Author: John Gribbin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300089141
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Recent breakthroughs in measuring the age of the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope are the subject of this book, written by a science writer who was a research astronomer involved in the discoveries. Illustrations.
The Birth of Time
Author: John Gribbin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300089141
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Recent breakthroughs in measuring the age of the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope are the subject of this book, written by a science writer who was a research astronomer involved in the discoveries. Illustrations.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300089141
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Recent breakthroughs in measuring the age of the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope are the subject of this book, written by a science writer who was a research astronomer involved in the discoveries. Illustrations.
A Time to Be Born
Author:
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 9780827610644
Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 9780827610644
Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Birth of Time
Author: John R. Gribbin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmochronology
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmochronology
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The Birth of Writing
Author: Robert Claiborne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780809412822
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780809412822
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Birth of Time
Author: John Gribbin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300083460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"Gribbin takes us through the history of cosmological discoveries, focusing in particular on the seventy years since the Big Bang model of the origin of the universe. He explains how conflicting views of the age of the universe and stars converged in the 1990s because scientists (including Gribbin) were able to use data from the Hubble Space Telescope that measured distances across the universe."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300083460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"Gribbin takes us through the history of cosmological discoveries, focusing in particular on the seventy years since the Big Bang model of the origin of the universe. He explains how conflicting views of the age of the universe and stars converged in the 1990s because scientists (including Gribbin) were able to use data from the Hubble Space Telescope that measured distances across the universe."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Objects of Time
Author: K. Birth
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137017871
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137017871
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization.
Origins
Author: Annie Murphy Paul
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743296621
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Paul presents an in-depth examination of how personalities are formed by biological, social, and emotional factors.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743296621
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Paul presents an in-depth examination of how personalities are formed by biological, social, and emotional factors.
Alive for the First Time
Author: David C. Needham
Publisher: Family Christian Press
ISBN: 9781893065260
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher: Family Christian Press
ISBN: 9781893065260
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Wrinkles in Time
Author: George Smoot
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061344443
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Astrophysicist George Smoot spent decades pursuing the origin of the cosmos, "the holy grail of science," a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. In his search he struggled against time, the elements, and the forces of ignorance and bureaucratic insanity. Finally, after years of research, Smoot and his dedicated team of Berkeley researchers succeeded in proving the unprovable—uncovering, inarguably and for all time, the secrets of the creation of the universe. Wrinkles in Time describes this startling discovery that would usher in a new scientific age—and win Smoot the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061344443
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Astrophysicist George Smoot spent decades pursuing the origin of the cosmos, "the holy grail of science," a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. In his search he struggled against time, the elements, and the forces of ignorance and bureaucratic insanity. Finally, after years of research, Smoot and his dedicated team of Berkeley researchers succeeded in proving the unprovable—uncovering, inarguably and for all time, the secrets of the creation of the universe. Wrinkles in Time describes this startling discovery that would usher in a new scientific age—and win Smoot the Nobel Prize in Physics.
D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation
Author: Melvyn Stokes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199887519
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the story that remains is fascinating: the longest American film of its time, Griffith's film incorporated many new features, including the first full musical score compiled for an American film. It was distributed and advertised by pioneering methods that would quickly become standard. Through the high prices charged for admission and the fact that it was shown, at first, only in "live" theaters with orchestral accompaniment, Birth played a major role in reconfiguring the American movie audience by attracting more middle-class patrons. But if the film was a milestone in the history of cinema, it was also undeniably racist. Stokes shows that the darker side of this classic movie has its origins in the racist ideas of Thomas Dixon, Jr. and Griffith's own Kentuckian background and earlier film career. The book reveals how, as the years went by, the campaign against the film became increasingly successful. In the 1920s, for example, the NAACP exploited the fact that the new Ku Klux Klan, which used Griffith's film as a recruiting and retention tool, was not just anti-black, but also anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish, as a way to mobilize new allies in opposition to the film. This crisply written book sheds light on both the film's racism and the aesthetic brilliance of Griffith's filmmaking. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the cinema.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199887519
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the story that remains is fascinating: the longest American film of its time, Griffith's film incorporated many new features, including the first full musical score compiled for an American film. It was distributed and advertised by pioneering methods that would quickly become standard. Through the high prices charged for admission and the fact that it was shown, at first, only in "live" theaters with orchestral accompaniment, Birth played a major role in reconfiguring the American movie audience by attracting more middle-class patrons. But if the film was a milestone in the history of cinema, it was also undeniably racist. Stokes shows that the darker side of this classic movie has its origins in the racist ideas of Thomas Dixon, Jr. and Griffith's own Kentuckian background and earlier film career. The book reveals how, as the years went by, the campaign against the film became increasingly successful. In the 1920s, for example, the NAACP exploited the fact that the new Ku Klux Klan, which used Griffith's film as a recruiting and retention tool, was not just anti-black, but also anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish, as a way to mobilize new allies in opposition to the film. This crisply written book sheds light on both the film's racism and the aesthetic brilliance of Griffith's filmmaking. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the cinema.