THE EXTRAORDINARY FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE BESTSELLING LONG EARTH SERIES 'Intricately described . . . gently immersive' Guardian 'Enthralling and thought-provoking in equal measure' Daily Mail 'A love letter to science-fiction itself' SFX 2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society continues to evolve. For Joshua Valienté, now in his late sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of trolls. But as Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth receives a signal from the stars. A signal that is picked up by radio astronomers but also in more abstract ways by the trolls and by the Great Traversers. Its message is simple but its implications are enormous: JOIN US. The super-smart Next realise that the Message contains instructions on how to develop an immense artificial intelligence but to build it they have to seek help from throughout the industrious worlds of mankind. Bit by bit, byte by byte, they assemble a computer the size of a continent a device that will alter the Long Earths place within the cosmos and reveal the ultimate, life-affirming goal of those who sent the Message. Its impact will be felt by and resonate with all mankind and other species, young and old, communities and individuals who inhabit the Long Earths ___________________ The Long Cosmos is the fifth and final novel in the Long Earth series. 'The Long Earth series deserves a place on the bookshelves of hardcore SF fans and general readers alike' Independent on Sunday <br><br> Autorid: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter <br>
Love From the Cosmos is a BIPOC romantic comedy in which a plus-sized Nigerian woman receives a terrible partner through an astrology-based dating app and, after filing a scathing complaint, must decide if shell follow her carefully-constructed plan to find love with the best app on the market or let herself fall for her very-much-not-part-of-the-plan coach, who also just happens to be a god. Beautiful, smart, and determined Moyo Adegbite has it all...almost.As a Boston-based Pediatrician, shes made her parents back in Lagos proud. Now, shes ready for true love.To avoid dating all the duds in Boston, Moyos research led her to devise a foolproof plan: Join Cupid's Bow, the popular astrology dating app that uses birth charts to match soulmates with a 99 percent success rate. And the app works until it doesnt. After discovering the infidelity of a Cupids Bow match, Moyo goes on a booze-fueled rant against the apps creators, filing an irate complaint slamming the planet responsible for her love lifethe god, Saturn.Niyi Bankole was reluctantly named Saturn, and now hes saddled with a position at Cupids Bow, the family business, as one of three matchmakers. But Niyi quickly learns hes unequipped to be a god. Leaning into his science background to hide his incompetence, Niyi writes an algorithm that seems to work for clients...until Moyos complaint triggers damage control. Now, Moyo is contracted to receive a dating coach to walk her through three Cupids Bowassigned dates. Eager to clean up his mess and (secretly) fine-tune his algorithm, Niyi offers to be Moyos dating coach.As they work together, will Moyo find love through the algorithm, as she and Niyi planned, or will she get swept up in one of Saturns rings? Beautiful, smart, and determined Moyo Adegbite has it all...almost.As a Boston-based Pediatrician, shes made her parents back in Lagos proud. Plus, immigrating to the US alongside her two ride-or-die besties means shes accomplished, respected, and ready to party with her girls anytime shes not serving her community.Now, shes ready for true love.To avoid dating all the duds in Boston and souring off love completely, Moyos research led her to devise a foolproof plan: Join Cupid's Bow, the popular astrology dating app that uses birth charts to match soulmates with a 99 percent success rate. And the app works until it doesnt. After discovering the infidelity of a Cupids Bow match, Moyo goes on a booze-fueled rant against the apps creators, filing an irate complaint slamming the planet responsible for her love lifethe god, Saturn.Opposed to his birthright, and habitually swapping astrology texts for science textbooks, Niyi Bankoles mothers passing and workaholic fathers abrupt retirement leave him as the successor to Saturns seat with no way out. Reluctantly named Saturn, hes saddled with a position at family business, Cupids Bow, as one of three matchmakers.But at Cupids Bow HQ, Niyi quickly learns hes unequipped to be a god. Leaning into his science background to hide his incompetence, Niyi writes an algorithm that seems to work for clients...until Moyos complaint triggers damage control. Now, Moyo is contracted to receive a dating coach to walk her through three Cupids Bowassigned dates. Eager to clean up his mess and (secretly) fine-tune his algorithm, Niyi offers to be Moyos dating coach.Defensive Moyo surprises herself by finding her ironclad plan to avoid emotion and trust science weakens once she meets handsome Niyi. Similarly, Niyis attraction to Moyo puts his algorithm at risk as he cant help stepping in and wooing the client himselfno matter how hard he tries not to.As they work together, will Moyo find love through the algorithm, as she and Niyi planned, or will she get swept up in one of Saturns rings? <br><br> Autorid: Mowa Badmos <br>
A noted astrophysicist presents a lively and accessible introduction to radical ideas and discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universe A strikingly lucid account of the expansion, not just of the universe, but of the way we have tried to understand it, from the Babylonians to black holes and dark matter.Richard Holmes, By the Book,New York Times Book Review Part history, part science, all illuminating. If you want to understand the greatest ideas that shaped our current cosmic cartography, read this book.Adam G. Riess, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 2011 This book provides a tour of the greatest hits of cosmological discoveriesthe ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is someone at the forefront of the researchan astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe. She not only explains for a wide audience the science behind these essential ideas but also provides an understanding of how radical scientific theories gain acceptance. The formation and growth of black holes, dark matter halos, the accelerating expansion of the universe, the echo of the big bang, the discovery of exoplanets, and the possibility of other universesthese are some of the puzzling cosmological topics of the early twenty-first century. Natarajan discusses why the acceptance of new ideas about the universe and our place in it has never been linear and always contested even within the scientific community. And she affirms that, shifting and incomplete as science always must be, it offers the best path we have toward making sense of our wondrous, mysterious universe. <br><br> Autorid: Priyamvada Natarajan <br>
