Summary: "Everything we now know about the universe--from the behavior of quarks to the birth of entire galaxies--has stemmed from scientists who've been willing to ponder the unanswerable. And with the advent of modern science, great minds have turned to testing and experimentation rather than mere thought as a way of approaching and grappling with some of the universe's most pressing and vexing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 523.1 INEKlein, Stefan
Summary: How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose—each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery—Stefan Klein uses everyday objects and events as a springboard to meditate on the beauty of the underlying science.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment colophon 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 KLETyson, Neil deGrasse
Summary: Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all--from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel. Describing the latest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 TYSMee, Nicholas.
Summary: This is a lively, inspiring beginner's guide to how the universe works. This book contains bite-sized chapters present the discoveries of modern physics, astronomy, and cosmology. It also has background stories of the research and researchers bring the science to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 MEECham, Jorge
Summary: "You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and your odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here. As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know. We all wonder, and deep down we all have the same big questions. Why can't I travel back in time? Where did the universe come from? What's inside a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 CHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 CHACham, Jorge.
Summary: Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore--there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson team up to explore everything we don't know about the universe, and while introducing the biggest mysteries in physics, they also helpfully demystify many complicated things we do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 CHAMcTier, Moiya
Summary: "After a few billion years of bearing witness to life on Earth, of watching one hundred billion humans go about their day-to-day lives, of feeling unbelievably lonely, and of hearing its own story told by others, the Milky Way would like a chance to speak for itself. All one hundred billion stars and fifty undecillion tons of gas of it. It all began some thirteen billion years ago, when clouds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 523.1 MCTSummary: Tyson looks at the most confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human. He attempts to answer all of your most pressing questions, from how the brain works to the physics of comic book superheroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STASummary: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson returns, bringing together a rare mix of potentially clashing personalities - celebrities, comedians and the worlds leading scientific experts - to explore a variety of cosmic and science topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STASummary: Tyson looks at the most confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human. He attempts to answer all of your most pressing questions, from how the brain works to the physics of comic book superheroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 STACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 523.1 TYSSutter, Paul M.
Summary: An astrophysicist presents an in-depth yet accessible tour of the universe for lay readers, while conveying the excitement of astronomy--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 SUTTrotta, Roberto
Summary: "Here's what it is about: For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. In the glow of today's artificial lighting, when even professional astronomers study the universe by staring at screens rather than through eyepieces, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos. Roberto Trotta is here to remind us: one of our species' most enduring and (literally) universal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023