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Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)

theoretical physicist, cosmologist

  • University of Oxford, University of Cambridge
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
George and the Big Bang
George's Secret Key to the Universe
A Briefer History of Time
The Universe in a Nutshell
The theory of everything
Black holes and baby universes and other essays
George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
The nature of space and time
The Grand Design
Faces of the Century
God Created the Integers
A Brief History of Time
A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
Black Holes
George and the Unbreakable Code
The large scale structure of space-time
The future of theoretical physics and cosmology
On the Shoulders of Giants
Hawking on the big bang and black holes
The future of spacetime
My Brief History
Computer Resources for People With Disabilities
Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?
General Relativity; an Einstein Centenary Survey
The illustrated theory of everything
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time
George's Secret Key Complete Hardcover Collection
You and the Universe
Apollo
Stephen Hawking's Universe
Universe in a Nutshell/Illustrated Brief History of Time
The illustrated A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell
Los sueños de los que está hecha la materia
George and the blue moon
George's Secret Key to the Universe Complete 6 Books Collection Set
Illustrated on the Shoulders of Giants
A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
Essential Einstein
Genius of Britain (Text Only)
Einsteins Traum. Expeditionen an die Grenzen der Raumzeit
The dreams that stuff is made of
Superspace and supergravity
George and the Unbreakable Code
Unlocking the Universe
George ve Mavi Ay
Wo men wei he zai ci
The Search for Infinity
Stephen Hawking
Penguin Readers Level 5
Historia del tiempo
La grande avventura dell'universo
What Is Inside a Black Hole?
ha-Teʼoryah shel ha-kol
Das große Stephen-Hawking-Lesebuch
SOBRE LES ESPATLLES DE GEGANTS
Benim Kisa Tarihim
Hōkingu uchū to ningen o kataru
Breves respuestas a las grandes preguntas [Hardcover] Hawking, Stephen
George and the Ship of Time
George and the Unbreakable Code
Will Artificial Intelligence Outsmart Us?
Supernova 2121
Aforizmalar
Georges Secret Key To The (Chinese Edition)
Stephen Hawking Time and Universe
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Guo qiao li de 60 nian
Haben Schwarze Löcher keine Haare?
George i błękitny księżyc
Historia Del Tiempo Illustrada
El Cosmos/The Cosmos
Will We Survive on Earth?
The Cambridge Lectures
HISTORIA DEL TEMPS -
How Did It All Begin?
George's Secret Key To The Universe
Stephen W. Hawking's Life Works
New Scientist : the Origin of  Everything
Black Holes and Time Warps
ʼChar ʼgod chen mo
Great Science Writers of the Decade
Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra (born 1939)

physicist, environmentalist, documentary participant

  • University of Vienna
The science of Leonardo
The Tao of Physics
The turning point
The web of life
The Hidden Connections
Uncommon wisdom
Green politics
Turning Point, The
Learning From Leonardo Decoding The Notebooks Of A Genius
Fritjof Capra in conversation with Michael Toms
Verborgene Zusammenhänge
The Systems View of Life
Belonging to the universe
Le temps du changement
Green Politics
El Punto Crucial
Das Tao der Physik
Green politics
The new vision of reality
El Tao E La Fisica /tao And the Physique
Turning Point (W) Op
Lebensnetz. Ein neues Verständnis der lebendigen Welt
Las Conexiones Ocultas
Wendezeit. Bausteine für ein neues Weltbild
Das neue Denken
Steering business toward sustainability
Tao of Physics, The
Sabiduria Insolita - 2b0 Edicion
Ratus Poche : Francette top secrete
El Tao de La Fisica
Tao de la physique
Einstein and the Buddha
Il Tao della fisica
La botanica di Leonardo
Rivista Bioarchitettura®  - numero 67
Le Tao de la physique
Metaphors of consciousness
Uncommon Wisdom
Wendezeit. Bausteine für ein neues Weltbild. Sonderausgabe
El Punto Crucial
Hope Is an Imperative
Reframing complexity
La scienza della vita
The ecology of law
Belonging to the universe
O Ponto de Mutação
Patterns of Connection
Belonging to the Universe
Metaphors of Conciousness
Wendezeit
The Tao of Physics / Tao shizengaku
Verborgene Zusammenhänge
Das neue Denken by Capra, Fritjof
Wertewandel, Demokratie, Gesellschaft
Das Neue Denken
Mindwalk
Das Tao der Physik
Yeni Cagin Siradisi Bilgeleri
Synthese. Neue Bausteine für das Weltbild von morgen.
The Edible Schoolyard
Wendezeit im Christentum
Systems View of Life
Learning from Leonardo
La ciencia de Leonardo
Ecology of Law
Hukuk Ekolojisi
ha-Madaʻ shel Leʼonardo
O ponto de mutacao
Der blinde Tanz zur lautlosen Musik
New Age
Patterns of Connection
Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinow (born 1954)

