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Supernovae and Life--the Cosmic Connection
Focusing on the relationship between the universe and the Earth and presenting a history of the scientific study of astronomy, the authors discuss the...
A Mind-expanding Trip to Infinity and Back
Explores many examples of big numbers which measure in two directions: large and small....
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A Life in Science
One hundred years on from his birth, and 30 since his death, Richard Feynman's discoveries in modern physics are still thoroughly relevant. Magnificen...
Supernovae and Life-- the Cosmic Connection
The Gribbins relate the developments in 20th-century astronomy that have led to the shattering realization that all life is made of stardust scattered...
Hooke, Halley, & the Birth of Science
The authors of Ice Age “present a well-documented argument that [Newton] owed more to the ideas of others than he admitted” (Kirkus Reviews). Robe...
"John and Mary Gribbin tell the remarkable story of how we came to understand the phenomenon of Ice Ages, focusing on the key personalities obsessed w...
88 Great Ideas in Science
"How big is infinity? How small is an electron? When will the Sun destroy the Earth? How fast is a nerve impulse in your brain? Why can't you see insi...
Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA
The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. The idea of evolution had...
A Mind-Expanding Trip to Infinity and Back
Measuring the Size of the Universe
Award-winners Mary and John Gribbin unravel the history of modern astronomy. How far is it to the edge of the Universe? It is less than eighty years s...
With an Introduction by Philip Pullman
The amazing true science behind the fiction of His Dark Materials, ideal for fans of the original trilogy and The Book of Dust, with an introduction b...
Drawing on string theory and space-time, quantum physics and chaos theory, award-winning science authors Mary and John Gribbin reveal how Pullman's 'H...
In Search of the Doomsday Asteroid
Fire on Earth reveals that comets have been a continuing problem throughout geological time. It examines the controversial claims that there are 'peri...
Explains the nature of time, and discusses time measurements, the origin and development of life and the universe, the possibility of time travel, and...
Covers time, space, measurement, the structure of the universe, the theory of relativity, black holes, quantum mechanics, and string theory....
In Search of Gaia
In 1972, when James Lovelock first proposed the Gaia hypothesis--the idea that the Earth is a living organism that maintains conditions suitable for l...
Climate and Human Origins
Many of the themes developed in this book were first aired by John Gribbin as a BBC series of the same title in 1988. The authors present evidence tha...
The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast
The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather ForecastThe name of Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle, is forever linked...
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the first scientist in the modern use of the term. Instead of relying on the works of Aristotle, he actually carried o...
Charles Darwin was the epitome of the Victorian gentleman amateur scientist, living entirely off inherited wealth and the income from his books. At th...
Everybody knows the names of the great scientists, but how many of us know anything about their work, let alone their private lives? This easy-to-read...
The definitive scientific icon of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein is remember for one equation, E=mc2, and the image of a white-haired, pipe-sm...
An exploration of time and space covers biospace, black holes, and other topics....
1905, Albert Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity
2005 marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein's three papers which were the basis for the Theory of Relativity, and that are referred to in the science...
1915 and the General Theory of Relativity
One of the world's most celebrated science writers reveals the origins of Einstein's General Theory—and provides a greater understanding of who Eins...
The Irrepressible Life of James Lovelock and Gaia
Jim Lovelock is best known as the 'father' of Gaia theory, which is established as the most useful way of understanding the dramatic changes happening...
How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley
"Isaac Newton is heralded as the father of British science and regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time, but would we even remember him ...
A Beginner's Guide
The result, Planet Earth: A Beginner’s Guide, is an expedition into the origins, evolution, and workings of our home planet in which John Gribbin do...
The Many Lives of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that “Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Count Rumford are the greatest minds that America has produc...
Covering an epic sweep of science, from the Greek philosophers right through to Einstein and his groundbreaking work, Mary and John Gribbin have writt...
A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments – epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond....