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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 by Michio Kaku Publisher Comments Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100. In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible—gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Wrinkles in Time: Witness to the Birth of the Universe by George Smoot Publisher Comments An engrossing tale of two decades of adventure in exotic and dangerous climes, where Smoot and his colleagues used radiotelescopes in search of the biggest and oldest objects anywhere--the "seeds" that spawned our universe following the Big Bang. Photos... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments From One of the Most Brilliant Minds of Our Time Comes a Book that Clarifies His Most Important Ideas Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, remains one of the landmark volumes in scientific writing of our time. But for years... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick Publisher Comments From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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God and the New Physics by Paul Davies Publisher Comments How did the universe begin and how will it end? What is matter? What is mind, and can it survive death? What are time and space, and how do they relate to ideas about God? Is the order of the universe the result of accident or design? The most profound... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Wrinkles in Time by George Smoot Publisher Comments Behold the Handwriting of God Astrophysicist and adventurer George Smoot spent twenty years pursuing the "holy grail of science" -- a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. For decades he... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living by Fritjof Capra Publisher Comments The author of the bestselling The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life explores the profound social implications of emerging scientific principles and provides an innovative framework for using them to understand and solve some of the most important issues... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman and Michelle Feynman Publisher Comments "I'm an explorer, OK? I like to find out!" — One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality by Dr. Ronald L. Mallett and Bruce Henderson Publisher Comments This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist, Dr. Ronald Mallett, who recently discovered the basic equations for a working time machine that he believes can be used as a transport vehicle to the past. Combining... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind Publisher Comments Over the past few decades, a handful of scientists have been racing to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only 4 percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, and me, and every star and planet. The rest is completely unknown. ... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, & Space-Time (Helix Book) by Richard P Feynman Publisher Comments No twentieth-century American scientist is better known to a wider spectrum of people than Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988)—physicist, teacher, author, and cultural icon. His autobiographies and biographies have been read and enjoyed by millions... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen W Hawking Publisher Comments The author of the multi-million selling "A Brief History Of Time" brings us fully up to date with the advances in scientific thinking, and explains that we are now nearer than ever to a full understanding of the universe. A discussion of scientific... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Accidental Universe by P C W Davies Publisher Comments In The Accidental Universe renowned expositor Paul Davies grapples with the most fundamental questions of all. What is our purpose and the purpose of the universe? Are both an accident of nature? Paul Davies guides us through the mysterious coincidences... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists by Fred Alan Wolf Publisher Comments Preface: Six Years After Part One. Welcome to the Machine Chapter 1. The Passive Observer Chapter 2. Dawn of Consciousness Chapter 3. All Is One, All Is Change Chapter 4. The Idea of Discontinuity Chapter 5. Zeno and Moving Things (Zeno’ s First... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra Publisher Comments Here is the book that brought the mystical implications of subatomic physics to popular consciousness for the very first time—way back in 1975. This special edition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of this early Shambhala best seller that... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe by Evalyn Gates Publisher Comments Evalyn Gates, a talented astrophysicist, transports readers to the edge of contemporary science to explore the revolutionary tool--"Einstein's telescope"--that is unlocking the secrets of the Universe. Einstein's telescope, or gravitational lensing, is... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose Publisher Comments This groundbreaking book presents a new perspective on three of cosmology’s essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awaits us? Penrose shows how the expected... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Quantum Self by Danah Zohar Publisher Comments In The Quantum Self, Danah Zohar argues that the insights of modem physics can illuminate our understanding of everyday life -- our relationships to ourselves, to others, and to the world at large. Guiding us through the strange and fascinating workings... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments FROM ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS OF OUR TIME COMES A BOOK THAT CLARIFIES HIS MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time remains a landmark volume in scientific writing. But for readers who have... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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