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The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye
From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into the 'prehistory' of the universe, Bothwell shows us the universe as we've never seen it before -...
Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists
There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists-Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels...
The Isaac Newton School of Driving: Physics and Your Car
For some people, driving is an art; for others, it's a science. At the Isaac Newton School of Driving, though, every car is a laboratory on wheels and every drive...
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
An intimate portrait of Stephen Hawking -- the man, the friend, and the physicist An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius- not since Albert...
The Art of Physics: How ideas from science can transform your life
Author: Zahaan Bharmal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Exceptionally interesting' - Alain de Botton 'Fascinating ... You'll never again view your own world in quite the same way. A...
The Outline Of Wireless: For The Man In The Street
$15.00 AUD
Author: Ralph StrangerBinding: HardbackPublished: George Newnes, Limited, 1935Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis seminal work, The Outline Of Wireless,...
Venice
$100.00 AUD
Author: Adrian Stokes. John Piper (Illustrator)Binding: HardbackPublished: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling volume, Venice, presents a profound meditation on...
And Then You're Dead: A Scientific Exploration of the World's Most
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What would happen if you took a swim outside a deep-sea submarine wearing only Speedos? How long could you last if you stood on the surface of the sun? How...
Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and the
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 Art of Physics: How ideas from science can transform your life
Author: Zahaan Bharmal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Exceptionally interesting' - Alain de Botton 'Fascinating ... You'll never again view your own world in quite the same way. A...
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,...
The Solid Earth: An Introduction to Global Geophysics
The Solid Earth is a general introduction to the study of the physics of the solid Earth, including the workings of both the Earth's surface and its deep interior. The...
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,...
Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our
Few figures loom as large as Albert Einstein in our contemporary culture. It is truly remarkable that a man from such humble beginnings, an unemployed dreamer without a future or...
Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we...
What Is Inside a Black Hole?
'If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out' What is inside a black hole? Is time travel possible? Throughout his extraordinary career,...
Atomic Awakening
The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death. With Hiroshima and the Cold War still ringing in our ears, our perception of all things nuclear...
In Balloon And Bathyscaphe
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Author: Auguste PiccardBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1956Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles the extraordinary...
Fundamentals of Thermal-fluid Sciences
A comprehensive introduction to thermal sciences for engineering students in their junior and senior years. With a wealth of engineering applications, it is also a useful reference for practising engineers....
Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained
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Author: David FilkinBinding: HardbackPublished: BBC, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling work of popular science, Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained, presents an accessible overview of the...
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from
Randall Munroe is . . . 'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates 'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The world's...
Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission,...
Carbides In Nuclear Energy; Volume 2: Preparation And Fabrication; Irradiation Behaviour
$120.00 AUD
Author: L. E. Russell, B. T. Bradbury, J. D. L. Harrison, H. J. Hedger, P. G. MardonBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Anniversary Edition
A gorgeous anniversary edition of the international phenomenon- 'one of the best books of the 21st century' (Guardian) These seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the...
A Dictionary of Science
This bestselling dictionary contains more than 9,500 entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology (including human biology), earth sciences, computer science, and astronomy. This fully revised edition includes hundreds...
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style. What is going on with our atmosphere? The headlines...
Thinking Small and Large: How Microbes Made and Can Save Our World
The environmental crisis will not be solved by battery technology alone. Thinking Small and Large reveals the ingenuity of microbes at key stages in life's 4 billion year history and...
Aircraft Structures
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...
Black Holes And Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
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Author: Kip S. ThorneBinding: HardbackPublished: PICADOR, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis seminal work by a Nobel laureate physicist presents a captivating journey into the most extreme phenomena...
Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics
How key concepts in modern physics came from the work of a New Zealander whom Einstein labelled 'a second Newton'. By the mid-nineteenth century, physicists believed they had discovered the...
Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965
The first full history for forty years of the development of nuclear power and the extraordinary minds behind it Henry Becquerel's accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint...
The World Treasury Of Physics, Astronomy, And Mathematics
$15.00 AUD
Author: Timothy FerrisBinding: PaperbackPublished: Little, Brown and Company., 1991Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA monumental...
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - 100th Anniversary
After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popular audience. His intention was "to give...
Top Ten Ideas of Physics: Foundations for Understanding the Universe
The ten biggest ideas in theoretical physics that have withstood the test of time Could any discovery be more unexpected and shocking than the realisation that the reality we were...
The Nuclear Energy Controversy
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Author: Stephen GoodeBinding: HardbackPublished: Franklin Watts, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThe non-fiction work The Nuclear Energy Controversy presents a comprehensive examination of the complex arguments...
Boom!: The Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, and Earthly Mayhem
Space is quiet. Billion trillions of stars slowly burning out their lives. Bodies of rock, moons, planets, floating in the dark. Most of the time. Sometimes violence is unleashed on...
Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death
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A Discover magazine Top Science Book Thomas Edison stunned America in 1879 by unveiling a world-changing invention--the light bulb--and then launching the electrification of America's cities. A decade later, despite...
American Scientific Library (23 Vols.)
$200.00 AUD
Author: VariousBinding: HardbackPublished: American Scientific LibraryCondition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThe American Scientific Library is a landmark series that distills the wonders...
Fluid Mechanics
$15.00 AUD
Author: Victor L. StreeterBinding: PaperbackPublished: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStreeter Fluid Mechanics presents a comprehensive introduction to the...
Mechanics Of Fluids: 2Nd Edition
$30.00 AUD
Author: MasseyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMechanics Of Fluids: 2Nd Edition presents a comprehensive treatment of fluid...
The Story Of Light
$35.00 AUD
Author: Lillian J. BragdonBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan , 1961Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThe compelling work The Story Of Light chronicles the multifaceted...
The Individual And The Universe
$20.00 AUD
Author: A. C. B. LovellBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1959Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Individual And The Universe presents a profound scientific and...
What Is Life?: The Physical Aspect Of The Living Cell
$60.00 AUD
Author: Erwin SchrödingerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 2000Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsErwin Schrödinger's seminal work, What Is Life?, presents a profound inquiry into the fundamental nature of living...
Mechanics Of Fluids
$25.00 AUD
Author: W. J. Duncan A. S. Thom A. D. YoungBinding: PaperbackPublished: Edward Arnold, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased spine. Clean...
Strength Of Materials: Part II Advanced
$25.00 AUD
Author: S TimoshenkoBinding: PaperbackPublished: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Clean text. This authoritative engineering text, Strength Of Materials:...
P. M. S. Blackett: A Biographical Memoir
$50.00 AUD
Author: Bernard LovellBinding: HardbackPublished: The Royal Society, London, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsBernard Lovell's P. M. S. Blackett: A Biographical Memoir chronicles the extraordinary life and scientific...