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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

By Mario Livio

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Hardcover:

9781439192368 | Simon & Schuster, May 14, 2013, cover price $26.00

Paperback:

9781439192375 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, May 27, 2014), cover price $16.00

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein: Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

Product Description: We all make mistakes. Nobodyâs perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists...read more

By Jeff Cummings (narrator) and Mario Livio

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9781491518755, titled "Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein, Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, April 8, 2014), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: We all make mistakes.

9781469286044 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, May 14, 2013), cover price $24.99

9781469286020 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 14, 2013), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: We all make mistakes.

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe; Library Edition

By Mario Livio

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9781469286068, titled "Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe, Library Edition" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, May 14, 2013), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: We all make mistakes.

9781469286051, titled "Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe, Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, May 14, 2013), cover price $69.97 | About this edition: We all make mistakes.

The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

Offers a look at phi, or 'the golden ratio,' discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago, examining the meaning of this remarkable mathematical proportion in terms of science, biology, philosophy, and other fields.

By Mario Livio

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Hardcover:

9780767908153 | 1 edition (Broadway Books, October 1, 2002), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Offers a look at phi, or 'the golden ratio,' discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago, examining the meaning of this remarkable mathematical proportion in terms of science, biology, philosophy, and other fields.

Paperback:

9780767908160 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, September 1, 2003), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Offers a look at phi, or 'the golden ratio,' discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago, examining the meaning of this remarkable mathematical proportion in terms of science, biology, philosophy, and other fields.

Miscellaneous:

9780307485526 | Broadway Books, November 12, 2008, cover price $15.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9781491575468 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, December 2, 2014), cover price $9.99

9781469286099 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, May 14, 2013), cover price $14.99

9781469286075 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 14, 2013), cover price $19.99

Prebinding:

9781435298330 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $23.95

9781417616701, titled "Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number" | Turtleback Books, September 23, 2003, cover price $28.10 | About this edition: Offers a look at phi, or 'the golden ratio,' discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago, examining the meaning of this remarkable mathematical proportion in terms of science, biology, philosophy, and other fields.

The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number; Library Edition

Product Description: Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1...read more

By Mario Livio

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9781469286112, titled "The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number: Library Edition" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, May 14, 2013), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality.

9781469286105, titled "The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number, Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, May 14, 2013), cover price $49.97 | About this edition: Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality.

Your Ticket to the Universe: A Guide to Exploring the Cosmos

Product Description: An entertaining and accessible trip to the most interesting stops in the cosmos. Accompanied by dramatic visuals, Your Ticket to the Universe is a hybrid coffee-table book and field guide.Beginning with our home planet, Your Ticket to the Universe embarks on an entertaining and accessible trip to the most interesting stops known in the cosmos...read more

By Mario Livio (foreword by)

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9781588343758 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, April 2, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An entertaining and accessible trip to the most interesting stops in the cosmos.

Planets to Cosmology: Essential Science in the Final Years of the Hubble Space Telescope: Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Insititute Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland May 3-6, 2004

By Stefano Casertano (editor) and Mario Livio (editor)

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Paperback:

9780521182447 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 24, 2011), cover price $39.99

Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects: Proceedings of the 72nd Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union Held in Haifa, Israel, August 9Â13, 1982

By Mario Livio (editor) and G. Shaviv (editor)

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9789400971202, titled "Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects: Proceedings of the 72nd Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union Held in Haifa, Israel, August 9â13, 1982" | Springer Verlag, October 17, 2011, cover price $229.00

Black Holes: Proceedings of the Space Institute Symposium, Held in Baltimore, Maryland April 23-26, 2007

By Anton Koekemoer (editor) and Mario Livio (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781107005532 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 28, 2011, cover price $139.99

Planets to Cosmology: Essential Science in the Final Years of the Hubble Space Telescope

By Stefano Casertano (editor) and Mario Livio (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521847582 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2006, cover price $204.99

The Local Group As An Astrophysical Laboratory: Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland May 5-8, 2003

Product Description: The Local Group of galaxies consists of the Milky Way and all of its neighbors. The proximity of these galaxies allows for detailed studies of the processes that have led to their formation, structures, and evolution. In particular, studies of the Local Group can test predictions of structure formation that are based on dark energy and cold dark matter...read more

By Thomas M. Brown (editor) and Mario Livio (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521847599 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 30, 2006, cover price $204.99 | About this edition: The Local Group of galaxies consists of the Milky Way and all of its neighbors.

