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Saving Soldiers or Civilians?: Casualty-Aversion versus Civilian
Concerns for the lives of soldiers and innocent civilians have come to underpin Western, and particularly American, warfare. Yet this new mode of conflict faces a dilemma: these two norms...
The Quantum Internet: The Second Quantum Revolution
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...
Taking the Quantum Leap
$12.00 AUD
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Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island...
Kafka's Trial: The Case Against Josef K.
$60.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Glue marks on front end and end pages - pages...
On the Origin of Time
A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in...
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 Hermit In Van Diemen's Land
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodLong before Australia had a literary tradition to call its own, Henry Savery — convict, bankrupt, and inveterate observer — was quietly laying its...
Quantum Supremacy: How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of
An exhilarating guide to the astonishing future of quantum computing, from The New York Times bestselling physicist The runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with...
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...
Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
Everything you need to know to start doing physics - and nothing more This is the ultimate master class in modern physics. World-class physicist and father of string theory Leonard...
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times) What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli...
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the
A renegade quantum physicist argues for a radical new interpretation of the structure of reality Human beings, says Lee Smolin, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality...
Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and [...]
$15.00 AUD
'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...
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields
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...
Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality?
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...
Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives
'A whirlwind tour of technological possibility' New Scientist 'A whirlwind tour of technological possibility' New Scientist Welcome to the future, where you'll be able to take an elevator hundreds of...
The Penguin Dictionary of Physics
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....
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
The second volume in Leonard Susskind's hugely popular, one-of-a-kind introductory series on physics In The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical mechanics, offering...
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...
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 Quantum World
$75.00 AUD
Author: J.C. PolkinghorneBinding: HardbackPublished: Longman & Co, UK, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Black cloth in good condition. Small tear on DJ. Clean text. The book...
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
$15.00 AUD
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...
In Search of the Double Helix
$10.00 AUD
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Quantum Yoga: The Holistic Approach to Creating Your Ideal Practice
Lara Baumann developed Quantum Yoga to help practitioners tap the ancient approach to achieving union with the divine through the harmony of body and mind. Drawing on both Western and...
In Search of the Big Bang
$10.00 AUD
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First Things Last (SIGNED)
$250.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ: faded, in mylar. From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes First Things Last, a poetry...
Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
$17.50 AUD
Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the...
Other Worlds: Space, Superspace And The Quantum Universe
$25.00 AUD
Author: Paul DaviesBinding: HardbackPublished: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsPaul Davies's "Other Worlds: Space, Superspace And The Quantum Universe" is...
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,...