Mr. Tompkins is back The mild-mannered bank clerk with the short attention span and vivid imagination has inspired, charmed, and informed young and old alike since the publication of the hugely successful Mr Tompkins in Paperback (by George Gamow) in 1965. Now, this highly affable character returns to embark on a set of adventures that explore the extreme edges of the universe--the smallest, the largest, the fastest, and the farthest. Just by following the experiences and dreams of Mr. Tompkins, readers discover and come to know the merry dance of cosmic mysteries, including: Einstein's...
Mr. Tompkins is back The mild-mannered bank clerk with the short attention span and vivid imagination has inspired, charmed, and informed young and o...
Mr. Tompkins is back The mild-mannered bank clerk with the short attention span and vivid imagination has inspired, charmed, and informed young and old alike since the publication of the hugely successful Mr Tompkins in Paperback (by George Gamow) in 1965. Now, this highly affable character returns to embark on a set of adventures that explore the extreme edges of the universe--the smallest, the largest, the fastest, and the farthest. Just by following the experiences and dreams of Mr. Tompkins, readers discover and come to know the merry dance of cosmic mysteries, including: Einstein's...
Mr. Tompkins is back The mild-mannered bank clerk with the short attention span and vivid imagination has inspired, charmed, and informed young and o...
Originally published in Great Britain and now updated and available for the first time in a U.S. edition, this book is a critically acclaimed work by a renowned theologian-scientist.
Russell Stannard is known for cutting through highly technical data and presenting it clearly and simply. In Science and the Renewal of Belief he sheds light on ways in which science and religion influence each other and can help each other. Science and logic cannot establish belief, he says, but belief can be confirmed and renewed with the changed perspective of modern science.
The many...
Originally published in Great Britain and now updated and available for the first time in a U.S. edition, this book is a critically acclaimed work ...
This science fiction adventure story is set in the country of Erasia, on planet Orb. Here time runs backwards. You are raised up out of the ground as an old person full of experience, knowing everything about the future. As you dutifully follow through the main events of your life, as mapped out for you by the Goddess of the underworld from where you came, all knowledge of them is progressively erased. Ultimately, as a helpless baby knowing nothing, you are inserted in your mother's womb. Nine months later: oblivion. But the man, Nomolos, yearns for the freedom to decide for himself what he...
This science fiction adventure story is set in the country of Erasia, on planet Orb. Here time runs backwards. You are raised up out of the ground as ...
