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Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization
by Vaclav Smil
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1999
Energy is the only universal currency. One of its many forms must be transformed into another in …

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Atoms of Silence: An Exploration of Cosmic Evolution
by Hubert Reeves
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1984
The great critical and popular acclaim that greeted the original French edition of Atoms of Silence has already …

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The Universe in Time
by Paolo Maffei
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1989
Italian astronomer Paolo Maffei invites us on a journey through time. The itinerary follows time’s arrow from the fireball of the Big …

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Blind Watchers of the Sky: The People and Ideas that Shaped Our View of the Universe
by Rocky Kolb
Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1996
Blind Watchers of the Sky tells the story of the people …

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The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins
by Alan H. Guth
Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 1997
The classic big bang theory is great at describing what happened after the …

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Chemical Evolution: Origins of the Elements, Molecules and Living Systems
by Stephen F. Mason
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991
Recent accounts of the chemical history of the universe have tended to emphasize either the …

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Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation
by John D. Barrow
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991
In books such as The World Within the World and The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, astronomer John Barrow has …

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The World Within the World
by John D. Barrow
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988
Do there really exist laws of Nature out there waiting to be discovered? How did this notion of laws of Nature …

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The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos
by Michael Rowan-Robinson
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999
How old is the universe? How far away are the galaxies and how fast are they travelling away from us? …

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Journeys to the Ends of the Universe: A Guided Tour of the Beginnings and Endings of Planets, Stars, Galaxies and the Universe
by C. R. Kitchin
Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1990
Journeys to the …