ISBN10: 061834151X, ISBN13: 9780618341511, [publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt] Hardcover First Edition First edition 2005, first printing, numbers line starts with 1. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Hardcover with DJ. Condition new, square tight and clean book, no edgewear, corners not bumped, no markings of any kind, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent pages, not a reminder. DJ new, bright, no edgewear, no tears, no chips, price not clipped. 8vo, 384 pages.
[Livingston, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Date: 2005. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. 2005. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN 061834151x 9780618341511 [US]

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, Date: 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 364 pages; Physical desc. : xx, 364 p., 8 p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. Bibliography: p. [313]-334. Includes index. Subject: Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910-) --Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir (1882-1944) --Astrophysicists --India --Biography. Summary: In August 1930, on a voyage from Madras to London, a young Indian looked up at the stars and contemplated their fate. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar--Chandra, as he was called--calculated that certain stars would suffer a strange and violent death, collapsing to virtually nothing. This extraordinary claim, the first mathematical description of black holes, brought Chandra into direct conflict with Sir Arthur Eddington, one of the greatest astrophysicists of the day. Eddington ridiculed the young man's idea at a meeting of the Royal Astronomy Society in 1935, sending Chandra into an intellectual and emotional tailspin--and hindering the progress of astrophysics for nearly forty years. Empire of the Stars is the dramatic story of this intellectual debate and its implications for twentieth-century science. Arthur I. Miller traces the idea of black holes from early notions of ""dark stars"" to the modern concepts of wormholes, quantum foam, and baby universes. In the process, he follows ...

ISBN10: 061834151X, ISBN13: 9780618341511, [publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin] Hardcover First Edition Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 364 pages; Physical desc. : xx, 364 p., 8 p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. Bibliography: p. [313]-334. Includes index. Subject: Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910-) --Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir (1882-1944) --Astrophysicists --India --Biography. Summary: In August 1930, on a voyage from Madras to London, a young Indian looked up at the stars and contemplated their fate. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar--Chandra, as he was called--calculated that certain stars would suffer a strange and violent death, collapsing to virtually nothing. This extraordinary claim, the first mathematical description of black holes, brought Chandra into direct conflict with Sir Arthur Eddington, one of the greatest astrophysicists of the day. Eddington ridiculed the young man's idea at a meeting of the Royal Astronomy Society in 1935, sending Chandra into an intellectual and emotional tailspin--and hindering the progress of astrophysics for nearly forty years. Empire of the Stars is the dramatic story of this intellectual debate and its implications for twentieth-century science. Arthur I. Miller traces the idea of black holes from early notions of "dark stars" to the modern concepts of ...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Date: 2005-04-25. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. Very good hardcover with DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). 1st printing with full number line. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Text clean. Exterior looks very nice. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 2005. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN 061834151X 9780618341511 [US]

ISBN10: 061834151X, ISBN13: 9780618341511, [publisher: Mariner Books] Hardcover Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.6
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Date: 2005. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2005. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company ISBN 061834151X 9780618341511 [US]

Houghton Mifflin Company 2005 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine jacket Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked. 364pp. In a very nice unclipped jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.

ISBN10: 061834151X, ISBN13: 9780618341511, [publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company] Hardcover First Edition 1st printing. Tight and unmarked. 364pp. In a very nice unclipped jacket. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
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ISBN10: 061834151X, ISBN13: 9780618341511, [publisher: Mariner Books] Hardcover New
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