Excelente y asequible historia de la creación de nuestro universo en la que Gribbin, a través de la narración apasionada de todos los acontecimientos astrofísicos que han originado la aparición de vida en la Tierra, refu...
La asombrosa historia de FitzRoy (1805-1865), uno de los mejores navegantes del siglo XIX, cuya obra no solo contribuyó a que Charles Darwin desarrollara la teoría de la evolución, sino que mejoró la seguridad de todos los nave...
A comprehensive encyclopedia of quantum physics.Here in one volume, the award-winning science writer and physicist John Gribbin has provided everything you need to know about the quantum world -the place where most of the greatest scientific advances of...
Here in one volume, the award-winning science writer and physicist John Gribbin has provided everything you need to know about the quantum world -- the place where most of the greatest scientific advances of the twentieth century have been made.
In The Reason Why: The Miracle of Life on Earth John Gribbin shows what makes our planet so special explaining why the Fermi Paradox - the apparent absence of alien life - holds the key to our uniqueness.
During the middle and late 1960s, concern about the way the world might be going began to move out of the arena of academic debate amongst specialists, and became a topic of almost everyday interest to millions of people. Concern about mankinds disruption...
The most fascinating mysteries in modern physics seem to point us in that direction. As impossible as it seemsthat other universes came before ours, float alongside ours, or even mirror oursthe evidence is surprisingly convincing.
"Gribbin breathes life into the core ideas of complexity science, and argues convincingly that the basic laws, even in biology, will ultimately turn out to be simple."
Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which the chemical elements are made, around which planets form, and where on at least one of those planets intellig...
Navigates the frontiers of scientific discovery to tell us what we really know about the history of the universe. The author describes how the universe began, what the early universe looked like, how its structure developed, and what emerged to hold i...
From the bestselling author of Science: A History comes the enthralling story of a revolution that shook the world. Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war plague and fire; a world ruled by superstition and ignorance. A series of meetings of...
The story of science and the people who have contributed to its development. Puts key figures in their historical and social context - from Copernicus to Einstein. 14,000 copies sold in hardback. "Gribbin tells the story of science as a sequence of...