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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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Neutrino by Frank Close Publisher Comments Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. These tiny, ghostly particles are formed by the billions in stars and pass through us constantly, unseen, at almost the speed of light. Yet half a century after their discovery, we still... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics by M G Veltman Publisher Comments This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the universe works. We are introduced to the known particles of the world we live in. An elegant explanation of... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Think : a Compelling Introduction To Philosophy (99 Edition) by Simon Blackburn Publisher Comments Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy. Written expressly for "anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them," Think... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Supersymmetry in Particle Physics: An Elementary Introduction by Ian J. R. Aitchison Publisher Comments Supersymmetry represents the culmination of the search for fundamental symmetries that has dominated particle physics for 50 years. Traditionally, the constituents of matter (fermions) were regarded as different from the particles (bosons) transmitting... (read more) Your price: $82.75 New - Hardcover
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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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The Los Alamos Primer by Robert Serber Publisher Comments The classified lectures that galvanized the Manhattan Project scientists--with annotations for the nonspecialist reader and an introduction by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. In March 1943 a group of young scientists, sequestered on a mesa near Santa... (read more) Your price: $48.00 New - Hardcover
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Particles and Fundamental Interactions: Supplements, Problems and Solutions: A Deeper Insight Into Particle Physics (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics) by Sylvie Braibant Publisher Comments This volume is an exercises and solutions manual that... (read more) Your price: $59.95 New - Trade Paper
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Particle Garden: Our Universe as Understood by Particle Physicists by Gordon Kane Publisher Comments The Particle Garden is the clearest survey of particle physics, including the theory, its experimental foundations, its relations to cosmology and astrophysics, and its future. Known as an excellent expositor of physics, Kane has marshaled his research... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Present At the Creation (10 Edition) by Amir D. Aczel Publisher Comments The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Levy Statistics & Laser Cooling by Francois Bardou Publisher Comments vy statistics to understand laser cooling of atoms.... (read more) Your price: $67.50 New - Trade Paper
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Elementary Nuclear Theory: Second Edition by Hans Albrecht Bethe Publisher Comments This compact treatment of the basic theory of nuclear forces, structures, and reactions bases its explanations almost entirely on the familiar results of nonrelativistic quantum theory. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Standard Model: A Primer by Cliff Burgess Publisher Comments This book was first published in 2006. The standard model brings together two theories of particle physics in order to describe the interactions of subatomic particles, except those due to gravity. This book uses the standard model as a vehicle for... (read more) Your price: $69.75 New - Trade Paper
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Quantum Frontier:large Hadron Collider (09 Edition) by Don Lincoln Publisher Comments The highest-energy particle accelerator ever built, the Large Hadron Collider runs under the border between France and Switzerland. It leapt into action on September 10, 2008, amid unprecedented global press coverage and widespread fears that its energy... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Weak Scale Supersymmetry by Howard Baer Publisher Comments Supersymmetric models of particle physics predict new superpartner matter states for each particle in the Standard Model. These superpartners will have wide ranging implications, from cosmology to observations at high energy accelerators, such as CERN's... (read more) Your price: $77.50 New - Trade Paper
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Scottish Graduate #65: Lhc Physics by T. (edt) Binoth Synopsis Written by an international team of well-known scientists, this volume covers a broad spectrum of experimental and theoretical activity in particle physics. The expert contributors provide a solid academic review of the relevant physics and computing... (read more) Your price: $137.95 New - Hardcover
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The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings: Third Revised Edition by Martin Gardner Publisher Comments This newly updated edition of a well-known work explores a pair of modern science's most fundamental discoveries: the asymmetric DNA helix and the overthrow of parity (left-right symmetry) in particle physics. Absorbing and thought-provoking, The New... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $13.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Quest for Quarks by Brian Mccusker Publisher Comments A short introduction to elementary particles that discusses the ultimate structure of matter: atoms, the nucleus, protons, neutrons and pions, and quarks.... (read more) Your price: $120.25 New - Hardcover
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Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science by Ian Sample Publisher Comments In Massive, prize-winning science journalist Ian Sample tells the story of the race to locate the Higgs Boson, the elusive particle whose existence remains to be proven. Since 1964, when Peter Higgs described an over-arching theory of mass that depended... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Weak Interactions by Eugene D. Commins Publisher Comments Weak interactions of leptons and quarks provides an up-to-date account of this continuing research.... (read more) Your price: $77.25 New - Trade Paper
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