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Photoelasticity. Volume II
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Author: Max Mark Frocht, Ph. D.Binding: HardbackPublished: JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., 1948Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis volume on photoelasticity provides a detailed examination of experimental...
An Introduction To Applied Anisotropic Elasticity
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Author: R. F. S. HearmonBinding: HardbackPublished: OXFORD at the CLARENDON PRESS, 1961Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book serves as an introductory guide to the principles and...
Rama II
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Author: Arthur C. Clarke And Gentry LeeBinding: HardbackPublished: Bantam, 1989Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsRama II continues the saga that began with Rendezvous with Rama, delving deeper...
Nemesis
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Author: AsimovBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, 1989Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book delves into a future where humanity faces a mysterious and potentially catastrophic threat from a distant star....
Electrical And Radio Notes For Wireless Operators
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Author: Anon.Binding: HardbackPublished: AIR MINISTRY, 1939Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis handbook provides information and guidance for all concerned, issued by Command of the Air...
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...
Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very BIG Ideas
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A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes
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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...
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Science, like most fields, is set up for men to succeed, and is rife with racism, sexism, and shortsightedness as a result. But as Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein makes brilliantly clear,...
Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and the Next Scientific Revolution
'A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS' - Jean Bricmont The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual...
White Holes: Inside the Horizon
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo...
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 God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
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...
The Second Law
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Author: P. W. AtkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: Scientific American Books - W. H. Freeman & Co., 1984Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the principles of thermodynamics and...
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles
DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAINHis face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a...
Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 3.1: Sources on Physics
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,...
Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters
Having penned hundreds of letters to his family over four decades, Freeman Dyson has framed them with the reflections made by a man now in his nineties. While maintaining that...
The End of Time
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About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
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The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?
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An Introduction to the Infinitesimal Calculus: With Applications to Mechanics and Physics
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Author: G. W. CauntBinding: HardbackPublished: The Clarendon Press, 1931, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book serves as an introduction to infinitesimal calculus, emphasizing its applications in...
The Address Book: Our Place in the Scheme of Things
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The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and
The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one? Our books, our movies-our imaginations-are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines,...
Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and [...]
'A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS' - Jean BricmontThe received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes...
Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were...
Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were...
Other Worlds
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Author: P. C. W. DaviesBinding: HardbackPublished: London: Dent, 1980Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn 'Other Worlds', P. C. W. Davies explores the concept of parallel universes and...
Color for the Sciences
A comprehensive introduction to colorimetry from a conceptual perspective.Color for the Sciences is the first book on colorimetry to offer an account that emphasizes conceptual and formal issues rather than...
Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
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...
Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
How do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve other seemingly impossible puzzles The question of how falling cats...
Knowing: The Nature of Physical Law
Author: Michael MunowitzFormat: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 726g, 432 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2006We ask question after question of an indifferent universe that would just as soon...
Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel
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Author: Banesh HoffmannBinding: HardbackPublished: Hart-Davis, Macgibbon, 1972Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book offers an insightful portrayal of Albert Einstein, highlighting his journey from being a...
The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one? Our books,...
Tracking Apollo to the Moon
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The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
Author: Marcelo Gleiser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An award-winning astronomer and physicist's spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life...
The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity
Author: Claudia de Rham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity's true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life. Claudia de Rham...
Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe
Author: Kimberly Arcand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 In MAGNITUDE, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time,...
Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form
Author: Esther Leslie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Liquid crystal is a curious phase of matter. It has the ability at once to flow, like water, and to refract,...
Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Journey into the vast depths of the observable universe by visualising the most spectacular images in astronomy in stereoscopic 3D....
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
Author: Jimena Canales Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities - demons - to test the laws of nature...
Stochastic Thermodynamics: An Introduction
Author: Luca Peliti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The first comprehensive graduate-level introduction to stochastic thermodynamicsStochastic thermodynamics is a well-defined subfield of statistical physics that aims to interpret thermodynamic...
The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality
Author: P. J. E. Peebles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 A century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that keep changing, from a mechanical...
The Young Traveller in Space
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The Crab Nebula
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A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford
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Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
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Wrinkles in Time: Imprint of Creation
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