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Instant Physics pulls together all the pivotal physics knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in...

A leading astronomer and gifted teacher takes readers on a wondrous tour of how science confronts the big questions-about the universe's origins, destiny, and fundamental nature-and how it contends with...

There are deep and fascinating links between heavy metal and quantum physics. No, really! While teaching at the University of Nottingham, physicist Philip Moriarty noticed something odd, a surprising number...

Author: R. Fortescue PickardBinding: HardbackPublisher: WILLIAMS & NORGATE LTD, 1945Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsTime Number And The Atom presents a profound inquiry into...

Author: Percy DunsheathBinding: PaperbackPublisher: THE M.I.T. PRESS, 1962Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, A seminal work in the history...

Author: R. B. HeywoodBinding: HardbackPublisher: PERGAMON PRESS, 1969Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsThis authoritative text, Photoelasticity For Designers, presents...

Author: Sir James JeansBinding: HardbackPublisher: Cambridge University Press, 1945Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe classic work The Universe Around Us by Sir James Jeans presents...

DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS. THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much...

Networks constitute the backbone of complex systems, from the human brain to computer communications, transport infrastructures to online social systems and metabolic reactions to financial markets. Characterising their structure improves...

Definitive treatise offers a concise exposition of classical statistical mechanics and a thorough elucidation of quantum statistical mechanics, plus applications of statistical mechanics to thermodynamic behavior. Referred to by every...

This text concerns continuum mechanics, electrodynamics and the mechanics of electrically polarized media, and gravity. Geared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it offers an accessible approach that formulates theories...

Author: George S. Nolas; David C. Johnson; David G. MandrusBinding: HardbackPublisher: Materials Research Society, 2001Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis academic volume presents a comprehensive overview of...

Author: Michael Mastro, Jeffrey Laroche, Jun Bae, Jin-Woo Kim, Myung-Soo KimBinding: HardbackPublisher: MRS MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY, 2009Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis academic text addresses the critical...

Author: L. Dal Negro, Mark Brongersma, Joseph B. Pendry, Lukas NovotnyBinding: HardbackPublisher: MRS Materials Research Society, 2009Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis academic volume, Materials For Nanophotonics...

Author: L. W. Hobbs, K. H. Westmacott, D. B. WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublisher: Materials Research Society, 1986Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis academic text presents a comprehensive guide to...

Isaac is a Department for Education project at the University of Cambridge that develops understanding and confidence through problem solving in the physical sciences, by combining accessible and concise print...

This bold new title places its subject centre stage, shining the spotlight directly onto the structure and properties of this tiniest amount of anything it is possible to identify. The...

It was Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. From 1961 to 1963, Feynman delivered a series of lectures...

Two bestselling authors first met in a televised Caltech debate on "the future of God," one an articulate advocate for spirituality, the other a prominent physicist. This remarkable book is...

Professor Sir Roger Penrose's groundbreaking and bestselling The Road to Reality (2005) provided a complete guide to the laws that govern our universe. In Cycles of Time, Penrose offers a...

Author: Stewart Howard And Associates.Binding: HardbackPublished: Stewart Howard And Associates., 1955Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight tear to back of...

In Cosmic Numbers , mathematics professor James Stein traces the discovery, evolution, and interrelationships of the great numbers that define our world. Some numbers, like the speed of light and...

The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history. Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

*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,...

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...

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...

'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,...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Measuring What You Don't Know in Terms of What You Do

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...