"What do a crash landing on an uncharted islet, a struggling farmer in the Un, and a small Fold town plagued by peculiar changes have in common? They're all part of the strange and expanding cosmos of Midst, the hit sci-fi/western podcast series from Third Person in conjunction with Critical Role. Explore the people, places, and bizarre phenomena that will immerse you in the unexpected and unique stories from an entirely new cosmos"--
"Between the bright Un and the mysterious Fold sits the islet of Midst... What do a crash landing on an uncharted islet, a struggling farmer in the Un, and a small Fold town plagued by peculiar changes have in common? They're all part of the strange and expanding cosmos of Midst, the hit sci-fi/western podcast series from Third Person in conjunction with Critical Role. Explore the people, places, and bizarre phenomena that will immerse you in the unexpected and unique stories from an entirely new cosmos."-- <br><br> Autorid: Alejandro Aragon, Colin Lorimer, Jasmine Walls <br>
This book explores cosmopolitanisms radical dynamic as expressed in the struggles from below, all over the world, against exclusion and domination, pointing to the horizon of another world that appears possible. It shows that cosmopolitanism emerges negatively through disaffiliation from the given forms of belonging and by questioning of the existing meanings and unjust practices. Through a radical critique, cosmopolitanism goes to the roots of the existing world order based on the nation-state, exposes its exclusionary structure, and brings instead the idea of a World Republic where No One Is Illegal and where all are equal citizens of the world. Maps the radical cosmopolitan dimension of global protests and social movements from recent decades <br><br> Autorid: Tamara Caraus <br>
In Mind and Cosmos Thomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is untenable. The mind-body problem cannot be confined to the relation between animal minds and animal bodies. If materialism cannot accommodate consciousness and other mind-related aspects of reality, then we must abandon a purely materialist understanding of nature in general, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. No such explanation is available, and the physical sciences, including molecular biology, cannot be expected to provide one.The book explores these problems through a general treatment of the obstacles to reductionism, with more specific application to the phenomena of consciousness, cognition, and value. The conclusion is that physics cannot be the theory of everything.
More than 40 fantastic, quick and easy cosmic knitting projects to makeTake your knitting to infinity and beyond and create an entire universe of cute and quirky cosmic toys. Bestselling author Sachiyo Ishii offers 40 adorable projects including astronauts, space shuttles, moon buggies, UFOs, rockets, planets and a whole host of astro-animals such as dogs, bears, kangaroos, bunnies and mice. There's no limit to the fun you can have with these cute mini knits! All the projects are quick and relatively easy to make, with very easy techniques to follow. There is a step-by-step section on how to sew the figures and animals together and the patterns are all suitable for competent beginners.With a handy foldout template sheet stored in the back of the book, this is all you need to make your very own knitted cosmos. <br><br> Autorid: Sachiyo Ishii <br>
Modern Cosmology, Third Edition, provides a detailed introduction to the field of cosmology. Beginning with the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric, this trusted resource includes careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. The reader is then introduced to perturbations about an FLRW universe: their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations, their primordial generation by inflation, and their observational consequences: the acoustic peaks in the CMB; the E/B decomposition in polarization; gravitational lensing of the CMB and large-scale structure; and the BAO standard ruler and redshift-space distortions in galaxy clustering. This revised third edition includes updates such as new sections on gravitational waves, line intensity mapping, and emergent analysis techniques; expanded sections of CMB secondaries; and revised figures and pedagogy. These revisions serve to enhance a comprehensive foundational text, as well as provide users with improvements that are aligned with recent advances in the field, as well as modern focuses in the classroom. Modern Cosmology, Third Edition, builds on how modern observations are rapidly revolutionizing our understanding of the universe, and supplies readers with all the tools needed to effectively work in cosmology. Offers a unique and practical approach for learning how to perform cosmological calculationsNew material on theory, simulations, and analysis of nonlinear structureSubstantial updates on new developments in cosmology since the second edition, including new content on gravitational waves, as well as a new section on emergent analysis techniques and improved pedagogy around figures and imageryContains over 100 exercises for students, with solutions
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Modern Cosmology, Third Edition provides a detailed introduction to the field of cosmology. Beginning with the smooth, homogeneous universe described by a Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric, this trusted resource includes careful treatments of dark energy, big bang nucleosynthesis, recombination, and dark matter. The reader is then introduced to perturbations about an FLRW universe: their evolution with the Einstein-Boltzmann equations, their primordial generation by inflation, and their observational consequences: the acoustic peaks in the CMB; the E/B decomposition in polarization; gravitational lensing of the CMB and large-scale structure; and the BAO standard ruler and redshift-space distortions in galaxy clustering. This revised third edition includes updates such as new sections on gravitational waves, line intensity mapping, and emergent analysis techniques; expanded sections of CMB secondaries; and revised figures and pedagogy. These revisions serve to enhance a comprehensive foundational text, as well as provide users with improvements that are aligned with recent advances in the field, as well as modern focuses in the classroom. Offers a unique and practical approach for learning how to perform cosmological calculations Includes new material on theory, simulations, and analysis of nonlinear structures Contains substantial updates on new developments in cosmology since the second edition, including new content on gravitational waves, as well as a new section on emergent analysis techniques and improved pedagogy around figures and imagery
