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The Cartoon Guide to Physics
by Larry Gonick
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How to Teach Physics to Your Dog
by Chad Orzel
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Particle Physics: A Beginner's Guide
by Brian R Martin
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For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
by Walter Lewin
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The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
by Shing Tung Yau
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Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries)
by Lawrence M Krauss
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines
by Richard A. Muller
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Einstein: The Life and Times
by Ronald W. Clark
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
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My Einstein: Essays by the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy
by John Brockman
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Annus Mirabilis: 1905, Albert Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity
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The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
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Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries)
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A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down
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Lawrence Krauss's new book, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, summarizes the continuing developments in the field of cosmology. In addition to championing these new insights in the study of modern physics, Krauss also... (read more)

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The Day We Found the Universe
by Marcia Bartusiak
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On January 1, 1925, thirty-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced the observation that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. This discovery... (read more)

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Supersymmetry
by Pierre Binetruy
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Achievement of Galileo
by Galileo Galilei
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