physicist, mathematician

  • University of California, Berkeley
Feynman's Rainbow
A Briefer History of Time
The Drunkard's Walk
The Grand Design
The last dinosaur
Stephen Hawking
Euclid's Window
Elastic
The Upright Thinkers
Subliminal
War of the Worldviews
Emotional
Stephen Hawking
Titanic Cat
O andar do bêbado
Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman (born 1948)

physicist, astrophysicist

  • California Institute of Technology, Princeton University
Origins
The diagnosis
Einstein's dreams
Dance for two
Good Benito
Great ideas in physics
The Discoveries
Time for the stars
Reunion
Song of two worlds
A Sense of the Mysterious
The discoveries
Time travel and Papa Joe's pipe
Reunion
Ghost
A modern day Yankee in a Connecticut court
Problem book in relativity and gravitation
The Accidental Universe
The best American essays 2000
Ancient light
The Best American Science Writing 2005
Quantum Legacies
Beauty and the Brain
Greyhounds
Die Diagnose
Searching for stars on an island in Maine
Probable Impossibilities
Zeit für die Sterne
In praise of wasting time
Screening room
Southern Writers on Writing
Mr G A Novel About The Creation
Living with the Genie
Revealing the universe
Screening Room
Good Benito
Searching for stars on an island in Maine
Ancient Light
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
Origins
The world is too much with me
Ghost
Mr g
Song of Two Worlds
Ada and the Galaxies
Mr. g
Yildizlarin Zamani
Good Benito
Los sueños de Einstein
Living with the Genie
Dance for Two
Senhor D.
Bay Tanri
Einstein'in Dusleri
Ghost
The accidental universe
Shuang ren wu
Những giấc mơ của Einstein
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine Lib/E
Ta oneira tou Ainstain =
Einstein's Dreams
In Praise of Wasting Time
Revealing the universe
Luz antigua
Aḥlām Aynshtāyin
Three Flames
Moyez Gulamhussein Vassanji
Moyez Gulamhussein Vassanji (born 1950)

publisher, physicist

  • University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Place Within
The in-between world of Vikram Lall
Amriika
The book of secrets
The assassin's song
Contemporary African Short Stories
Mordecai Richler
No new land
Uhuru Street
The gunny sack
The magic of Saida
The Magic of Saida
A Meeting of streams
Everything There Is
And home was Kariakoo
Elvis, Raja
The assassin's song
World of Wonders
C. P. Snow
C. P. Snow (1905-1980)

