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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...

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...

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...

'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...

*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...

*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,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the threshold of the invisible world, where matter dissolves into pure energy and the rules of everyday...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering, Digital Image Processing stands as a definitive authority in its field, presenting the theoretical foundations...

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...

Edition: 3rd rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped dj.,; small glue residue on fep. What lies at the very heart of all matter? Isaac...

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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat makes the world tick — and why? Why It Is So is Julius Sumner Miller's passionate and...

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...

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...

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...

There is a secret world beyond the reaches of our human senses in which things behave entirely differently to the world we can see. In this quantum realm, particles tunnel...

Albert Einstein's celebrated remark that 'God does not play dice' was his response to a set of new scientific ideas now known as quantum physics. These theories threatened the ordered...

Nobel laureate Erwin Schroedinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart...

After the economic meltdown of 2008, many pundits placed the blame on 'complex financial instruments' like derivatives, and the physicists and mathematicians who dreamed them up. But a young academic...

New York Times bestselling author of Undeniable and former host of "Bill Nye the Science Guy" issues a new challenge to today's generation: to make a cleaner, more efficient, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew men straddled the worlds of science and power with such...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew lives in the history of science burn as brightly — or as controversially — as that of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew engineering achievements have reshaped the modern world as profoundly as the jet engine, and The...

Knowledge is power... A landmark new series from a prize-winning scientist and communicator In this major trilogy, Sean Carroll opens up the world of physics and shows that you don't...

The best-selling physicist returns with a thrilling account of the search for the 'god equation' This is the story of a quest- to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the dawn of the quantum age, one of the greatest scientific minds of the twentieth century stood...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWhat if time is not the straight, unyielding river we imagine, but a landscape riddled with hidden currents,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Penguin Dictionary of Physics stands as an authoritative and indispensable reference work, presenting clear, concise...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat lies at the very edges of existence — before the first moment of creation and beyond the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Poor. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Aged but intact. At the intersection of scientific inquiry and metaphysical...

Well known for its accessibility to graduate students and experimental physicists, this volume emphasizes physical arguments and minimizes theoretical formalism. The second edition of this classic text features revisions by...

In this guide to science and society, a cosmologist argues that physics must embrace the excluded, listen to the unheard, and be unafraid of being wrong. Years ago, cosmologist Stephon...

Still relevant decades after its 1950 publication, this legendary reference text on aircraft stress analysis is considered the best book on the subject. It emphasizes basic structural theory, which remains...

This second edition includes over 4500 entries to provide an up-to-date guide to physics. Cross-referenced, it also covers related sciences such as physical chemistry, astronomy, medical physics, computing and engineering....

J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the...

This volume forms part of the large international Theophrastus project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh and others. Together with volumes comprising the text and translations,...

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 received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes for atomic events. This idea led to the outlandish belief that...

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING SERIES 'Neat, and extremely simple: only a deep thinker such as Sean Carroll could introduce the complexity of Einstein's general relativity in such a luminous and straightforward...

The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific achievement-but...

The discovery in 1992 of "cosmic ripples" - slight variations in the temperature of ancient radiation left over from the "big bang" - resulted in sensational headlines. This book goes...

Following the emergence of quantum computing, the subsequent quantum revolution will be that of interconnecting individual quantum computers at the global level. In the same way that classical computers only...

The mystery of gravity has captivated us for centuries. But what is gravity and how does it work? This engaging book delves into the bizarre and often counter-intuitive world of...

A luminous guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal that the scope of the universe is greater, and more beautiful, than we ever imagined There is...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The Meaning of Relativity stands as one of the most important scientific...

'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever known before? And why is mathematics so good at...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner. A groundbreaking work of political science and environmental...