Astrophysics Of Life: Proceedings Of The Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, Held In Baltimore, Maryland May 6-9, 2002

By Mario Livio (editor), I. Neill Reid (editor) and William B. Sparks (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521824903 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 21, 2005, cover price $174.99

A Decade of Extrasolar Planets Around Normal Stars: Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, Held in Baltimore, Maryland May 2-5, 2005

By Mario Livio (editor), Kailash Sahu (editor) and Jeff Valenti (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521897846 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2008), cover price $174.99

Sebastian: Sculptor

By Herbert A. Hauptman (contributor), Mario Livio (contributor), Alfred S. Posamentier (contributor), Sebastian (other contributor) and Hector Tajonar (introduced by)

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Hardcover:

9788475069005 | Turner, July 30, 2010, cover price $100.00

Is God a Mathematician?

By Mario Livio

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Hardcover:

9780743294058 | Simon & Schuster, January 6, 2009, cover price $26.00

9780139261480, titled "Traffic Engineering" | Prentice Hall, March 1, 1990, cover price $95.00 | also contains Traffic Engineering

Paperback:

9780743294065 | Simon & Schuster, January 19, 2010, cover price $16.00

Massive Stars: From Pop III and GRBs to the Milky Way: Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland May 8-11, 2006

Product Description: This collection of papers from the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium on massive stars addresses the many aspects of astrophysics in which these stars play an important role. Review papers are presented from both observational and theoretical work by world experts in the study of these rare stars...read more

By Mario Livio (editor) and Eva Villaver (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521762632 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2009), cover price $159.99 | About this edition: This collection of papers from the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium on massive stars addresses the many aspects of astrophysics in which these stars play an important role.

The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry

Traces the four-thousand-year-old mathematical effort to discover and define the laws of symmetry in nature and the arts, citing the achievements of doomed geniuses Niels Henrick Abel and Evariste Galois to solve the quintic equation and give birth to group theory. By the author of The Golden Ratio. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

By Mario Livio

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Hardcover:

9780743258203 | Simon & Schuster, September 13, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Traces the four-thousand-year-old mathematical effort to discover and define the laws of symmetry, citing the achievements of doomed geniuses Niels Henrick Abel and Evariste Galois to solve the quintic equation and give birth to group theory.

Paperback:

9780743258210 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, August 22, 2006), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Traces the four-thousand-year-old mathematical effort to discover and define the laws of symmetry, citing the achievements of doomed geniuses Niels Henrick Abel and Evariste Galois to solve the quintic equation and give birth to group theory.

The Dark Universe: Matter, Energy and Gravity : Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland, April 2-5, 2001

Product Description: This timely volume presents specially written articles by world experts at an international conference at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The goal of the meeting was to assemble physicists and astronomers working on all aspects of dark matter and theories of gravity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mario Livio and Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium

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9780521822275 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 5, 2004, cover price $204.99 | About this edition: This timely volume presents specially written articles by world experts at an international conference at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

A Decade of Hubble Space Telescope Science: Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, Held in Baltimore, Maryland, April 11-14, 2000

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By Mario Livio (editor), Keith S. Noll (editor), Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium and Massimo Stiavelli (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521824590 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 11, 2003, cover price $239.99

Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Greatest Explosions Since the Big Bang

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By Mario Livio (editor), N. Panagia (editor) and Kailash Sahu (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521791410 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $154.00

The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos

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By Mario Livio

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Hardcover:

9781630261771 | Turner Pub Co, December 25, 2000, cover price $30.95

9780471329695 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9780471399766 | Turner Pub Co, December 25, 2000, cover price $17.95

Miscellaneous:

9780471437147, titled "The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion the Cosmological Constant and the Beauty of the Cosmos" | John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 3, 2001, cover price $17.95

Unsolved Problems in Stellar Evolution: Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Held in Baltimore, Maryland, May 4-7, 1998