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second book, "The
Abyss of Time: an architect's history of the Golden Section"
is launched today ( 1st July 2008 ).
"Abyss"
is a monograph by Martin Hutchinson on the possible relationships
between the Fibonacci Series, ancient architectural methods, and
systems of weights and measures. Our first book,
"Relativity
in Curved
Spacetime" (ISBN 955706807) is
available from most booksellers priced at
£10-00 in the UK, and $15-00 in the US for the paperback.
The hardback version is due out on 15th July, priced at £15-00 in the UK, and $40-00 in the US. ForeWord
Clarion Reviews gives it five stars, as does BookReview.com .
It's an oversized-format book (234*156mm),
nearly 400 pages, with over 200 b&w diagrams and illustrations.
The first four chapters cover the basics of
lightspeed, E=mc2,
spacetime curvature and relativity theory, in an easily-accessible
form. The rest of the book gets more technical, but should still be
accessible to the sort of person who likes TV science
programmes such as "Horizon". The strict chaptering system
means that it's
easy to skip over any sections that you aren't interested in,
without getting lost. We think that there's
several booksworth of information here, and if you
don't want to
read a particular chapter, you can always flip through and look at the
pictures!
This is the book for anyone who
bought Stephen Hawking's
"Brief History of Time" in the hope of learning a bit about cosmology
or relativity theory, and never got past page three.
The author's site, with thumbnail
previews and a graphical table
of contents, is here.
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