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McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, June 2006. Hardcover. The Physics of Everyday Phenomena, Fifth Edition introduces students to the basic concepts of physics using examples of common occurrences. Intended for use in a one-semester or two-quarter course in conceptual physics, this book is written in a narrative style, frequently using questions designed to.....
Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 2002. Hardcover.
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Penguin Books, December 1988. Trade Paperback. "Chaos" records the birth of a new science. This new science offers a way of seeing order and pattern where formerly only the random, the erratic, the unpredictable--in short, the chaotic--had been observed.
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Bold Type Books, May 2022. Trade Paperback. From a star astrophysicist and author of the national bestseller The Edge of Space Time, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos - and a call for a more just, inclusive practice of science. "A love letter to the.....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 1993. Hardcover.
Crown Publishing Group (NY), December 1988. Hardcover. Second printing. Musty smell. Free front endpaper torn out, doing some damage to the hinge and leaving the half-title as the first leaf. Title page has 'Mountain High School' (now that's West Orange High School) library sticker. Second printing. Musty smell. Free front.....
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Bantam, March 1988. Hardcover.
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Running Press, January 2005. Trade Paperback. This latest installment in our On the Shoulders of Giants series presents the provocative essay by Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) in its entirety. Famed for its unapologetic support of Copernicus's theory and subsequent proof that the earth did indeed revolve around the sun (and not.....
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Anchor, February 2006. Trade Paperback. The national bestselling author of The God Equation takes us on a thrilling journey to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and the possibility that parallel universes may lay alongside our own. "A wonderful tour, with an expert guide." --Brian Greene, New York.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, January 2018. Trade Paperback. Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski's lively, entertaining, and richly informed introduction to the world of physics. Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking ordinary objects and occurrences, like popcorn popping, coffee.....
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Running Press Adult, December 2003. Trade Paperback. World-renowned physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking presents a revolutionary look at the momentous discoveries that changed our perception of the world with this first-ever compilation of seven classic works on physics and astronomy. His choice of landmark writings by some of the.....
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MIT Press, February 2020. Trade Paperback. A concise, non-technical exploration of quantum entanglement--the enigma Albert Einstein called 'spooky action at a distance'--and how it contradicts our assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality. Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schrödinger's Cat, famously both.....
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Harper Paperbacks, August 2024. Trade Paperback. For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled.....
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Dutton, May 2024. Hardcover. The instant New York Times bestseller Quanta and Fields, the second book of Sean Carroll's already internationally acclaimed series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, is an adventure into the bare stuff of reality. Sean Carroll is creating a profoundly new approach to sharing physics with.....
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Vintage, January 2007. Trade Paperback. Nobel Prize-winner Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive--and comprehensible--account of the physics of the universe. A "guide to physics' big picture, and to the thoughts of one of the world's most original thinkers."--The New York Times.....
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Riverhead Books, January 2018. Trade Paperback. "The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." --The Times Magazine From the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and the forthcoming Helgoland, a closer look at.....
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Simon & Schuster, April 1996. Paperback. The traditional association between time and creation is at the heart of science, cosmology, and religion. When scientists began to explore the implications of Einstein's time for the universe as a whole, they discovered that time is elastic, and can be warped by rapid.....
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Oxford University Press, July 2002. Trade Paperback. Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that.....
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Chelsea Green Publishing, March 2020. Trade Paperback. 100,000 copies sold! A groundbreaking history of electricity from a scientist and journalist telling the story from an environmental point of view, outlining the effects that this fundamental societal building block has had on our health and our planet. Over the last 2.....
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Basic Books, March 2011. Trade Paperback. Learn how to think like a physicist from a Nobel laureate with these six classic and beloved lessons "If one book was all that could be passed on to the next generation of scientists it would undoubtedly have to be Six Easy Pieces."―John Gribbin.....
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Back Bay Books, July 2009. Trade Paperback. What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did, and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, February 2018. Trade Paperback. Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that "can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist" (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein.....
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Penguin Press, July 2023. Hardcover. From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science "[Giorgio Parisi is] an extraordinary scientist." --Carlo Rovelli With In a Flight of Starlings, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work.....
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Bantam, September 1998. Trade Paperback. In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about.....
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Penguin Classics, July 2006. Trade Paperback. An accesible version of Einstein's masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself According to Einstein himself, this book is intended "to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view.....
