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Before the Big Bang by Brian Clegg Publisher Comments According to a recent survey, the most popular question about science from the general public was: what came before the Big Bang? We all know on some level what the Big Bang is, but we dont know how it became the accepted theory, or how we might know... (read more) List Price $14.99 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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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 Goldilocks Engima: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies Publisher Comments Cosmic Jackpot is Paul Daviess eagerly awaited return to cosmology, the successor to his critically acclaimed bestseller The Mind of God. Here he tackles all the "big questions," including the biggest of them all: Why does the universe seem so well... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher with Book by Richard P Feynman Publisher Comments Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher is a publishing first. This set couples a book containing the six easiest chapters from Richard Feynmans landmark work, Lectures on Physics—specifically designed for the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Curve of Binding Energy by John Mcphee Publisher Comments Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own. McPhee tours American nuclear... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Dictionary of Physics (Oxford Dictionary of Physics) by John Daintith Publisher Comments This classic desktop reference has been thoroughly revised, bringing readers more than 3,800 entries--200 new to this edition--that define the terms of this fast-changing field with clarity and without jargon. The author provides coverage of all areas of... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $14.99 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek Publisher Comments Our understanding of natures deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past twenty-five years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Weather: A Visual Guide (Visual Guide) by Bruce Buckley Publisher Comments An introductory guide to understanding weather and its effect on our lives. It is human nature to try to understand, predict and control the weather that affects crops, wildlife and even one's mood. The world's favorite topic of conversation is also the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.99 Sale - Trade Paper
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Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung by Arthur I. Miller Publisher Comments Evaluates the unusual camaraderie between the ground-breaking physicist and the famous psychoanalyst, tracing their disparate and complementary approaches to the effort to quantify the unconscious, their shared obsession with the primal number 137, and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Sloshing by Odd Faltinsen Publisher Comments This book presents sloshing with marine and land-based applications, with a focus on ship tanks. It also includes the nonlinear multimodal method developed by the authors and an introduction to computational fluid dynamics. Emphasis is also placed on... (read more) List Price $149.50 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Schaum's Easy Outlines Applied Physics: Based on Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Applied Physics (Third Edition) (Schaum's Easy Outlines) by Arthur Beiser Publisher Comments Boiled-down essentials of the top-selling Schaum's Outline series, for the student with limited time What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.98 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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Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time by Heinz R Pagels Publisher Comments Popular science at its best, this acclaimed classic work describes in stunning detail how cutting-edge discoveries in quantum physics and cosmology are helping to explain the origin and evolution of the universe, of space and time. Perfect Symmetry is an... (read more) List Price $16.00 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 wasnt 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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You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe by Christopher Potter Publisher Comments You Are Here is a dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it, as seen through the lens of today's most cutting-edge scientific thinking. Christopher Potter brilliantly parses the meaning of what we call the universe. He tells the... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $15.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Introduction to Electromagnetic Engineering by Roger Harrington Publisher Comments Based on circuit theory rather than on classical force-relationship approach, this text uses the theory of electric circuits to provide a system of experiments and introduces a series of field concepts as a logical extension of circuit theory... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Applications of Group Theory in Quantum Mechanics by M I Petrashen Publisher Comments Geared toward theoretical physicists, this advanced text explores the value of modern group-theoretical methods in quantum theory. It explains the theory of groups and their matrix representations, developing them to the level required for applications... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Kaleidoscope Sky by Tim Herd Publisher Comments A magical, illustrated tour of nature's wondrous, almost supernatural skyscapes, Kaleidoscope Sky reveals the beauty—and the science—behind Earth's rarest, most unusual celestial phenomena. For millennia, the sky has provided a spectacular... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Anil Ananthaswamy Publisher Comments In this deeply original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the telescopes and detectors that promise to answer the biggest questions in modern cosmology. Why is the universe expanding at an ever faster rate? What is the nature... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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