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The Comfort of Distant Stars
'This audacious, brilliant novel has it all' CHIKA UNIGWE 'Expansive, elegant and pathbreaking' TOPE FOLARIN 'An equation of life, time and magic' NICK MAKOHA Ezeani is no ordinary child. He...
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity: A New Understanding of Space, Time and
The Holy Grail of modern physics is the search for a 'quantum gravity' view of the universe that unites Einstein's general relativity with quantum theory. Until recently, these two foundational...
The World According to Physics
Financial Times Best Books of 2020: Science Waterstones Best Books of 2020: Popular Science Symmetry Magazine Top Physics Books of 2020 Shining a light on the most profound insights revealed...
Alexander Wood's The Physics Of Music
$100.00 AUD
Edition: 7th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of science and art stands one of the most enduring works in acoustics: The Physics of Music,...
Photoelasticity: The Selected Scientific Papers Of M. M. Frocht
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of optics and structural mechanics lies a discipline that transformed how engineers visualize and measure stress —...
A Treatise On Photo-Elasticity
$115.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: poor boards - discoloured and stained; binding remains tight; internally sound. price clipped dj....
Oliphant
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew scientific minds of the twentieth century burned as fiercely or as controversially as Sir Mark Oliphant — physicist, humanitarian, and one of the...
Physics for Rock Stars: Making the Laws of the Universe Work for You
Pop science that makes physics understandable, funny, and even glamorous From the host of the History channel's Brad Meltzer's Decoded: the laws of the universe like you've never experienced them...
A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford
Born in colonial New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford grew up on the frontier-a different world from Cambridge, to which he won a scholarship at the age of twenty-four. His work revolutionized...
50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know
We encounter physics before we've even left the house in the morning; an alarm clock tracks time, a mirror reflects light waves and our mobile phones rely on satellites held...
20Th Century Discovery: The Planets
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated science communicators comes a thrilling guided tour of our solar...
Einstein's Universe: The Layman's Guide
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to live in Einstein's universe? Nigel Calder's Einstein's Universe: The Layman's Guide answers...
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the beginning, there was fire — and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg was there to...
The Theory (Aviation Theory)
$45.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor pilots and aviation enthusiasts who demand nothing less than mastery of the skies, this authoritative volume published...
A Physical Introduction To Fluid Mechanics
$60.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodCondition remarks: light bumping on corners and spine. At the intersection of rigorous science and practical engineering lies A...
Jet Engine Manual
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the dawn of the jet age, when the roar of turbines was reshaping the skies, Jet Engine Manual by E. Mangham and A....
A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter And The End Of The Arms Race
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the shadow of the Cold War's most terrifying possibility, A Path Where No Man Thought presents a rigorous and...
The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Science And Technology
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA landmark achievement in scientific publishing, The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of Science and Technology stands as one of the most comprehensive and visually...
Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Traveller's Guide to Blue Moons and
*Fully revised and updated for the 21st century* The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an odyssey into the deepest,...
Strange Universe: An Offbeat Tour of Our World and beyond
An illuminating and entertaining scientific exploration of everyday oddities Bob Berman's "Strange Universe "is a unique guidebook to some of the more bizarre moments in astronomy and astonishingly true facts...
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions
The story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrums In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of...
On the Equality of All Things: Physics and Philosophy
'The poet of physics' returns with a dazzling exploration of our place in the universe What can we really know about the world around us? Or is there beauty in...
The Fourth Dimension
The book titled The Fourth Dimension by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe
Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass....
Feynman's Lost Lecture: Motion of Planets Around the Sun
Richard Feynman's fame rests to a large extent on his picaresque exploits, but he was also a theoretical physicist of some significance. The discovery of the notes for his major...
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: Overview of the New Physics
The book titled The Dancing Wu Li Masters: Overview of the New Physics by the author Gary Zukav. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Revising Basic Physics
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor students seeking a rigorous yet accessible foundation in the principles that govern the physical world, Revising Basic...
Physics Of The Earth
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBeneath our feet lies a world of staggering complexity — a dynamic, layered planet shaped by forces operating...
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn's rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into...
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was...
Space, Time, And The New Mathematics
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of science and human imagination, Space, Time, and the New Mathematics assembles some of the...
The Known Unknowns: The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos
Our understanding of ourselves and the cosmos has advanced immeasurably over the last five hundred years of modern science, yet many fundamental mysteries of existence persist. How did our Universe...
The Meteorite Hunters: On the Trail of Extraterrestrial Treasures and
Planet Earth is under attack: every day, millions of meteoroids plummet through our atmosphere. Fortunately, the majority are minuscule - too small to survive the scouring of Earth's atmosphere, let...
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: NEW SCIENTIST * WATERSTONES * SUNDAY TIMES 'A...
The Dream: The Extraordinary Revelation Of Who We Are And Where We Are
$12.00 AUD
David Icke has become world-famous for his work exposing today's fast-unfolding global dystopia more than three decades before it became reality. They laughed then. But he didn't stop there. He...
The Speech Chain: The Physics And Biology Of Spoken Language
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of physics, biology, and linguistics lies one of the most remarkable phenomena in human experience...
Surviving The Holocaust: Nuclear Weapons Effects Survival And Protection
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of the atomic age, Surviving the Holocaust: Nuclear Weapons Effects Survival and Protection presents one...
Theory of Vibration with Applications
This fourth edition of this volume features a new chapter on computational methods that presents the basic principles on which most modern computer programs are developed. It introduces an example...
The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
A Guardian Best Science Book of the Year The first biography - 'a stunning achievement' (Kai Bird, American Prometheus) - of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist...
Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth
From the 18th century vicar who was the first to look up at the night's sky and suggest there was something very dark and extraordinarily heavy that was moving the...
The Art of Physics: How ideas from science can transform your life
'Exceptionally interesting' - Alain de Botton 'Fascinating ... You'll never again view your own world in quite the same way. A delight to read' - Ian Stewart ' A book...
Just Visiting This Planet: Merlin Answers More Questions about
*Revised and updated for the twenty-first century* In this updated, illustrated companion volume to Merlin's Tour of the Universe, we visit again with Merlin, a timeless space traveler from Planet...
Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Traveller's Guide to Blue Moons and
*Fully revised and updated for the 21st century* The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an odyssey into the deepest,...
Scientific American Reader
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the cutting edge of mid-twentieth-century discovery, Scientific American Reader presents a sweeping panorama of human knowledge, assembling...
The Neutrino: Ghost Particle Of The Atom
$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. At the very edge of human perception lies a particle so elusive, so ghostly...
An Approach To Modern Physics
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Large tears now repaired with non-acidic tape.At the dawn of the atomic age, An Approach to Modern Physics...
Nanocosm: Nanotechnology And The Big Changes Coming From The Inconceivably Small
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the invisible frontier where atoms become architecture, Nanocosm presents one of the most audacious scientific revolutions of the modern era — nanotechnology — and...
Global Warming: The Complete Briefing
John Houghton's market-leading textbook is now in full colour and includes the latest IPCC findings, making it the definitive guide to climate change. Written for students across a wide range...