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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Science News favorite science book of 2019As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world's most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of twentieth-century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how ...

An accessible introductory textbook on general relativity, covering the theory's foundations, mathematical formalism and major applications.

From the Royal Society Winton Prize winner¿Sean Carroll examines what it means to exist on this speck of dust in a possibly infinite universe. It¿s fascinating to see a real working physicist thinking these things through and trying to come to a conclusion.¿¿ Professor Brian Cox on The Big Picture, a Mail on Sunday Book of the Year¿Quantum physics is not mystifying. The implications are mind-bending, and not yet fully understood, but this revo...

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science BooksA Best Science Book of the Year for the Guardian, Financial Times, and New ScientistIt was the universe¿s most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how physics works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN¿s Large Hadron Collider don¿t happen without incredible risks ¿ or occasional skulduggery. In the definitive account of the greatest...

Deftly unmasks quantum weirdness to reveal a strange but utterly wondrous reality."-Brian GreeneAs you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world's most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly t...

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A unique opportunity for students to learn biology through stories told by one of the great science storytellers of our time: Sean B. Carroll. This enriching text follows the structure of an introductory biology course, with brief chapters that span the breadth of the life sciences. This gives maximum flexibility to assign a few stories, or all of them.

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CAUGHT LOOKING by Charles Sean Carroll is a chapbook volume of both narrative and lyrical poetry that offers a broad view of the human condition through the lens of our national pastime. The work is divided into three sections correspondent to the seasons in which the game of baseball is played-spring, summer, and fall, the poems themselves represent a gradual shift from early themes of innocence and nostalgia to the more realistic-and often d...

With each edition, An Introduction to Genetic Analysis (IGA) evolves discovery by discovery with the world of genetic research, taking students from the foundations of Mendelian genetics to the latest findings and applications by focusing on the landmark experiments that define the field. With its author team of prominent scientists who are also highly accomplished educators, IGA again combines exceptional currency, expansive updating of its a...

Breaks down how the universe works at the quantum, cosmic and human levels to reveal how our everyday lives connect to the underlying laws of nature. Now in paperback.

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Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vastly off the mark. And what we believed to be the history of our own species consisted of fantastic myths and fairy tales, fossils, known for millennia, were seen as the bones of dragons and other imagined creatures. How did we learn so much so quickly? Remarkable Creatures celebrates the pioneers who replaced our fancies with the even more remarkabl...

More than thirty years ago, Nathaniel Ayers was a promising student at Juilliard, until schizophrenia robbed him of his ability to function. When journalist Steve Lopez hears him playing his heart out on a two-string violin on skid row, he imagines that he might be able to help change Ayerss life.

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A critically acclaimed, radical new history of time before the Big Bang, taking our investigation into the theory of time to the next level, exploring subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel and the meaning of life.

A fantastic voyage across 276 billion trillion miles of space and 13.5 billion years of time, told through more than 300 of the most dramatic astronomical images ever captured.

The instant New York Times bestseller about humanity's place in the universe-and how we understand it."Vivid...impressive....Splendidly informative."-The New York Times"Succeeds spectacularly."-Science"A tour de force."-SalonAlready internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extra...

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