| 1. |  | A Brief History of Time
from Bantam
Price: $21.28
Customer Review:
Very informative and fun to read. Gets a little hard to understand at times because what Hawking is trying to explain is not trivial at all, but he does a great job at explaining it. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Nightwatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe
from Firefly Books
Customer Review:
An absolutely wonderful book; however, the numerous printing imperfections encountered (odd smudges, smears, and stains) have significantly detracted from the reading experience.
The book states that it was printed in China and it shows--really bad for a new book.
Perhaps whoever printed... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
from W. W. Norton & Company
Price: $13.57
Customer Review:
This is a tour de force of explaining the great effort to unified all fields of physics through the superstring theory. Needless to say, it is an extremely difficult subject and requires a great deal of technical knowledge and imagination to understand. Compounding that difficulty is the fact that... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
from Vintage
Price: $11.53
Customer Review:
I have read many general treatments of quantum theory and cosmology (including books by Einstein, Feynman, Hawking and many others, including previous books by Brian Greene) and in my opinion this is the best of the lot. Other books (especially those by Hawking) tell you what the current ideas are... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | A Briefer History of Time
from Bantam
Price: $12.24
Customer Review:
I bought this book at a great deal, and it arrived and was in wonderful condition. Perfect.
nothing wrong with it. A great book, and a great price! Thank you! a late review, but it was a great savings and I would buy again!
and since its a re-edit version ("briefer history of time")... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
from Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.
Price: $43.08
Customer Review:
I was very disappointed. The first chapter on dark matter and dark energy was indeed a baffling mystery of science. However, many of the 13 things were not so baffling or in a couple of cases not even serious phenomenon.
There is a Nobel Prize waiting for the person who figures out cold fusion,... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
from Anchor
Price: $10.85
Customer Review:
1. The Wilkinson Microwave anisotropy probe (WMAP) satellite was launched in 2001 giving an unprecedented view of the Universe. The WMAP satellite
2. The age of the Universe is 13.7 billion years.
3. The temperature of space is 2.7249 to 2.7251 degrees Kelvin.
4. 73 percent of the... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
from Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.
Price: $22.76
Customer Review:
This book explains well and understandably, why Prof. Hawking's view on black holes could not be entirely correct. Up to that point, I feel an interested layman who has had some exposure to physics (like me...)can follow the argument.
The way his argument leads to string theory still is... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Icarus at the Edge of Time
from Knopf
Price: $13.57
Customer Review:
Brian Greene brings science and mythology together in a simple, weighty and somewhat haunting story. Who knew relativity could send shivers down the spine? Somewhere between science, science fiction and space opera, this book is beautifully produced and creatively conceived. It's a tale to be read... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 10. | ![]() | The Demon-Haunted World
from Nova Audio Books
Customer Review:
First class by all means.
Yes! It is stimulation.
Yes! It is intelligent.
Yes! It is unusual.
And YES! It is the most intriguing book ever written in this arena.
Only a well-informed scholar could have written such an explosive book.
| 4.5 / 5.0
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