An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe

5 best books like An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe (Leonard Susskind): Isis Unveiled, The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia, The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos, Blackstock's Collections: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant, Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything

Isis Unveiled

Author	H.P. Blavatsky
ISBN	0911500030

Blavatsky...
dear occultist,

... was a genius and the fact that she wrote so brilliantly in English, which was not even her native language, is amazing. Alas, the thesis in Vol. 1, while still valid and which involves her evidence and arguments that science is lacking when it endeavors...

The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia

Author	Paul Devereux
ISBN	0140195408

Many people assume that experimentation with hallucinogens began with Timothy Leary and the psychedelic revolution of the fifties and sixties. In fact, as this illuminating study demonstrates, psychedelics have been used by human societies in every part of the world for ritual and spiritual purposes...

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

Author	Mario Livio
ISBN	0471399760

Advance Praise for The Accelerating Universe""The Accelerating Universe" is not only an informative book about modern cosmology. It is rich storytelling and, above all, a celebration of the human mind in its quest for beauty in all things."
--Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams

"This...

Blackstock's Collections: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant

Author	Gregory L. Blackstock
ISBN	1568985797

Modern life is an ever-accelerating barrage of people, buildings, vehicles, creatures, and things. How much can a curious mind take in? And what can it do with all the data? Gregory L. Blackstock, a retired Seattle pot washer, draws order out of all the chaos with a pencil, a black marker, and some crayons.Blackstock...

Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything

Author	George Musser
ISBN	0374298513

What is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally ask. Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape. Yet over the past few decades, physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time: nonlocality-the ability...