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The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds
by Gavin Pretor-Pinney  Publisher Comments A quirky, clever guide for everyone who loves to look up. Where do clouds come from? Why do they look the way they do? And why have they captured the imagination of timeless artists, Romantic poets, and every kid who's ever held a crayon? Journalist and...
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava Sobel 
Synopsis While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial...
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Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
by Galileo Galilei Publisher Comments Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of a telescope, and his...
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by Sebastian Junger
Publisher Comments It was "The Perfect Storm," a tempest created by so rare a convergence of factors — a hurricane from Bermuda, a Canadian cold front, and a storm from the Great Lakes — that it could not possibly have been worse. Boasting ferocious waves ten...
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Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life
by Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments In this funny, inspiring, and revelatory book, a young scientist looks back at the time he shared with Richard Feynman. In the early 1980s, Leonard Mlodinow came to the California Institute of Technology to begin a postdoctoral fellowship. Afraid he...
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Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation
by Joao Magueijo Publisher Comments What if the speed of lightnow accepted as one of the unchanging foundations of modern physicswere not constant? Brilliant young physicist Joo Magueijo puts forth the heretical idea that light once traveled faster, in the very early days of the universean...
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The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
by Timothy Ferris Publisher Comments From the prizewinning author who has been called "the greatest science writer in the world" comes this delightfully comprehensive and comprehensible report on how science today envisions the universe as a whole. Timothy Ferris provides a clear, elegantly...
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Quantum Theory : Very Short Introduction (02 Edition)
by John Polkinghorn Publisher Comments Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise...
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The...
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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
by Jennet Conant Publisher Comments They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace. There...
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Coffee with Einstein (Coffee With...Series)
by Carlos I Calle Publisher Comments One of the most gifted scientists who ever lived, Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein revealed to us the elasticity of space and time and altered our entire conception of the universe. Over an imaginary coffee with top NASA physicist Carlos Calle...
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Mind Over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos
by K C Cole Publisher Comments The universe comes down to earth in K. C. Cole's Mind Over Matter, a fresh and witty exploration of physics, cosmology, mathematics, astronomy, and more. Like no other science writer, Cole demystifies scientific concepts and humanizes the people who...
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The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air
by Marcel Gil Minnaert Publisher Comments A highly engaging study of mirages, illusions of multiple moons, the fata morgana, colored shadows and scores of other phenomena in a book praised by Science and Math Weekly as "a great depository of projects, science fair ventures, experiments, and...
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The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory of Relativity (Dover Books on Physics)
by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments Here are the 11 papers that forged the general and special theories of relativity: seven papers by Einstein, plus two papers by Lorentz and one each by Minkowski and Weyl. "A thrill to read again the original papers by these giants." — School...
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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (P.S.)
by Simon Singh
Powells.com Staff Pick Simon Singh continues to demonstrate his mastery of bringing complex concepts to lay readers with this brilliant book on the origins of the universe. Singh clearly presents an overview of the history of science, filled with colorful characters, and how...
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The Quantum Universe
by Anthony J G Hey Publisher Comments A pictorial account of the fascinating world of subatomic particles. General readers will be able to understand and appreciate this interesting survey of quantum mechanics, a theory that preceded such diverse developments as the silicon chip, laser...
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The Seat of the Soul
by Gary Zukav Publisher Comments With the same extraordinary skill that he used to demystify scientific abstraction and the new physics, Gary Zukay, the award-winning author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters, here takes us on a brilliant and penetrating exploration of the new phase of...
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MR Tompkins in Paperback: Comprising 'mr Tompkins in Wonderland' and 'mr Tompkins Explores the Atom'
by George Gamow Publisher Comments Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many thousands of readers (since his first appearance over fifty years ago) as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams and adventures lead him into a world inside the atom. George Gamow's classic provides a...
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments Albert Einsteins classic guide to the theory of relativitywith insights from todays leading experts This new edition of Relativitythe first updated version in over fifty yearsincludes a wealth of original material written by some of todays foremost...
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Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
by Gary Zukav Publisher Comments Gary Zukav has written "the Bible" for those who are curious about the mind-expanding discoveries of advanced physics, but who have no scientific background. Like a Wu Li Master who would teach us wonder for the falling petal before speaking of gravity...
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