physicist, politician, literary critic

  • University of Cambridge, University of Leicester
The physicists
The two cultures
The sleep of reason
Death under Sail
In their wisdom
The search
The conscience of the rich
Time of hope
Strangers and brothers
Corridors of power
Last things
The light and the dark
The malcontents
Variety of men
The new men
Trollope, his life and art
The masters
Science and government
A coat of varnish
The state of siege
The realists
Stories from modern Russia
Trollope
Public affairs
The Two Cultures
C. P. Snow, a spectrum
C.P. Snow: Strangers and Brothers
Strangers and Brothers
Last Things (Strangers and Brothers)
The Masters (Strangers and Brothers)
Trollope
5 coat of varnish
The New Men (Strangers and Brothers)
Corridors of Power (Strangers and Brothers)
George Passant (Strangers and Brothers)
C.P. Snow
Science and Government
Homecomings (Strangers and Brothers)
The Light and the Dark (Strangers and Brothers)
The Two Cultures
Time of Hope (Strangers and Brothers)
The two cultures and the scientific revolution
Affair (Affair Hre)
The Sleep of Reason (Strangers and Brothers)
Reader's Digest Family Treasury of Great Biographies. Volume II
The Realists: Eight Portraits
Winter's tales
Stories from Modern Russia
Variety of men
Strangers and Brothers, Volume 2 (The Masters, The New Men, Homecoming, and The Affair)
Dve kul'tury
The masters
Appendix to Science and Government
Recent thoughts on the two cultures
Homecomings
Magnanimity
The Masters
The Conscience of the Rich
Time of Hope
The Conscience of the Rich (Strangers and Brothers)
Coat of Varnish (Coat of Varnish SL Ppr)
Die zwei Kulturen
ROBESPIERRE. A STUDY. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION.
Richard Aldington
LIGHT AND THE DARK (Light & Dark Hre)
THE NEW MEN
George Passant
Trollope an Illustrated Biography
George Passant
The Masters
The Masters
The Conscience of the Rich
Strangers and Brothers Vol.3
The search. --
Last things
The Two Cultures and a Second Look, an Expanded Version of the Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
The search. --
The affair
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
Search
The new men
The Masters
Strangers and brothers
The Conscience Of The Rich.
IN THEIR WISDOM
New Men
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
The masters; a novel
Variety of Men
Videnskab og stat
Va y Viene - Cuantos Hay..
Homecomings
The light and the dark
Selections from C. P. Snow
The light and the dark
Homecomings
The Masters. Penguin Fiction No. 1089
STRANGERS AND BROTHERS (Strangers & Brothers Hre)
Kinds of excellence
Zeit der Hoffnung
As dúas culturas
New lives for old
Las DOS Culturas
Homecoming
The Conscence of the Rich
Time of Hope, 1st, First Edition
The search
Search
The Affair (Strangers and Brothers) by C.P. Snow (2000-12-08)
Corridors of Power
Corridors of power
Strangers and brothers
C.P. Snow
Strangers and Brothers.
The Light and The Dark
Writers and readers of the Soviet Union
A coat of varnish
Conscience of the Rich by C. P. Snow (1958-06-06)
Les dues cultures
Les dues cultures
Strangers and brothers
The Masters
The Conscience of the Rich
Corridors of Power
Realists
The Search by C. P. Snow (1958-12-05)
Variety of Men [By] C. P. Snow
Science And Government - The Godkin Lectures at Harvard University 1960
Les Deux cultures
TIME OF HOPE (Time of Hope Hre)
The New Men
Strangers and Brothers, Volume 3 (Corridors of Power, The Sleep of Reason, Last Things)
Science and Government
The Masters (Masters Hre)
Va y Viene - Lo Contrario de..
Variety of men
The Masters (Penguin)
Les dues cultures
De to kulturer
Mi Gran Libro de Los Colores - Formas-Numero
Variety of men
The Search
The Conscience of the Rich
Masters Snow CP
The Sleep of Reason
Time of Hope. Book on Tape Collector's Edition
The search / by C.P. Snow
Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
The Search
The conscience of the rich
Homecomings
Last Things by C.P. Snow
A postscript to science and government
Death Under Sail
Iki Kültür
Strangers and Brothers 3 Volume Set
Strangers and Brothers
Science and Government
Time of Hope
The new men
The two cultures and the scientific revolution (The Rede lecture, 1959) (The Rede lecture, 1959)
The Sleep of Reason by C. P. Snow (1968-10-06)
Strangers and Brothers
The Affair
Les dues cultures
Last Things by C. P. Snow (1970-10-22)
Science and government
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (#4951)
The light and the dark
Last Things [By] C. P. Snow
The affair / by C.P. Snow
The stage of siege
Va y Viene - Quien Vive Aqui ?
Two Cultures
The Masters
The two cultures; and, A second look
Va y Viene - Colores y Formas
Death under Sail
The sleep of reason (His Strangers and brothers, 10)
Variety of Man
Two Cultures
A postcript to Science and government
The new man
C.P. Snow
Time of hope
The conscience of the rich
The two cultures and the scientific revolution
Variety of men
Richard Aldington
Time of hope
The two cultures: and a second look
The masters
The two cultures
Appendix to Science and government
The light and the dark
The conscience of the rich
John Tyndall
John Tyndall (1820-1893)

