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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: $10.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene Staff Pick "Brian Greene presents the bizarre world of quantum mechanics and string theory using language accessible to all while taking the reader on an exciting journey through a truly unusual universe."... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek Publisher Comments Physicist understanding of the essential nature of reality changed radically over the past quarter century. Frank Wilczek has played a lead role in establishing the new paradigms. Transcending the clash and mismatch of older ideas about what matter is... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 According to string theory, we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the remaining six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In The Shape of Inner... (read more) Your price: $18.99 New - Trade Paper
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Eddington's Search for a Fundamental Theory: A Key to the Universe by C W Kilmister Publisher Comments A lucid description of the development of theoretical physics in the first half of this century from a unique point of view: how it affected the thought of the celebrated astrophysicist Arthur Eddington.... (read more) List Price $150.50 Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Particle Physics and Cosmology by P D B Collins Publisher Comments This readable introduction to particle physics and cosmology discusses the interaction of these two fundamental branches of physics and considers recent advances beyond the standard models. Eight chapters comprise a brief introduction to the gauge... (read more) List Price $180.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Supersymmetry Demystified (Demystified) by Patrick Labelle Publisher Comments Unravel the mystery of SUPERSYMMETRY Trying to comprehend supersymmetry but feeling a bit off balance? Grab hold of this straightforward guide and learn the fundamental concepts behind this revolutionary principle. Covers supercharges, SUPERFIELDS... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gauge Theory and Variational Principles by David Bleecker Publisher Comments A detailed and self-contained mathematical account of gauge theory, this text is geared toward beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Starting with an examination of principal fiber bundles and connections, the text explores curvature... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Elements of String Cosmology by Maurizio Gasperini Publisher Comments The standard cosmological picture of our Universe emerging from a 'big bang' leaves open many fundamental questions which string theory, a unified theory of all forces of nature, should be able to answer. The first book dedicated to string cosmology, it... (read more) List Price $124.25 Your price: $23.99 Sale - Hardcover
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The Standard Model and Beyond (Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation) by Paul Langacker Publisher Comments The Standard Model and Beyond presents an advanced introduction to the physics and formalism of the standard model and other non-abelian gauge theories. It provides a solid background for understanding supersymmetry, string theory, extra dimensions... (read more) List Price $93.50 Your price: $85.50 New - Hardcover
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Quantum Field Theory a Tourist Guide for Mathematicians by Gerald B Folland Book News Annotation Mathematicians and physicists are generally assumed to be of the same species, but they differ broadly in their attitude toward quantum field theory. Pysicists like it, but mathematicians do not, finding it mathematically incomplete. Folland... (read more) Your price: $92.00 New - Hardcover
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Principle of the Fermionic Projector by Felix Finster Book News Annotation Finster has been working for a decade and a half--just part-time--on an idea for formulating physics in a unified way based on Dirac's original concept of a sea of interacting particles, and has finally developed the necessary mathematical tools to... (read more) Your price: $58.50 Short Discount Markdown - Hardcover
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Supersymmetry by Pierre Binetruy Publisher Comments This book is an introduction to the theory of supersymmetry, which is a cornerstone to understanding the physics of elementary particles beyond the so-called "Standard Model". Supersymmetry is the first introductory book on this modern and increasingly... (read more) List Price $138.95 Your price: $39.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A First Course in String Theory by Barton Zwiebach Publisher Comments An accessible introduction to string theory, this book provides a detailed and self-contained demonstration of the main concepts involved. The first part deals with basic ideas, reviewing special relativity and electromagnetism while introducing the... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Supersymmetry DeMYSTiFied by Patrick LaBelle Publisher Comments Unravel the mystery of SUPERSYMMETRY Trying to comprehend supersymmetry but feeling a bit off balance? Grab hold of this straightforward guide and learn the fundamental concepts behind this revolutionary principle. Covers supercharges, SUPERFIELDS... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Gauge Theory of Weak Interactions 2ND Edition by Walter Greiner Synopsis Employing Greiner's successful worked-example format, this volume treats the unification of electromagnetic and weak interactions and considers related phenomena. After presenting the Fermi theory of beta decay, the book advances to the concept of... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Principle of the Fermionic Projector by Felix Finster List Price $67.00 Your price: $59.46 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The World in Eleven Dimensions: Supergravity, Supermembranes and M-Theory by M J Duff Publisher Comments The book brings together seminal papers that have shaped our current understanding of the eleven-dimensional world, from supergravity through supermembranes to M-theory.... (read more) List Price $120.25 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Physics & Mathematics of Strings Proceedings by Michael Atiyah Your price: $80.00 Used - Hardcover
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The new gravity :a new force, a new mass, a new acceleration : unifying gravity with light by Kenneth G Salem Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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