books about: hawking     books:       Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them5 reviews Clifford Pickover Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 From Archimedes to Hawking and Everyone Between This is Dr. Pickover's first scientific book since his A Beginner's Guide to Immortality and The Mobius Strip writings of 2006. After over a year of pursuing science fiction, the author has provided us with a work that was worth waiting for. This is his best yet. Archimedes to Hawking is no dry listing of scientific laws. Yes, it does have the important laws of science and the runners-up ...             George's Secret Key to the Universe29 reviews Stephen Hawking, Lucy Hawking Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2007 Captivating My 3.5 year old son is completely hooked on this fabulous book! We're plowing through it in just a few nights and he doesn't want it to end. I was floored when after the first night of my husband reading it to him he ran up to me excitedly the next morning and said "Mama, I know how stars are birthed, wanna hear about it?" And proceeded to give me a very sweet and stunningly accurate lecture on ...             The Universe in a Nutshell180 reviews Stephen William Hawking Bantam, 2001 Accessible Reading Coupled With Humor and Illustrations On the cover of Stephen Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell you can find, surprise, a picture of the universe in a nutshell. This cover illustration is typical of both the sense of humor Hawking employs and the helpful illustrations found in his work. Hawking's book is written for the average person who is interested in the science that has today's most educated and intelligent minds talking. ...             A Briefer History of Time64 reviews Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow Bantam, 2008 Non-Fiction for Science Fiction Lovers Excellent presentation of complex scientific theories. Stephen Hawking knows how to extract core principals and shape them into digestible morsels for his readers to consume and enjoy. The material is an update from his earlier Brief History of Time, and has the same cast of characters. If only he wrote fiction!             Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)82 reviews Kip S. Thorne W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 The science behind the movie "Contact" When Carl Sagan wanted to have his fictional herione from Contact travel in time, he turned to Kip Thorne. This book is Thorne's attempt to more fully explain the science of time travel. And in the process Thorne takes you to the prediction and discovery of black holes. First seriously suggested by the theories of Albert Einstein, a black hole is a star that has grown so massive (at ...             The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics17 reviews Leonard Susskind Little, Brown and Company, 2008 A new rewiring of the brain of physicsts This book tells the story of the "battle" between the author and Stephen Hawking regarding the latter claim that information is irretrievably lost in black holes. This story is the extraordinary account of the paradigm shift that has occurred in physics in the last 25 years. Moreover, the book reads like a novel thanks to the various analogies and the anecdotes concerning the lives and ...             A Brief History of Time350 reviews Stephen Hawking Bantam, 1998 Informative, fascinating, highly readable A fascinating, non-technical explanation of the modern concepts of theoretical physics. Full of wonder and surprise...makes us look at the world and universe with a fresh pair of eyes. A modern classic.             A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein2 reviews Stephen Hawking Running Press, 2007 Einstein's seminal works commented on by Stephen Hawking The most highly celebrated and recognized scientist alive today, Stephen Hawking has assembled, in this volume, highlights of Einstein's groundbreaking scientific works, such as his Special Theory of Relativity (1905) and his General Theory of Relativity (1915). Also included are Einstein's thoughtful views on politics, religion, the history and development of physics, and the interplay ...             A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME - From the Big Bang to Black Holes Stephen W Hawking Bantam Books, 1988             God Created The Integers25 reviews Stephen Hawking Running Press, 2005 Forget the flaws. Enjoy it. I just couldn't put this book down. I was so absorbed that I even missed my station and had to catch a train back. The biographies mixed with mathematical explanations and an outline of the significance of each work is brilliant. It gives one an insight into how context-dependent genius really is. I knew that the book had flaws because I read these reviews a while ago. But so what! You ...             The Future of Spacetime8 reviews Stephen William Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, ... W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 Is time-travel possible? ----------------------------------------------------------- This slim volume consists of six essays, based on talks presented at the Kipfest [note 1] on the occasion of Kip Thorne's sixtieth birthday. