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Scientists have just begun to understand how complexity and organization can emerge from featurelessness and chaos. Is the way the universe is now in some sense predetermined? Is there, in...

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...

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...

Author: Thomas PrestonBinding: HardbackPublished: MACMILLAN & CO, 1924Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThe scientific treatise The Theory Of Light...

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...

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...

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...

For centuries, electricity was viewed as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that...

The most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely science book you'll ever read, from the world-renowned, multi-award-winning, superstar physicist Lisa Randall The most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely science book you'll ever read, from the...

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...

Author: Jean-Jacques TrillatBinding: HardbackPublished: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD, 1959Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerExploring The Structure Of Matter presents a foundational examination of...

Author: Ginestra AmaldiBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis comprehensive scientific work, The Nature Of Matter: Physical Theory From Thales To Fermi...

Author: Courtland D. Perkins And Robert E. HageBinding: HardbackPublished: JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. and CHAPMAN & HALL, LIMITED, 1958Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and...

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...

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...

In The Fire within the Eye, scientist and author David Park helps us reconceive the everyday phenomenon of light in profound ways, from spiritual meanings embedded in our culture to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

"Quite possibly the best popular science book I've ever read" ( Popular Science ) shows how the tools that enabled us to overcome the uncertainty of the weather will enable...

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...

Author: G. Harburn C. A. Taylor T. R. WelberryBinding: HardbackPublished: G. Bell & Sons, 1975Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThe seminal...

Author: B.W. AndersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Newnes-Butterworths, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed DJ, minor tears to DJ.This authoritative work, Gem Testing: Eighth Edition,...

Author: Eve CurieBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd., 1947Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: FEP missingMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, Madame Curie, chronicles the extraordinary life and...

Author: C. van AmerongenBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis seminal work presents a captivating journey into the mechanics of...

Author: John GribbinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling work of popular science chronicles humanity's quest to...

Author: Michael DisneyBinding: HardbackPublished: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe academic work The Hidden Universe by Michael Disney presents a compelling journey into the...

Author: F. G. BrownBinding: HardbackPublished: CHAPMAN & HALL LTD., 1941Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Worn boards with minor marks and specks. Previous owner's notes...

Author: G. A. B. KingBinding: HardbackPublished: The Maritime Press, 1956Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No loose pages. Staining on side of book block.Tanker Practice...

Author: Prof. Ludwig Buchner, M. D.Binding: HardbackPublished: ASHER AND CO., London; THEODOR THOMAS, Leipzig, 1884Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Reading...

Awaken Your Immortal Intelligent Heart by Carmel Glenane B.A. Dip. Ed. In Part I: DISCOVER THE SECRET POWER OF YOUR HEART'S INTELLIGENCE: New scientific evidence reveals that your heart has...

Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today's most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of "machines that think." Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, "The development of full...

The bestselling 30-Second series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the...

The "artfully written...splendid history of classical and quantum physics" ( Science ) that "rightfully highlights the limitations of current physics" ( Wall Street Journal ) and argues for a revolutionary...

An astronomer "who writes like a poet" ( Wall Street Journal ) gives a sweeping, "beautifully written" ( Nature ) inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history...

A "fascinating [and] provocative" argument by a particle physicist--marshalling a "heady mix of history, philosophy and cutting-edge theory" ( Wall Street Journal )--for monism, the ancient idea about the universe...

In Waves in an Impossible Sea , physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion....

Physicist and rising BBC star, Dr Helen Czerski shows that science isn't something complicated for someone else somewhere else but all around us, happening right now in pigeons, teacups and...

The 25th Anniversary Edition of Brian Greene's iconic bestseller, combining great scientific insight and elegant writing to unravel the greatest mysteries of one of our most complex scientific concepts- string...

Author: C.P. SnowBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor bumps to DJ, slight foxing to top-edge...

No other planet has so fired the human imagination as Mars. The possibility of life on the planet was an obsession in the 19th century. It is not surprising to...

At its height, Einstein's marriage to Mileva was an extraordinary one - a colleague and often fierce adversary, Mileva was brilliantly matched with the scientific genius. Dennis Overbye seeks to...