Science Universe

Storm is born into a world of secrets - an island no one visits, names no one will say, and deaths that no one will talk about. The answers are locked in his species' troubled past, guarded by the fierce creasia cats. But when Storm's friends are threatened, he decides that he must act, pitting himself against the creasia to show that they can be resisted and outwitted. To prove his point, he must stay one step ahead of clever hunters, who have more to lose than Storm imagines.

4 huge Sherlock Holmes stories filled with mystery, fantasy and adventure. DEATH AND ILLUSIONS Harry’s magic goes awry and his act Even more so…the situation is more Than dangerous…and even Merlin’s Advice might be enough to help him This time. SHUDDERS Harry Houdini performs extremely dangerous Stunts, and his staff risk their lives helping him Do the best show possible. But this time a beloved friend and worker falls to His death. And it was no accident. It was murder! CULT OF THE BLOOD ORCHID This cult has only one way out of it… Violent death! BEAST It had to be smart enough ...

Welcome to the Threads and Luxidoni Light Theory, a revolutionary new model of the universe — reimagined and restructured through the power of mechanics, not metaphysics. In this landmark volume, 387 questions and answers guide you through a bold new vision of reality — one built not on particles, fields, or imaginary dimensions but on threads and luxidoni: the physical, mechanical components that define energy, motion, and the fabric of space. This is not just a book — it is a complete structural framework that replaces wave-particle duality, redefines gravity as thread tension, and ...

Ties that bind...Danai Liao-Centrella is many things: Solaris gladiator; proud military commander; successful diplomat. All of those roles pale beneath perhaps the heaviest responsibility of anyone in the Capellan Confederation: To speak the truth to its ruler, Chancellor Daoshen Liao. He is the undeniable dictator of hundreds of worlds. Mighty armies move at his command. Billions of lives hang on his every decision. Against that, she must speak the truth. And the truth is, the war with House Davion must end. Because there is a greater danger looming.

Michael and Melanie Anderle are hauling a tanker full of oil with their Peterbilt eighteen-wheeler when they're struck by a temporal irregularity that sends them, the truck, and their daughter back in time a thousand years. The bubble that transports them also grabs a chemist and her two young children, along with half a convenience store in the middle of the United States. They just want to make a decent life for themselves in this new world of the past, with their Peterbilt and its oil providing a means of transportation, a generator, and shelter.

What if everything you’ve been told about separateness is wrong? What if you, the people around you, and the entire universe are not many things—but one? Science is catching up to what mystics have known for centuries. Quantum physics, neuroscience, and philosophy are all pointing to the same radical truth: reality is not a collection of isolated parts, but a single, unified whole. This book breaks it down in a way that anyone can understand. A mind-expanding journey into oneness. From ancient spiritual traditions to cutting-edge scientific discoveries, explore how monism reshapes ...

When tech scavenger Xích Si is captured and imprisoned by the infamous pirates of the Red Banner, she expects to be tortured or killed. Instead, their leader, Rice Fish, makes Xích Si an utterly incredible proposition: an offer of marriage. Both have their reasons for this arrangement: Xích Si needs protection; Rice Fish, a sentient spaceship, needs a technical expert to investigate the death of her first wife, the Red Scholar. That’s all there is to it.

Before a war that ravaged the realms, and claimed the lives of countless souls, Mordred had been the loyal son of a man who would go on to become a tyrant. He was given over to his enemies to be tortured and experimented on, turning him into a twisted and evil monster. It took Mordred a long time to claw his way back from the abyss he was in, to stand up beside his friends and fight for the freedom of people who had distrusted and hated him for so long.

The survivors live underground, as far from the Original World as possible and protected from the ultimate evil, Radiation. Then terrible monsters, who bring with them a screaming silence, are seen and people start to disappear. One young man realizes he must question the nature of Darkness itself.

Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life. But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home.

Two novellas set in Aliette de Bodard’s award-winning, critically acclaimed Xuya universe, a timeline where Asia became dominant, and where the space age has Confucian galactic empires of Vietnamese and Chinese inspiration. Contains The Citadel of Weeping Pearls and The Tea Master and the Detective.

With origins in the Old Universe, the malevolent, acquisitive intelligence of Tinsori Light sought to infect others with itself and send those agents out into the wide new universe to infect even more. For centuries, two heroes stood between Tinsori Light and the vulnerable universe—Light Keepers Jen Sin yos'Phelium and Lorith of the Sanderat. Just when it seemed that they—merely human—must fail, Tinsori Light, enfeebled by aged systems, succumbed to the stress of a unique spatial event—and died, leaving the station a shell. Luckily, the light keepers have back-up.

From Galileo’s humble spyglass to spaceborne observatories that glimpse the edge of time, this is the epic story of how humanity learned to see the universe. For over 400 years, the telescope has reshaped not just astronomy, but our very understanding of our place in the cosmos. Lenses, Light, and the Infinite Night traces the sweeping, often surprising history of this revolutionary instrument—from the dim candlelit workshops of the Renaissance to the golden mirrors of James Webb and the continent-spanning radio eyes that captured a black hole. Told with rich detail and poetic clarity, ...

The sequel to New York Times best sellers Avenger and The Return, Spectre is an unforgettable saga peopled by old friends and ancient enemies, that propels Kirk on a journey of self-discovery every bit as harrowing as the cataclysmic new adventure that awaits him. Written and read by William Shatner!

Pursued by enemies, exiled Liaden clan Korval is settling into a new base on backworld Surebleak. Moving is expensive, as is war, and Korval is strapped for cash. Delm Korval has therefore instructed Master Trader Shan yos'Galan to design and implement new trade routes, quickly. But this is no easy task. Dutiful Passage is targeted by Korval's enemies, denied docking at respectable ports, and cheated by those less respectable. Struggling to recuperate from an attack on his life, while managing daughter Padi’s emerging psychic talents, Shan is running out of options - and time.

Christophe Galfard's mission in life is to spread modern scientific ideas to the general public in entertaining ways. Using his considerable skills as a brilliant theoretical physicist and successful young-adult author, The Universe in Your Hand employs the immediacy of simple, direct language to show us, not explain to us, the theories that underpin everything we know about our universe.

Robbed. Exiled. Beaten. Scorned. Now, she’s coming back for everything! Devised to defend humanity from alien threat, Unidom’s absolute control reaches every settlement and space station. Mirov, an assassin built to impose Unidom’s willingness to kill until their side wins, is betrayed when Unidom takes away something more important than life itself. Hell hath no fury like Mirov scorned. In retribution for the chaos and quick deaths heaped upon their heads, Unidom exiles Mirov to another world and is forced to leave everything on Earth behind. Disgusted with Unidom’s increasing and ...

A Pluralistic Universe by the philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910) is based on a series of lectures held at Oxford University in 1908. James is mainly concerned with the nature of relations, stating the possibility of external relations which were excluded from monistic idealism. James maintains that we are guided by beliefs that we attempt to justify in order to keep our beliefs going.

For many billions of years, humans - having conquered the curse of aging - spread throughout the entire Milky Way. They are able to live all their dreams, but to their great disappointment, no other intelligent species has ever been encountered. Now, humanity itself is on the brink of extinction because the universe is dying a protracted yet inevitable death.

Alex Vilenkin resume en este audiolibro, de una forma amena y accesible, la historia de las investigaciones de los últimos cincuenta años en torno al origen y la evolución del universo. Vilenkin hace hincapié en dos teorías en las que es especialmente innovador: la inflación eterna del cosmos y la existencia de múltiples universos... en alguno de los cuales tal vez ahora nos hallemos replicados, sosteniendo este mismo libro en nuestras manos.