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Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
by Chris Dubbs
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U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff 2013 Professional Reading List Selection  Nearly forty years passed between the Apollo moon landings, the grandest accomplishment of a government-run space program, and the Ansari X PRIZE-winning flights of SpaceShipOne, the... (read more)

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The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet (Science.Culture)
The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet (Science.Culture)
by Michael Ruse
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In 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth, in some sense, is life. He mulled this revolutionary idea over for several years, first with his close friend the novelist William... (read more)

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The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire
The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire
by Sandra Millers Younger
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The Fire Outside My Window reveals the story of the Cedar Fire, the largest fire in California’s recorded history, which ravaged the San Diego area in late 2003, burning nearly 280,000 acres, destroying more than 2,200 homes and hundreds of other... (read more)

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Time Loops and Space Twists: How God Created the Universe
Time Loops and Space Twists: How God Created the Universe
by Fred Alan Wolf
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In his most important book since Taking the Quantum Leap, Fred Alan Wolf, PhD., will explain how our understanding of time, space and matter have changed in just the last few years, and how with these new ideas we have a glimpse into the "mind of God... (read more)

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Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space
Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space
by Lisa Randall
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On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For forty years, physicists searched for this capstone to the... (read more)

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The New York Times Book of Physics and Astronomy: More Than 100 Years of Covering the Expanding Universe
The New York Times Book of Physics and Astronomy: More Than 100 Years of Covering the Expanding Universe
by Cornelia Dean
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From the discovery of distant galaxies and black holes to the tiny interstices of the atom, here is the very best on physics and astronomy from the New York Times! The newspaper of record has always prided itself on its award-winning science coverage... (read more)

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The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (New in Paperback)
The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (New in Paperback)
by Albert Einstein
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This is the definitive edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages. The Ultimate Quotable Einstein features roughly 1,600 quotes in all.... (read more)

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Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions: Second Edition
Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions: Second Edition
by Chris Quigg
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"Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions is an indispensable reference for both advanced graduate students and experts in collider physics phenomenology. Quigg's broad experience is seen in the clear and thorough exposition... (read more)

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Advanced Mechanics: From Euler's Determinism to Arnold's Chaos
Advanced Mechanics: From Euler's Determinism to Arnold's Chaos
by S. G. Rajeev
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Classical Mechanics is the oldest and best understood part of physics. This does not mean that it is cast in marble yet, a museum piece to be admired from a distance. Instead, mechanics continues to be an active area of research by physicists and... (read more)

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Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
by A. Douglas Stone
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"Common lore holds that Einstein's essential contribution to physics is relativity. But in this scholarly and accessible book, A. Douglas Stone argues convincingly that Einstein had a profound impact on the development of quantum theory. With lively... (read more)

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Advanced Mechanics: From Euler's Determinism to Arnold's Chaos
Advanced Mechanics: From Euler's Determinism to Arnold's Chaos
by S. G. Rajeev
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Classical Mechanics is the oldest and best understood part of physics. This does not mean that it is cast in marble yet, a museum piece to be admired from a distance. Instead, mechanics continues to be an active area of research by physicists and... (read more)

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Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family
by Shelley Emling
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Published to widespread acclaim, in Marie Curie and Her Daughters, science writer Shelley Emling shows that far from a shy introvert toiling away in her laboratory, the famed scientist and two-time Nobel prize winner was nothing short of an iconoclast... (read more)

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My Brief History
My Brief History
by Stephen Hawking
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Stephen Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years. He is the author of several books, including the worldwide publishing phenomenon A Brief History of Time, A Briefer History of Time (written with... (read more)

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Analytical Mechanics: An Introduction
Analytical Mechanics: An Introduction
by Antonio Fasano
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Analytical Mechanics is the investigation of motion with the rigorous tools of mathematics, with remarkable applications to many branches of physics (Astronomy, Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, etc.). Rooted in the works of Lagrange, Euler, and... (read more)

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Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
by Jim Baggott
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In this stunning new volume, Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental evidence for many of the ideas of modern theoretical physics: super-symmetric particles,super strings, the multiverse, the holographic principle,or the... (read more)

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Paleoclimate (Princeton Primers in Climate)
Paleoclimate (Princeton Primers in Climate)
by Michael L Bender
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"Michael Bender, a giant in the field, fits the excitement, rigor, and deep insights of paleoclimatology into a succinct text suitable for a semester-long course introducing this indispensable branch of environmental science."--Richard B. Alley... (read more)

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The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
by Sean Carroll
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“A modern voyage of discovery.” —Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of The Lightness of Being The Higgs boson is one of our eras most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. The most recent book... (read more)

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Cracking the AP Physics B Exam (Princeton Review: Cracking the AP Physics B Exam)
Cracking the AP Physics B Exam (Princeton Review: Cracking the AP Physics B Exam)
by Steven A. Leduc
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Magnificent Principia: Exploring Isaac Newton's Masterpiece
Magnificent Principia: Exploring Isaac Newton's Masterpiece
by Colin Pask
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Colin Pask (Canberra, Australia) is the author of Math for the Frightened: Facing Scary Symbols and Everything Else That Freaks You Out about Mathematics. He is an emeritus professor of mathematics and a visiting fellow and professor in the School of... (read more)

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Mechanics of Materials
Mechanics of Materials
by Clarence W. De Silva
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A systematic presentation of theory, procedures, illustrative examples, and applications, Mechanics of Materials provides the basis for understanding structural mechanics in engineering systems such as buildings, bridges, vehicles, and machines. The... (read more)

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