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Physics at Caltech is best known to the general public for his 1988 wormhole "time machine" proposal, and indeed much of the book is taken up exploring the ...             Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking3 reviews William H. Cropper Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 What a wonderful book! I've picked up many books over the years telling the stories of great scientists, but this is the only book of this type that I couldn't put down. I am a degreed engineer, now working in computers, with physics as a hobby. The coverage of Thermodynamics, which I have studied extensively, was fascinatingly rich and accessible. The complexity of other topics, such as nuclear physics, of which I ...             The Illustrated On The Shoulders of Giants4 reviews Stephen Hawking Running Press, 2004 Physics! History! Math! It does not get any better than this. Plus the images are stunning.             A Brief History of Time and the Universe in a Nutshell2 reviews Stephen W. Hawking Bantam Dell Pub Group (P), 2007 Amazing - Easy to read The illustration are amazing !!!!. It really help you to understand better the concepts, I have read very few books with such ilustrations. At the same time, Stephen Hawking explains the concept in a very simple way that any non-scientific person can understand. I fully recommend this book. Regards             Computer Resources for People with Disabilities: A Guide to Assistive Technologies, Tools and Resources for ...1 review Alliance for Technology Access Hunter House, 2004 This is the ONE If you are a person with disabilities or have some functional limitation, there are so many tools and resources available to help you achieve your potential. But where to start? Start with this book by the Alliance for Technology Access! From establishing a vision of how your life to be, to giving you step-by-step instructions for creating a plan, to educating you about technology tools that are ...             Falconry & Hawking6 reviews Phillip Glasier Batsford, 2006 Still a bible For anyone seriously considering falconry this is still THE bible albeit there are some ommissions from a US perspective. I have nearly 20 years experience and have read virtually every recognised book on the subject. This is still the book I refer back to the most. A classic.             The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe40 reviews Stephen Hawking Phoenix Books, 2007 Even if it is unofficial... Even if this product is unofficial, and unsanctioned by Stephen Hawking himself, I have to say I enjoyed it. I liked how its topics were so clearly delineated into thematically cohesive lectures, I liked that the author read them himself using a computer, and I loved the clear and organized way that Hawking laid out topics as complex and unfathomable as black holes and time and the beginning of ...             The Nature of Space and Time9 reviews Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose Princeton University Press, 2000 A debate between two strong personalities in physics The current understanding of the physical structure of the universe is bipolar. There is Einstein's theory of relativity, which explains the macroscopic behavior of the universe to many places to the right of the decimal point. At the other end of the size spectrum, there is the quantum theory of fields, which explains the observed behavior of fundamental particles to many places to the right of ...             On The Shoulders Of Giants16 reviews Stephen Hawking Running Press, 2003 A Promethean Bible "On the Shoulders of Giants" is a powerful book. It contains the seminal works of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein (translated into English) and thus, is an exhaustive account of their Promethean quest to see beyond the veil of appearance and into the hidden laws of the universe. In that sense it is quite revelatory, i.e., a "Promethean Bible" of sorts. And each of these ...             Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century3 reviews Tim Gallagher Houghton Mifflin, 2008 A compelling personal saga This is the best book I've read this year, and it came as a complete surprise. I had no previous interest in falconry, but I was familiar with Tim Gallagher's role in the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker and had enjoyed reading his book, THE GRAIL BIRD, which details the behind-the-scenes events that led to finding that iconic species. I had also seen Gallagher speak at Cornell once, ...              search for books archimedes, assistive, century, commonwealth, computer, disabilities, einstein, essential, everything, falconer, falconry, galileo, hawking, illusion, illustrated, integers, mechanics, nutshell, outrageous, persistent, physicists, quantum, resources, scientific, shoulders, spacetime, stubbornly, technologies, twenty-first, universe books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Facilitative Coaching: A Toolkit for Expanding Your Repertoire and ... leave a comment home  impressum - about us