9 Top space books like A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

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A Briefer History of Time

By: Stephen Hawking , Leonard Mlodinow

4.26

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scie…

"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"It is just that modern physicists seem to have more imaginative ways of naming new particles and phenomena - they no longer restrict themselves to Greek!"

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

If you liked the space plot in A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Why Evolution Is True

By: Jerry A. Coyne

4.19

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact. In all the current highly publicized de… read more

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"These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve."

-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

"Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves."

-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

"If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31…"

-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

"Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off…"

-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

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2. Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

By: Stephen Hawking , Kip S. Thorne , None

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the … read more

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"Why are black holes so different from all other objects in the macroscopic Universe? Why are they, and they alone, so elegantly simple? If I knew the answer, it would probably tell me something very …"

-Stephen Hawking, Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

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3. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.08

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit … read more

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"….. Neptune, the outermost planet. No, it’s not Pluto. Get over it."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

"Bosons, by the way, are named for the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

"Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

"I don't know about you, but the planet Saturn pops into my mind with every bite of a hamburger I take."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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4. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

By: Simon Singh

4.21

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

A half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five catacl… read more

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"All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable."

-Simon Singh, Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

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5. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

By: Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss

3.94

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how e… read more

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"Forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today."

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"أنا غير كفؤ للحديث عن اللاشيء، لأن رجال الدين والفلاسفة هم خبراء في لاشيء!"

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"...nuestro universo desaparecerá tan abruptamente como, probablemente, empezó."

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"We need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not."

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

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6. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

By: Leonard Susskind

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a yo… read more

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7. The Selfish Gene

By: Richard Dawkins

4.16

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

"The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was … read more

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"Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance"

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene."

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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8. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural Historymagazine have long recognized Neil… read more

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9. About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

By: Paul C.W. Davies

4.23

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

An elegant, witty, and engaging exploration of the riddle of time, which examines the consequences … read more

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" David Park is a physicist and philosopher at Williams College in Massachusetts with a lifelong interest in a time which he too thinks doesn't pass. For Park, the passage of time is not so much an il…"

-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

"Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective tim…"

-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

"Until now, I've been writing about "now" as if it were literally an instant of time, but of course human faculties are not infinitely precise. It is simplistic to suppose that physical events and men…"

-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

"Psychologists have devised some ingenious ways to help unpack the human "now." Consider how we run those jerky movie frames together into a smooth and continuous stream. This is known as the "phi phe…"

-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

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10. Cosmos

By: Carl Sagan

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousn… read more

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"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

11. Hyperspace

By: Michio Kaku

4.18

Format: 342 pages,

How many dimensions do you live in? Three? Maybe that's all your commonsense sense perception perce… read more

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12. Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

By: Michio Kaku

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us… read more

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13. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher

By: Richard P. Feynman

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacheris a publishing first… read more

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14. The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe

By: Julian Barbour

4.00

Format: None pages,

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15. Three Roads To Quantum Gravity

By: Lee Smolin

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

"It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject."--Scientific American In Thr… read more

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16. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

By: John Gribbin

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it pr… read more

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"If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . ."

-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

"...it is not the way of science to sit idly back and hope that someone will come up with a "better" answer to our problems. In the absence of a better answer, we have to face up to the implications o…"

-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

"In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...…"

-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

"Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - part…"

-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

17. The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality

By: Richard Panek

3.69

Format: 47 pages,

The epic, behind-the-scenes story of an astounding gap in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos. I… read more

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18. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

By: Albert Einstein , Robert W. Lawson , Nigel Calder

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

An accesible version of Einstein's masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself According t… read more

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19. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

By: Michio Kaku

3.75

Format: 273 pages,

A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible--from death rays and force fields to inv… read more

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20. A Briefer History of Time

By: Stephen Hawking , Leonard Mlodinow

4.26

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scie… read more

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"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"It is just that modern physicists seem to have more imaginative ways of naming new particles and phenomena - they no longer restrict themselves to Greek!"

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"طالما أن الكون له بداية سيكون في استطاعتنا افتراض أن له خالقًا. أما إذا كان الكون حقا مكتملا في حد ذاته، وليس له حد ولا حرف، فلن تكون له بداية ولا نهاية: فهو ببساطة موجود."

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"There is a good chance that the study of the early universe and the requirements of mathematical consistency will lead us to a complete unified theory within the lifetime of some of us who are around…"

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

21. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

By: Brian Greene

3.82

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universeand The Fabric of the Cosmoscomes his most expa… read more

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7 must-read audiobook books like A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

Transform Your Habits

Why Evolution Is True

Jerry A. Coyne

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.08

Transform Your Habits

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

4.16

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Transform Your Habits

Why Evolution Is True

Jerry A. Coyne

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.08

Transform Your Habits

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss

3.94

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The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

4.16

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