Astronomy and cosmology : a modern course

Process and reality : an essay in cosmology

Gifford lectures ;

Feasting with cannibals : an essay on Kwakiutl cosmology

Goodbye, Descartes : the end of logic and the search for a new cosmology of the mind

Schaum's outline of theory and problems of astronomy

Theory and problems of astronomy

Schaum's outline series

Physics facts -- Sky and telescopes -- Terrestrial planets -- Jovian planets and their satellites -- Debris -- Interstellar medium and star formation -- Main-sequence stars and the sun -- Stellar evolution -- Stellar remnants (white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes) -- Galaxies and clusters -- Cosmology -- Physical and astronomical constants -- Units and unit conversions -- Algebra rules -- History of astronomy timeline.

The big bang

Introduction to cosmology -- Origins of modern cosmology -- Observational cosmology -- Evidence for the Big Bang -- Cosmological models -- The first millisecond -- The thermonuclear detonation of the universe -- The primeval fireball emerges -- The origin of the galaxies -- The evolution of the galaxies -- The theory of galaxy formation -- Giant clusters of galaxies -- Radio galaxies and quasars -- The formation of the stars -- The morphology of galaxies -- The origin of the heavy elements -- Into the infinite future -- Alternatives to the Big Bang.

Symbolic immortality : the Tlingit potlatch of the nineteenth century

Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry

Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.

Outline of the Mortuary Rites -- The Person and the Social Order -- The "Outside" and the "Inside": The Tlingit View of the Human Being -- Shagoon and the Social Person: The Cultural Ideal -- The Aristocrat as the Ideal Person -- The Funeral -- Cosmology, Eschatology, and the Nature of Death -- The Deceased, the Mourners, and the Opposites: Actors in the Ritual Drama -- Grief, Mourning, and the Politics of the Funeral -- The Potlatch -- Potlatch as a Mortuary Ritual -- Competition and Cooperation, Hierarchy and Equality -- Death in Northwestern North America and Beyond -- Tlingit Mortuary Complex, a Comparative Perspective -- Conclusion: Tlingit Mortuary Complex and the Anthropology of Death.

The language of the night : essays on fantasy and science fiction

Introduction

A citizen of Mondath.

Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons? -- Dreams Must Explain Themselves -- National Book Award Acceptance Speech -- The Child and the Shadow -- Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction -- From Elfland to Poughkeepsie -- American SF and The Other -- Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown -- Do-It-Yourself Cosmology.

Introduction to Rocannon's World -- Introduction to Planet of Exile -- Introduction to City of Illusions -- Introduction to The Word for World Is Forest -- Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness -- Is Gender Necessary? -- The Staring Eye -- The Modest One -- Introduction to Star Songs of an Old Primate.

Introduction to The Altered I (excerpt) -- Talking About Writing -- Escape Routes.

The Stalin in the Soul -- The Stone Ax and the Muskoxen.

Bibliographic checklist of Le Guin's work in English

Curious minds : twenty-seven scientists describe what inspired them to choose their paths

A family affair / The bungling apprentice / Mountain gorilla and yeshiva boy / Safety in numbers / My father and Albert Einstein / A midcentury modern education / Cosmology calls / Member of the club / A strange beautiful girl in a car / How we may have become what we are / Patterns and the participant observer / Mixing it up / A childhood between realities / Dolittle and Darwin / One way of making a social scientist / Brains through the back door / The objects of our lives / Intellectual promiscuity / Tom Swift Jr. and the power of ideas / A day in the life of a child / Toward the worm / The everyday practice of physics in Silver City, New Mexico / The math of the real world / At large in the mountains / The making of a scientist / What I want to be when I grow up / The gift of solitude

How the universe works [DVD]

How the universe works (Television program)

Big bang / Black holes / Alien galaxies / Extreme stars

Extreme planets / Supernovas / Alien solar systems / Alien moons

Our cosmic habitat

The whole shebang : a state-of-the-universe(s) report