Gendler, Christensen, and Malin - Treasures of the Southern Sky [pdf]

Treasures of the Southern Sky
Author: Robert Gendler, Lars Lindberg Christensen, David Malin

The book focuses on the dazzling beauty and wonder of the night sky, with engaging and easy to understand explanations of what the reader is seeing.

Treasures of the Southern Sky celebrates the remarkable beauty and richness of the southern sky in words and with world-class imagery. In part, a photographic anthology of deep sky wonders south of the celestial equator, this book also celebrates the human story of southern astronomy with an engaging and detailed history of key contributors to southern sky exploration. The accompanying text provides the reader with intriguing facts and useful information about the featured objects.

This coffee-table book depicts famous features of the southern sky, such as the Magellanic Clouds and the Tarantula Nebula, as well as the brilliant star cluster Pismis 24, the beautiful NGC 1532-1 pair of interacting galaxies and the radiant Toby Jug Nebula.

English | PDF| 190 pages  | 108.11 Mb

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Philip Plait - Death from The Skies: These are The Ways the World Will End [epub]

Death from The Skies: These are The Ways the World Will End
Author: Phil Plait

With wit, humor, and an infectious love of astronomy that could win over even the science-phobic, this fun and fascinating book reminds us that outer space is anything but remote. The scientist behind the popular website badastronomy.com, Philip Plait presents some of the most fearsome end-of-the-world calamities (for instance, incoming asteroids and planet-swallowing black holes), demystifies the scientific principles at work behind them, and gives us the odds that any of them will step out of the realm of sci-fi to disrupt our quiet corner of the cosmos. The result is a book that is both terrifying and entertaining?a tour of the violent universe we live in, written with an enthusiasm that every stargazer will appreciate.

English | 2009 | EPUB | 621 pages | 2.04 MB

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Julia Rothman, Matt Lamothe,& Jenny Volvovski - The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science [pdf]

The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science
Authors: Julia Rothman, Matt Lamothe,& Jenny Volvovski

A science book like no other, The Where, the Why, and the How turns loose 75 of today's hottest artists onto life's vast questions, from how we got here to where we are going. Inside these pages some of the biggest (and smallest) mysteries of the natural world are explained in essays by real working scientists, which are then illustrated by artists given free rein to be as literal or as imaginative as they like. The result is a celebration of the wonder that inspires every new discovery. Featuring work by such contemporary luminaries as Lisa Congdon, Jen Corace, Neil Farber, Susie Ghahremani, Jeremyville, and many more, this is a work of scientific and artistic exploration to pique the interest of both the intellectually and imaginatively curious.

English | 2012 | PDF | 168 pages | 259 MB

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Brian Clegg - Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe [mobi]

Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe
Author: Brian Clegg

In Dice World, acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes readers on an incredible trip around our random universe, uncovering the truths and lies behind probability and statistics, explaining how chaotic intervention is behind every great success in business, and demonstrating the possibilities quantum mechanics has given us for creating unbreakable ciphers and undergoing teleportation.

He explores how the ‘clockwork universe’ imagined by Newton, in which everything could be predicted given enough data, was disproved bit by bit, to be supplanted by chaos theory and quantum physics. Clegg reveals a world in which not only is accurate forecasting often impossible but probability is the only way for us to understand the fundamental nature of things.

Forget the clockwork universe. Welcome to Dice World, a unique portrait of a startlingly complex cosmos, from the bizarre microscopic world of the quantum to the unfathomable mechanics of planetary movements, where very little is as it seems

English | 2010 | MOBI | 405 pages | 1.20 MB

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