together, they formed a mosaic of modern physics: formulating relativity and quantum mechanics, finding the... |
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