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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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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: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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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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The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered Over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything (Harvest Book) by K C Cole Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-266) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.98 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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Einstein: The Passions of a Scientist by Barry Parker Publisher Comments In this unique contribution to the Einstein literature, physicist and acclaimed science writer Parker draws on the great scientist's letters and personal papers to explore the intellectual and emotional passions that motivated both his work and his life.... (read more) List Price $28.98 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Einstein (Life & Times) by Peter D Smith Publisher Comments Einstein??'s science and emotional life come together in this vivid portrait of a rebellious and contradictory figure, a pacifist whose legendary equation E=mc2 squared opened scientists??? eyes to the terrible power within every atom.... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $4.97 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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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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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil Degrasse Tyson Publisher Comments 'Loyal readers of the monthly \"Universe\" essays inNatural Historymagazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson\'s talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry That Created the Nuclear Age by Amir D Aczel Publisher Comments Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Its nucleus is so heavy that it is highly unstable and radioactive. If broken apart, it unleashes the tremendous power within the atomthe... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall Publisher Comments The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familier three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and unattainable . . . for now. Warped Passages is a brilliantly... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Isaac Newton by Richard S Westfall About the Author Richard S. Westfall was Professor of History and Philosophy, Indiana University. He died in 1996.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Physics for Dummies (For Dummies) by Steven Holzner Publisher Comments Does just thinking about the laws of motion make your head spin? Does studying electricity short your circuits? Do the complexities of thermodynamics cool your enthusiasm? Thanks to this book, you don’t have to be Einstein to understand physics. As... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 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 $30.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light (P.S.) by Leonard Shlain Publisher Comments Art interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words––with physicists using the language of mathematics and... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Multiple Facets of Quantization & Supers by Mikhail Olshanetsky Publisher Comments This book is dedicated to the memory of Michael Marinov, the theorist who, together with Felix Berezin, introduced the classical description of spin by anticommuting Grassmann variables. It contains original papers and reviews by physicists and... (read more) Your price: $50.25 Sale - Hardcover
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From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll Publisher Comments "An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson Publisher Comments A fascinating slice of true-crime history that unfolds in 1695, when law enforcement was unheard of and modern money was little more than a concept When renowned scientist Isaac Newton took up the post of Warden of His Majestys Mint in London, another... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene Publisher Comments Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away layers of mystery to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter—from the smallest quarks to the most... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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