Stephen Hawking
1) Black Holes
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
-- “It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science-fiction writers, but they are firmly matters of science fact.” For decades, Stephen Hawking has been fascinated by black holes. He believes that if we understood the challenges they pose to the very nature of space and time, we could unlock the secrets of the...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds. These observations...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Offers the renowned scientist's final thoughts on using science to address the most important challenges facing humanity.
"The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind. Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor....
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow, University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions-- Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?-- and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory," a collection of overlapping theories (including string theory) that fill in many (but not all) of the blank spots in quantum...
Author
Publisher
New Millennium Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A series of lectures by the renowned physicist reviews past ideas from Aristotle to Newton and Einstein's theories of gravity, the Big Bang, and black holes and explores quantum mechanics and the time and space proposition.
Author
Series
Princeton Science Library volume Isaac Newton Institute Series of Lectures
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
Presents essays based on lectures given by mathematics professors Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose in which they debate the foundations of quantum mechanics, discussing in mathematical and physical terms how to combine quantum theory with the theory of general relativity.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a range of topics in theoretical physics, from the theory of relativity to time travel, from supergravity to supersymmetry, from quantum theory to M-theory, from holography to duality, from superstring theory to p-branes, from black holes to the idea of multiple histories.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the years since the publication of Hawking's A Brief History of Time, readers have repeatedly told Hawking of their great difficulty in understanding some of the book's most important concepts. This is the reason for A Briefer History: his wish to make its content more accessible to readers--as well as to bring it up-to-date with the latest scientific observations and findings. Purely technical concepts, such as the mathematics of chaotic boundary...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
These thirteen essays and one extended interview broadcast in 1992, range from the autobiographical to the purely scientific. Building on his earlier work, Hawking discusses imaginary time, how black holes can give birth to baby universes, and scientists' efforts to find a complete unified theory that would predict everything in the universe.
11) My brief history
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Lavishly illustrated with rarely seen photographs, this concise, witty, and candid account introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein; the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a...
Author
Series
George Greenby books volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
George is heartbroken when his neighbor Annie and her space-scientist father move to Florida, but when Annie sends him a secret message telling him she has been contacted by aliens with a terrible warning, he joins her in a galaxy-wide search for answers. Includes scientific essays on space travel.
Author
Series
George Greenby books volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of a young boy and his neighbor friend as they travel through a computer portal into outer space, where they explore such mysteries as black holes and the origins of the universe, while trying to evade an evil scientist.
Series
Stephen Hawking's universe volume 1
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
The latest advances in cosmological thought presented by one of today's most renowned scientists. Program one presents the history of theories on the universe as it is known today. Program two delves into the beginning of the universe.
Series
Stephen Hawking's universe volume 2
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
c2000 1997
Language
English
Description
The latest advances in cosmological thought presented by one of today's most renowned scientists. Program three features the development of the various materials from which matter is created. Program four covers the discovery of "dark matter" which fills the space between stars and galaxies.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
Physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking poses enduring scientific questions to teams of non-scientists to test their problem solving skills and summon their inner-genius, covering topics such as time travel, the existence of life on other planets, how the universe came to be, and the origins of life.