The Universe in 100 Colors

The Universe in 100 Colors
Author: Tyler Thrasher
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2024-09-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1632174928

At the intersection of science, art, and design, this must-have coffee table book highlights 100 mind-blowing colors that you’ve likely never seen before. From Instagram sensation and self-described "mad scientist artist" Tyler Thrasher and creator of the popular Matter subscription box Terry Mudge, this book comes with a foreword by Hank Green. This gorgeous compendium contains 100 amazing colors that you might otherwise live your whole life unaware of. These colors exist in the strangest of places, and serve extremely specific functions in nature, or were human-made with one goal in mind. In this oversized, design-forward book you'll find entries for each of the 100 colors, organized in gradient order, with structural and impossible colors set at the end. Each entry has a 2-page spread with a full-page image of the color plus snappy descriptions, and easy-to-understand category symbols. Some entries include diagrams. Even includes structural colors and colors outside the range of human visibility! Also included is a brief introduction to color theory, a myth-busting section, plus index, glossary, and notes. Here is your universe in living color: Cosmic Latte: The average color of the universe. Dragon’s Blood: A tropical tree that bleeds red resin with incredible medicinal potential. Sonoluminescence: A color created by sound! Eigengrau: The color we perceive in the absence of light (and no, it's not "pitch black"). Perfect for anyone who loves science or art, and bursting with astonishing facts and stunning photography, The Universe in 100 Colors is a wonder for the senses.

Coloring the Universe

Coloring the Universe
Author: Travis Rector
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015-11-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1602232733

With a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture; we find them on billboards, in commercials, and on our computers. But they also invite questions: Is this what outer space really looks like? Are the colors real? How are these images made? "Coloring the Universe" uses accessible language to describe how these giant telescopes work, what scientists learn with them, and how they are used to make color images. Both informative and beautiful, this book is filled with brilliant images of deep space as well as an insider s perspective by the people who make them."

Tasting the Universe

Tasting the Universe
Author: Maureen Seaberg
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1601636679

“Explores a dimension of synesthesia long encountered in reports of synesthetes: its relation to mystical and artistic vision . . . fascinating accounts.”—Patricia Lynne Duffy, author of Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens What happens when a journalist turns her lens on a mystery happening in her own life? Maureen Seaberg did just that and lived for a year exploring her synesthesia. The wondrous brain trait is often described as blended senses, but for Maureen, synesthesia is not an idle “brain tick” that can be explained away by science (although it does offer some important clues). It is a unique ability to tap into and reveal a greater creative universe and even the divine. Join her as she visits top neuroscientists, rock stars, violinists, other synesthetes, philosophers, savants, quantum physicists and even Tibetan lamas in her journey toward the truth. Step into Maureen’s shimmering alternate universe as she explores this fascinating subject, combining clear explanations of groundbreaking scientific research with an exploration of deeper spiritual truths. “Tasting the Universe is not only the brilliant writing of a top, professional journalist looking in on a strange but romantic phenomena, but it is the writing of a person who could embrace the feelings of those she interviews, because author Seaberg herself possesses this remarkable gift of synesthesia. I predict when you pick up this book, you will be unable to put it down, as it will open up for you a whole new world in our universe.”—The Amazing Kreskin

Your Place in the Universe

Your Place in the Universe
Author: Jason Chin
Publisher: Holiday House
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0823448789

Explore the known Universe and consider its mind-boggling scale in this crisply illustrated, well-researched picture book from Caldecott Medalist Jason Chin. Winner of the Cook Prize! Most eight-year-olds are about five times as tall as this book . . . but only half as tall as an ostrich, which is half as tall as a giraffe . . . twenty times smaller than a California Redwood! How do they compare to the tallest buildings? To Mt. Everest? To stars, galaxy clusters, and . . . the universe? Jason Chin, the award-winning author and illustrator of Grand Canyon has once again found a way to make a complex subject--size, scale and almost unimaginable distance--accessible and understandable to readers of all ages. Meticulously researched and featuring the highly detailed artwork for which he is renowned, this is How Much is a Million for the new millenium, sure to be an immediate hit with kids looking for an engaging way to delve into perspective, astronomy, and astrophysics. Curious readers will love the extensive supplementary material included in the back of the back of the book An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book A New England Book Award Finalist A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year!

Light & Color Theory: Find the Light & Color of Your Aura and Discover the Deeper Meaning Behind Each Light and Color of the Human Universe

Light & Color Theory: Find the Light & Color of Your Aura and Discover the Deeper Meaning Behind Each Light and Color of the Human Universe
Author: Ryan Hoskins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2019-11-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781641842266

Light & Color Theory is the culmination of a lifelong effort to explain the deep wisdom that lives within the lights and colors of the Human Universe. It will foster your imagination, spark intriguing dialogue, and help you understand the essentials of human behavior.Everyone's Mind is a Light and everyone's Body is a Color. When the Light of the Mind shines on the Color of the Body, we discover the Light & Color State of the Being, and that is how we can truly understand all the associated Elemental Energies contained in our human form.In Light & Color Theory you will learn that each of the 9 Lights and each of the 9 Colors of the Human Universe represent an Elemental Energy. Learn the dynamics and inner characteristics of each Light and of each Color. Discover the true meaning behind the Light and Color of Power, the Light and Color of Victory, the Light and Color of Peace, and the 6 other Lights and Colors of the Human Universe.

Mystery Colors

Mystery Colors
Author: Joe Bartos
Publisher: Centennial Books
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781951274221

Looking for an enjoyable, relaxing activity that will provide countless hours of fun? Look no further. Grab your coloring pencils or pens and start filling in the drawings in "Mystery Colors." Soon, you’ll uncover the beautiful images hidden on each page. Color by numbers and discover the magic! Each illustration throughout features a magical scene full of intricate designs. From coloring in famous landmarks, animals, landscapes, people and more, these stunning works of art—once completed—will bring joy to your life. Even better: Once completed, you can tear out the pages and use them for decorating or give them as presents to your nearest and dearest. Mystery Colors will surely unleash your inner Picasso.

The World According to Color

The World According to Color
Author: James Fox
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2022-04-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 125027852X

A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. We have an extraordinary connection to color—we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors—black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green—and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history. Through a series of stories and vignettes, the book then traces these meanings to show how they morphed and multiplied and, ultimately, how they reveal a great deal about the societies that produced them: reflecting and shaping their hopes, fears, prejudices, and preoccupations. Fox also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give to hue. And using his background as an art historian, he explores many of the milestones in the history of art—from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein—in a fresh way. Fox also weaves in literature, philosophy, cinema, archaeology, and art—moving from Monet to Marco Polo, early Japanese ink artists to Shakespeare and Goethe to James Bond. By creating a new history of color, Fox reveals a new story about humans and our place in the universe: second only to language, color is the greatest carrier of cultural meaning in our world.

Crayola ® Out-of-This-World Space Colors

Crayola ® Out-of-This-World Space Colors
Author: Laura Hamilton Waxman
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1728408709

From red planets to blue stars, space is full of color! Introduce young readers to the sun, moon, planets, stars, and more in this high-interest look at the myriad colors of space.

Wonders of the Universe

Wonders of the Universe
Author: Professor Brian Cox
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2011-03-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0007413378

Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet. Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our universe as we've never seen it before.

Probable Impossibilities

Probable Impossibilities
Author: Alan Lightman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0593081323

The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.