physicist, glaciologist, mountaineer, inventor, philosopher

  • University of Marburg
Faraday as a discoverer
Essays on the floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefaction and infection
The forms of water in clouds & rivers, ice & glaciers
Lectures on light
Sound
Hours of exercise in the Alps
Fragments of science
New fragments
Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat: A Series of Memoirs Published ..
Heat considered as a mode of motion
Light and Electricity: Notes of Two Courses of Lectures Before the Royal Institution of Great ..
Six Lectures on Light: Delivered in America in 1872-1873
Heat, a mode of motion
Essays on the floating-matter of the air
Light and Electricity: Notes of Two Courses of Lectures Before the Royal ..
The glaciers of the Alps, & Mountaineering in 1861
Sound: A Course of Eight Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews
Researches on diamagnetism and magne-crystallic action
The glaciers of the Alps
Lectures on Light: Delivered in America in 1872-1873
Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat: A Series ..
Scientific use of the imagination and other essays
New Fragments: By John Tyndall, F. R. S
Heat
Address delivered before the British Association assembled at Belfast
Lessons in electricity at the Royal institution, 1875-6
Essays on the Floating Matter of the Air: In Relation to Putrefaction and Infection
On radiation
The Forms of Water in Clouds & Rivers, Ice & Glaciers
The Fee for Exaltation
Fragments of science for unscientific people
Notes of a Course of Seven Lectures on Electrical Phenomena and Theories ..
A Library of Universal Literature
Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion: Being a Course of Twelve Lectures Delivered at the Royal ..
The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers: with thirty-five illus. drawn and ..
Scientific addresses
Select works
The Glaciers of the Alps: Being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents, an ..
Advancement of science
Sound
Mountaineering in 1861
Fragaments of science
The science of sound
Sound: A Course of Eight Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of ..
Heat a mode of motion
Light and electricity
Notes of a course of six lectures (adapted to a juvenile auditory ) on ice, water, vapour, and air
Notes of a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories
Fragments of science for unscientific people: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews
Lectures and essays
Early Mathematics and Physics, books on CD
Fragments of science: a series of detached essays, addresses and reviews
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light delivered at the Royal institution of Great Britain April 8-June 3, 1869
Professor Tyndall on party politics
Faraday As a Discoverer
Fragments Of Science - Vol II
Contributions to molecular physics in the domain of radiant heat
Hours of Exercise in the Alps
Lighthouse illuminants
The forms of water in clouds and rivers
Faraday und seine Entdeckungen
Essays On The Floating Matter Of The Air
Lessons in electricity at the Royal institution
Fragments Of Science - Vol I
John Tyndall, natural philosopher, 1820-1893
Lectures addressed to teachers on preparation for obtaining science certificates and the method of teaching a science class
Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion
Heat. A Mode of Motion
Essays On The Use And Limit Of The Imagination In Science
Six Lectures on Light
Address of John Tyndall
The Forms of Water in Clouds And Rivers, Ice And Glaciers
Fragments of Science a Series of Detached Essays, Addresses and Reviews
On the importance of the study of physics as a branch of education for all classes
Sound
The authoritarian state
On science and man
Count Rumford
Count Rumford, originator of the Royal Institution
New Fragments
Essays on the use and limit of the imagination in science
The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 2
The Glaciers Of The Alps
Sound
On The Study Of Physics
Notes on a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories
Notes on a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena andtheories
Fragments of Science
Lessons in electricity
Lessons In Electricity
The case for economic nationalism
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light
Remarks on an article entitled "Energy" in "Good words"
Further researches on the polarity of diamagnetic force
Remarks on the dynamical theory of heat
Antidote to Morisonianism, or, The Way of life, by the Rev. John Kirk, shewn to be the way of death
On the influence of magnetic force on the electric discharge
Experiments on the vibrations of strings
Eleventh Hour
On the physical basis of solar chemistry
Les glaciers et les transformations de l'eau
On some of the eruptive phenomena of Iceland
Comparative view of the cleavage of crystals and slate rocks
On a new series of chemical reactions produced by light
Programme d'un cours en sept leçons sur les phénomènes et les théories électriques
Hours of exercise in the Alps
A record of the scientific work of John Tyndall
Fragments of science for unscientific people
Notes on a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories... Royal Institution... April 28-June 9 1870
Notes of a Course of Nine Lectures on Light Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain April 8-June 3, 1869
Faraday As A Discoverer
Death in the Jordan
The electric light
The Prayer-gauge debate
Contributions to molecular physics in the domain of radiant heat
On the scientific use of the imagination
Der Schall
On radiation
Lectures on light, delivered in the United States in 1872-73
Notes of a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories Tyndall ..
Les microbes
Lessons in elecricity at the Royal Institution, 1875-6
Das Wasser in seinen Formen als Wolken und Flüsse, Eis und Gletscher
On a magnetic experiment
Researches on diamagnetism and magne-crystallic action, including the question of diamagnetic polarity
Essays on the floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefacation and infection
On some physical properties of ice
Essays on the Floating-Matter of the Air in Relation to Putrefaction and Infection
On the blue colour of the sky, the polarization of skylight, and on the polarization of light by cloudy matter generally
Sound
On radiation through the earth's atmosphere
Miracles and special providences
Death in the Lebanon
The forms of water
Notes on scientific history
A vacation tour in Switerland
Atoms, molecules, and ether waves
Antología de la poesía latinoamericana, 1950-1970
Notes of a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories, delivered at the Royal Institutionof Great Britain, April 28- June 9, 1867
On the structure and motion of glaciers
Scientific addresses
Sound
The forms of water in clouds & rivers, ice & glaciers
The forms of water in clouds [and] rivers, ice [and] glaciers
The beginnings of things, or, Science versus theology
On radiation
Essays on the use and limit of the imagination in science
On the scientific use of the imagination
New fragments
Sound
Lessons in electricity
Sound
The glaciers of the Alps
Le son
Heat considered as a mode of motion
Contributions to molecular physics in the domain of radiant heat
Fragments of science
Essays on the use and limit of the imagination in science
Tyndall, Huxley and Owen
Notes of a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories
Elektrische erscheinungen und theorien
A'erbi de bing he
Address delivered before the British Association assembled at Belfast
Lessons in electricity at the Royal institution, 1875-6
Le son
The culture demanded by modern life
Fermentation and its bearings on the phenomena of disease
La lumière
Hours of exercise in the Alps
Notes of a course of seven lectures on electrical phenomena and theories
Six lectures on light delivered in America in 1872-1873
The Prayer-gauge debate
Fragments of science
Heat
Fragments of science : a series of detached essays, addresses, and reviews
Further researches on the deportment and vital persistence of putrefactive and infective organisms from a physical point of view
Heat considered as a mode of motion
Six lectures on light : delivered in America in 1872-1873
Light and electricity
Arupusu no tabi yori
Fragments of science for unscientific people
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light delivered at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, April 8-June 3, 1869
On radiation
Selected works of John Tyndall
Das Licht
Researches on diamagnetism and magne-crystallic action
Lessons in electricity at the Royal Institution, 1875-6
Six lectures on light
Address of John Tyndall, F.R.S.,..., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution, President
Fragments of science for unscientific people
Arupusu kikō
Hours of exercise in the Alps
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light delivered at the Royal institution of Great Britain April 8-June 3, 1869
Heat a mode of motion
Lectures and essays
Fragmente aus den Naturwissenschaften
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light delivered at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, April 8-June 3, 1869
Notes of a course of nine lectures on light delivered at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, April 8-June 3, 1869
On the atmosphere as a vehicle of sound
Essays on the floating matter of the air in relation to putrefaction and infection
Scientific memoirs, selected from the transactions of foreign academies of science, and from foreign journals
On the scientific use of the imagination
Michael Psellos
Michael Psellos (1018-1078)

