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The Weather Wizard's Cloud Book: A Unique Way to Predict the Weather Accurately and Easily by Reading the Clouds Publisher Comments To predict what the weather ahead will be, take these three easy steps: figure out which way the wind is blowing; look at the clouds; match what you see there with one of the full-color cloud photographs in The Weather Wizard's Cloud Book.... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot Staff Pick The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot is one of my favorite books. Fascinating. Amazing! Physics, swamis, waves, and particles. Extremely readable.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean Publisher Comments On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester Staff Pick Krakatoa is the eloquent narrative of the cataclysmic destruction in 1883 of the volcanic island of the same name. Killing nearly 40,000 people (mostly from the resultant tsunamis), this violent eruption was "the most violent explosion ever recorded and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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50 Physics Ideas You Really Need To Know (09 Edition) by Joanne Baker Publisher Comments As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Keplers law of planetary motion and Newtons law of gravitation, Joanne Baker unravels the sometimes baffling complexities of modern scientific... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Hardcover
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Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Adventures with a Microscope by Richard Headstrom Publisher Comments With a simple microscope and this book you can embark on 59 exciting adventures in the natural world — make discoveries about the structures of numerous microscopic animals; find out what everyday objects and foods really look like at the cellular... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Longing for the Harmonies: Themes & Variations from Modern Physics by Frank Wilczek Publisher Comments Devoted to sharing their own delight and awe before the fundamental mysteries of the cosmos, Frank Wilczek (winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics) and science writer Betsy Devine also have a serious purpose: to reveal to the lay reader how a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking Publisher Comments Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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What Is Relativity? by L. D. Landau Publisher Comments A pair of eminent Russian theoretical physicists offer a captivating view of the paradoxes inherent to the special theory of relativity. Written in a straightforward fashion, the text uses familiar objects (e.g., trains, rulers, and clocks) to illuminate... (read more) Your price: $6.95 New - Trade Paper
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Emerging cosmology by Bernard Lovell Publisher Comments This book examines the treatment of space and narrative in a selection of classic films including My Darling Clementine, It's a Wonderful Life, and Vertigo. Deborah Thomas employs a variety of arguments in exploring the reading of space and its meaning... (read more) List Price $77.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Quantum World (Princeton Science Library) by John Polkinghorne Review The author's life as well as his oeuvre, especially this lovely little book, bear testimony to the fact that . . . science and nature can coexist in harmonious complementarity. -- Abraham Pais, Nature... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit E: Electric and Magnetic Fields Are Unified by Thomas A Moore Publisher Comments SIX IDEAS THAT SHAPED PHYSICS is the 21st century's alternative to traditional, encyclopedic textbooks. Thomas Moore designed SIX IDEAS to teach students: --to apply basic physical principles to realistic situations --to solve realistic problems --to... (read more) List Price $42.85 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sidelights on Relativity by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments Two influential essays: "Ether and Relativity" (1920) discusses properties demanded of the ether of space by the theory of relativity; "Geometry and Experience" (1921) describes the limits within which the Euclidean or other practical geometric systems... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Trade Paper
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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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Seven Wonders of the Cosmos by Jayant Vis Narlikar Publisher Comments Our cosmic tour begins here. As we leave the secure confines of the Earth and journey into space, we find a plethora of strange and unexpected phenomena. Little can we anticipate from the quiet, star-studded sky the violent events in the cosmos. Stars... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $2.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Toast Lands Jelly-Side Down: Zen and the Art of Physics Demonstrations by Robert Ehrlich Publisher Comments "A charming and delightful book full of useful advice. Anyone who teaches undergraduate physics can find something of value in it for almost any course."--Mark P. Silverman, Trinity... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe by Charles Seife Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-276) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.48 Used - Hardcover
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Newton and Gravity: The Big Idea (Big Idea) by Paul Strathern Publisher Comments An often witty and always informative look at the father of physics--his work, his eccentricities, and his "Big Idea" about what keeps us all from spinning into space.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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