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Mathletics John Barrow The Measure of Our Days Jerome Groopman The Elusive Magic Bullet John Mann Einstein's Miraculous Years John Stachel  

Gravitational Waves Discovered: Einstein Was Right Theory of relativity confirmed. A new era in the study of the universe, black holes and the fabric of spacetime. Important Italian contribution di Paolo Virtuani At 10.50 and 45 seconds (Italian time) on 14 September 2015 the two LIGO detectors in the US (in Washington State and Louisiana) recorded something unusual. Then they started testing. And on Thursday, at 4.30 pm in Pisa (a few minutes before a similar press conference in Washington) the official announcement of the discovery of gravitational waves was finally made. For physics and science in general, 11 February 2016 will go down as an historic date. The existence of gravitational waves was predicted almost exactly a century ago, in November 1915, when Albert Einstein illustrated his general theory of relativity, of which they are a cornerstone. However, until now their existence has never been demonstrated. The news can rightly aspire to the title of “discovery of the c...

Einstein's Miraculous Years by John Stachel   Secrets of the Old One by Jeremy Bernstein Albert Einstein by Hilaire Cuny  Einstein, Polanyi, and the Laws of Nature by Lydia Jaeger

Cecilia Bartoli: The Passion of Song by Kim Chernin Albert Einstein by Hilaire Cuny  Mozart by Marcia Davenport  The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges  The Wandering Saints of the Early Middle Ages by Eleanor Duckett  The Inner Voice by Renee Fleming  The Green Stick 1 by Malcolm Muggeridge  John Courtney Murray: Theologian in Conflict by Donald Pelotte  

Bruckner and Mahler Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan Secrets of the Old One by Jeremy Bernstein Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas The Life of Graham Greene 2 by Norman Sherry Pius XII: The World's Shepherd by Louis de Wohl American Bishop at the Vatican Council by Robert Tracy Vladimir Soloviev: Russian Mystic by Paul Allen The Man Who Sold the Milky Way by David Levy

The Romance of Risk by Lynn Ponton Einstein's Miraculous Years by John Stachel   The Myth of Alzheimer's by Peter Whitehouse