After official institutions and amateur astronomers record a planet-killer solar flare and announce it to the world, people from all over the planet react in different ways. Others in shock and denial and others in their own particular way. In the end, all that matters is that mankind is about to perish and one unique traveler far away will be the only proof that Earth ever existed...

On the 8th of January 2012 a man who discovered at 21 that he had motor neurone disease, which usually means a few years' degeneration then death, celebrated his 70th birthday. Stephen Hawking was born January 8, 1942 in Oxford, England. Even as a child, he exhibited a fascination for mathematics, science and the sky. At age 21, while studying cosmology at Cambridge, Stephen was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). In the two years after this live changing announcement; Step...

TV and movies will have you believing that black holes are huge holes in space and anything that falls into them is lost for all time – possibly falling into another universe or another time, or even falling forever.You may think that black holes run around in space like huge vacuum cleaners sucking up everything in their path. This is not true.But what actually is a black hole and what do they do? This book will help you find out.LearningIsland.com believes in the v...

Strange things are happening in deep space, and then closer to home, and then closer; someone has pulled the plug on the universe.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Matter of Magnitude is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Al Sevcik is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Al Sevcik then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

What is there to do, when you have the power to do anything? John can fly, he can see through solid objects, he can take over the world and give it back again, but what he's looking for is something else…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

This book is for every age, anyone who can read and who is interested in what time is, will be the main audience. It explains why people think time is relative, what is time, and gives the audience examples of different devices to "measure" time.If you want to know how to better explain to your kids, your friends or your students about what Time means, then in this book you will find the answers.At first, let me tell you how and why I wrote this book.Long ago, in th...

You see it every night in the night sky, but how much do you really know about the moon? Here are some things you may not know.Do you know:What one thing is different about our moon from every other moon we have found?What kind of atmosphere is there on the moon?How many sides of the moon do we see?What happened to the footprints of the astronauts that stood on the moon?Find out in this book, and surprise and amaze your friends with these fun fact...

Decades ago, I was walking home late on a very cold January night, when I had the most mysterious experience of my entire life: I saw, with my own eyes, a ghost!I did not even believe in such things at the time, yet naturally, the event left me with a sense of awe, wonderment, and insatiable curiosity about things that I had hitherto thought impossible. Read about what happened to me that night in "A True Ghost Story", and ask yourself whether such an occurrence would not make a "b...

What was the extraordinary connection between Dr. Livermore's sudden disappearance and the coming of a new satellite to the Earth?

A man determined to show that time travel is possible, decides to proceed with an experiment, ignoring the gut feeling of his partner as it lacks scientific basis.Sometimes, science and technology alone is not enough. We have to rely on our ‘sixth sense’; that indescribable feeling we sometimes get, designed to let us know that danger is close at hand.We ignore this primeval instinct at our peril. One man discovers the hard way that in some cases, all we have to go on is ou...

A sci fi short story.The number of earthquakes had been increasing dramatically, they didn't know why.When they found the answer, it was impossible, yet true and human society had nowhere left to turn.All of humankind's history, the knowledge of its existence, was left with one man, he was the Last Human.