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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Physics $16.95 New Hardcover add to wish list The Truth about Santa: Wormholes, Robots, and What Really Happens on Christmas Eve Gregory Mone $56.95 New Hardcover add to wish list Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic (Security and the Environment) Barry Scott Zellen $18.95 New Hardcover add to wish list Quantum Leaps Jeremy Bernstein $113.95 New Hardcover add to wish list Statistical Field Theory: An Introduction to Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Physics (Oxford Graduate Texts) Giuseppe Mussardo $16.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines Richard A. Muller $16.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking Charles Seife Browse more New Arrivals in Physics General Browse more titles in Physics-General Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perelman Publisher Comments Written in the early days of the Soviet Union, Physics for Entertainment is filled with easy-to-understand explanations of the essential laws of the universe, which Perelman sets up with questions such as: Can an invisible man see? Why does a... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Recently Arrived Used Browse recently arrived used titles in Physics $7.00 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe Leon M. Lederman and Christopher T. Hill $5.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Relativity: The Special and the General Theory Albert Einstein $8.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality Brian Greene $6.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory Brian Greene $100.00 Used Hardcover add to wish list Modern Physics Raymond A. Serway $12.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list New Theories of Everything John D Barrow Browse recently arrived used titles in Physics Cosmology Browse more titles in Physics-Cosmology A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments From One of the Most Brilliant Minds of Our Time Comes a Book that Clarifies His Most Important Ideas Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, remains one of the landmark volumes in scientific writing of our time. But for years... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list Optics Browse more titles in Physics-Optics Introduction to Lens Design by Joseph M. Geary Publisher Comments This book is based on an introductory lens design course taught in the Optical Science & Engineering doctoral program at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and sponsored by the Center for Applied Optics. The book?s thirty-eight chapters follow... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Hardcover add to wish list Biographies and Classics Browse more titles in Physics-Biographies and Classics Radio Tesla: The Secret of Tesla's Radio and Wireless Power by George Trinkaus Publisher Comments In clear English, with 66 illustrations and a minimum of math, this booklet details the peculiar radio technology of Nikola Tesla. Early elemental radio devices like Tesla's are fascinating and worthy of study because they remind us that powerful radio... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $8.75 Sale - Pamphlet add to wish list The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock Publisher Comments Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called “green” products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In Surviving Gaia’s Revenge, the eminent scientist James... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover add to wish list The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston Publisher Comments Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained — the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list Very Short Introductions #90: The Earth: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Redfern Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-136) and index.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Popular Browse more titles in Physics-Popular Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind by F David Peat Publisher Comments With fascinating historical anecdotes and incisive scientific analysis, this important work combines ancient thought with modern theory to reveal a new way of viewing our universe that can expand our awareness, our lives, and may well point the way to a... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list Sale Books Browse more titles in Physics-Sale Books Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe by Mark Voit Publisher Comments This poster-sized paperback on the discoveries made by the Hubble Space Telescope since its launch in 1990 is prepared to accompany a major Smithsonian Institution exhibition that will travel across the United States for several years. 110 illustrations,... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.97 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Used Books Browse more titles in Physics-Used Books The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav Publisher Comments With lucidity and elegance, the award-winning author of "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" shows how the pursuit of external power has produced our survival-of-the-fittest understanding of evolution; generated conflict between lovers, communities, and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list

Bestsellers Sunday, November 8, 2009 Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perelman A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Photoshop Astronomy 2ND Edition by Scott Ireland Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit Mandelbrot Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes 2ND Edition by Harold Richa Suiter Contributors | September 28, 2009 A Shuddering before the Beautiful 0 comments By Fulvio Melia Describing fundamental discoveries in physics, Nobel laureates rarely write with such evident enthusiasm that even the casual reader immediately... Continue » $25.00 New Hardcover add to wish list Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics Fulvio Melia Rare Books | September 23, 2009 Physics, Mathematics, and Optics... Oh, My! 3 comments By Kirsten Berg Don't judge this book by its cover. Between those old calf boards are pages with lovely wide margins, head-pieces, tail-pieces, and folding plates.... Continue »

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