philosopher, politician, historian, poet, physician, astronomer

Mothers and sons, fathers and daughters
The Chronographia
Theologica, Vol. I
Poemata
Orationes Hagiographicae
De operatione daemonum cum notis Gaulmini curante Jo. Fr. Boissonade: Accedunt inedita opuscula ..
Orationes Panegyricae
Orationes Forenses Et Acta
Orationes Forenses et Acta
Theologica
Philosophica Minora, vol. I
Philosophica Minora, vol. II
Psellos and the Patriarchs
Démonologie populaire, démonologie critique au XIe siècle
Orationes Hagiographicae
Orationes Panegyricae
De operatione daemonum
Oratoria Minora
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers
Fourteen Byzantine rulers
Theologica, vol. I
Fourteen Byzantine rulers
Poemata
Michaelis Pselli Philosophica minora
Michaelis Pselli Historia syntomos
Epistola a Giovanni Xifilino
Michaelis Pselli orationes hagiographicae
De omnifaria doctrina
Tou sophōtatou Psellou epilusis eis tous ex tēs philosophias tropous
Compendivm mathematicvm
Michaelis Pselli Philosophica Minora (Teaching and Training in Geriatric Medicine)
Michaelis Pselli theologica
Michaelis Pselli Compendivm mathematicvm
Chronographie
Chronographia
M. Pselli metaphrasis libri secundi Posteriorum Analyticorum Aristotelis
Scripta minora
The essays on Euripides and George of Pisidia and on Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius
The history of Psellus
Epi tre sur la Chrysope e
De operatione daemonum
De lapidum virtutibus Graece ac Latine
The Chronographia of Michael Psellus
Encomio per Giovanni piissimo metropolita di Euchaita e protosincello
Imperatori di Bisanzio (Cronografia)
The essays on Euripides and George of Pisidia and on Heliodrus and Achilles Tatius
The chronographia of Michael Psellus
Michaelis Pselli Oratoria minora
De operatione daemonum
La crisopea, ovvero, Come fabbricare l'oro
Chronographie
Michaelis Pselli Oratoria minora
Epistola a Michele Cerulario
The history of Psellus
Kommentar zur Physik des Aristoteles
Michaelis Pselli Oratoria minora
The essays on Euripides and George of Pisidia and on Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers
Chronographie; ou
The history of Psellus
Michel Italikos lettres et discours
Michaelis Pselli Commentarii in Physicen Aristotelis
Michaelis Pselli orationes panagyricae
Epistola a Giovanni Xifilino
Autobiografia
Nozioni paradossali
Epistola a Giovanni Xifilino
La tragedia greca