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The Cartoon Guide to Physics by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments Anyone who thinks a negative charge is something that shows up on your credit card bill-or imagines that Ohm's Law dictates how long to meditate-or believes that Newtonian mechanics will fix your car-needs The Cartoon Guide to Physics. This handy... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel Publisher Comments When physics professor Chad Orzel went to the pound to adopt a dog, he never imagined Emmy. She wasn't just a friendly mutt who needed a home. Soon she was trying to use the strange ideas of quantum mechanics for the really important things in her life... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Particle Physics: A Beginner's Guide by Brian R Martin Synopsis Gaining a following since the launch of the infamous Large Hadron Collider, particle physics explores our most fundamental and mind-blowing questions: How did the Universe start? What are we made of? How small is the smallest thing? Without presuming any... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 Publisher Comments FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS as a beloved professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Walter Lewin honed his singular craft of making physics not only accessible but truly fun. Now Lewin takes readers on a marvelous journey in For the Love of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Shing Tung Yau Publisher Comments String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In The Shape of Inner Space... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries) by Lawrence M Krauss Publisher Comments Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller Publisher Comments We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times. As citizens who will elect future presidents of the most powerful and influential country in the world, we need to know'"truly understand, not just rely on television's talking... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark Publisher Comments Ronald W. Clark's acclaimed biography of Einstein, the Promethean figure of our age, goes behind the phenomenal intellect to reveal the human side of the legendary absent-minded professor who confidently claimed that space and time were not what they... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser Publisher Comments In the 1970s, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley, California, banded together to explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the "Fundamental Fysiks Group," they pursued an audacious, speculative approach to physics, studying quantum... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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My Einstein: Essays by the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy by John Brockman Publisher Comments Albert Einstein’s bold mark on our understanding of the world, which has persisted now for more than a century, shows no sign of fading. On the contrary, Einstein and his work promise to inspire, enlighten, and confound us for decades indeed, for... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Galileo by John L Heilbron Publisher Comments In 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a "hurried little masterpiece" in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope--the craters of the moon, the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Annus Mirabilis: 1905, Albert Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity by John Gribbin Publisher Comments The year the future was born. At the dawn of the twentieth century, young physicist Albert Einstein had quit university life, proved a failure as a teacher, and, in desperate need of means to support his wife and newborn child, had taken a job as a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Hardcover
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The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations by Eugene Linden Publisher Comments The Winds of Change places the horrifying carnage unleashed on New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama by Hurricane Katrina in context. Climate has been humanity's constant, if moody, companion. At times benefactor or tormentor, climate nurtured the first... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries) by Lawrence M Krauss Publisher Comments Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and best... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Robert B. Laughlin Publisher Comments In this age of superstring theories and Big Bang cosmology, we're used to thinking of the unknown as impossibly distant from our everyday lives. But in A Different Universe, Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin argues that the scientific frontier is right... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss and Richard Dawkins Staff Pick 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Supersymmetry by Pierre Binetruy Publisher Comments This book is an introduction to the theory of supersymmetry, which is a cornerstone to understanding the physics of elementary particles beyond the so-called "Standard Model". Supersymmetry is the first introductory book on this modern and increasingly... (read more) List Price $138.95 Your price: $39.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Condensed Matter Physics by Akira Isihara Publisher Comments Both an introductory research work and a graduate text on condensed matter physics, this volume is also accessible to plasma physicists and their students. It emphasizes applications to a variety of systems rather than theoretical derivations and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Achievement of Galileo by Galileo Galilei Publisher Comments Galileo has been termed by Einstein "the father of modern science." Why that is so is the main burden of The Achievement of Galileo. Included in this volume are not only selections from his own works, full of the thrill and pride of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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