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Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight) by Chris Dubbs Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet (Science.Culture) by Michael Ruse Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire by Sandra Millers Younger Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Time Loops and Space Twists: How God Created the Universe by Fred Alan Wolf Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space by Lisa Randall Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $9.99 New - Trade Paper
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The New York Times Book of Physics and Astronomy: More Than 100 Years of Covering the Expanding Universe by Cornelia Dean Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (New in Paperback) by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions: Second Edition by Chris Quigg Publisher Comments "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) Your price: $75.00 New - Hardcover
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Advanced Mechanics: From Euler's Determinism to Arnold's Chaos by S. G. Rajeev Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $104.25 New - Hardcover
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Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian by A. Douglas Stone Publisher Comments "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) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Advanced Mechanics: From Euler's Determinism to Arnold's Chaos by S. G. Rajeev Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $53.50 New - Trade Paper
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Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family by Shelley Emling Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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My Brief History by Stephen Hawking Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $22.00 New - Hardcover
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Analytical Mechanics: An Introduction by Antonio Fasano Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $81.50 New - Trade Paper
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Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth by Jim Baggott Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Paleoclimate (Princeton Primers in Climate) by Michael L Bender Publisher Comments "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) Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
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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 by Sean Carroll Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cracking the AP Physics B Exam (Princeton Review: Cracking the AP Physics B Exam) by Steven A. Leduc Publisher Comments US... (read more) Your price: $18.99 New - Trade Paper
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Magnificent Principia: Exploring Isaac Newton's Masterpiece by Colin Pask Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mechanics of Materials by Clarence W. De Silva Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $127.25 New - Hardcover
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