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Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius
by Silvan S. Schweber  Publisher Comments Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary marked by the advent of quantum mechanics. By exploring how these men differed (in their worldview, in their...
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Ideas & Opinions
by Albert Einstein Publisher Comments IDEAS AND OPINIONS contains essays by eminent scientist Albert Einstein on subjects ranging from atomic energy, relativity, and religion to human rights, government, and economics. Previously published articles, speeches, and letters are gathered here to...
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Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla
by John J. O'Neill Publisher Comments Even the gods of old, in the wildest imaginings of their worshipers, never undertook such gigantic tasks of world-wide dimension as those which Tesla attempted and accomplished. -from Chapter One First published in 1944 and long a favorite of Tesla fans,...
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Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture
by Peter L. Galison and Gerald Holton and Silvan S. Schweber Publisher Comments More than fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein's vital engagement with the world continues to inspire others, spurring conversations, projects, and research, in the sciences as well as the humanities. Einstein for the 21st Century shows us why...
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A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (Great Discoveries)
by Richard Reeves Publisher Comments A new intellectual biography of Ernest Rutherford, the twentieth century's greatest experimental physicist. Ernest Rutherford, who grew up in colonial New Zealand and came to Cambridge on a scholarship, made numerous revolutionary discoveries, among...
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson 
Powells.com Staff Pick In preparing this engaging biography of the world's most famous smart guy, Isaacson enlisted the aid of several physicists including Murray Gell-Mann, Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss, and Douglas Stone. As a result, this is much more than an "Einstein...
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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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In Albert's Shadow: The Life and Letters of Mileva Maric, Einstein's First Wife
by Milan Popovic Publisher Comments Mileva Maric was a remarkable woman by any measure. One of the first women to study physics at a European university, she met and fell in love with a young physicist whose revolutionary theories would shortly transform our understanding of the universe...
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Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives
by Peter Ackroyd Publisher Comments When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets...
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Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius
by William Shea Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]) and index....
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Principia (On the Shoulders of Giants)
by Isaac Newton Publisher Comments Establishing the laws of universal gravity and the fundamental laws of motion, Newton's momentous 1687 essay stands as one of the most important works in physics, and it revolutionized the way scientists investigate and prove their theories. In Principia,...
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Newton: A Very Short Introduction
by Robert Iliffe Publisher Comments Newton's reputation was the subject of intense debate long before his death in 1727. While alive, numerous opponents sought to topple his theories, and his views on religion were considered by many to be unorthodox. For the vast majority of scholars...
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Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity
by Andrew Robinson Publisher Comments With contributions from Freeman Dyson, Stephen Hawking, João Magueijo, Steven Weinberg, Philip Anderson, Robert Schulmann, Philip Glass, Max Jammer, Sir Joseph Rotblat, I. Bernard Cohen, and Sir Arthur C. Clarke This definitive illustrated study of one...
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Einstein:: The Life and Times
by Ronald W Clark Publisher Comments Ronald W. Clark's definitive biography of Einstein, the Promethean figure of our age, goes behind the phenomenal intellect to revel the human side of the legendary absent-minded professor who confidently claimed that space and time were not what they...
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The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture
by Mordechai Feingold Publisher Comments Isaac Newton is a legendary figure whose mythical dimension threatens to overshadow the actual man. The story of the apple falling from the tree may or may not be true, but Isaac Newton's revolutionary discoveries and their importance to the...
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Coffee with Isaac Newton (Coffee With...Series)
by Michael White Publisher Comments Sir Isaac Newton formulated the concept of gravity, devised a radically new theory of light, and created a calculus that revolutionized mathematics. Join him for a mind-expanding tour of the principles of modern science! You’ll discover that there...
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Isaac Newton
by Richard S Westfall Synopsis Los logros de Isaac Newton en el terreno de las matermaticas y la fisica representaron la culminaciin del movimiento precursor de la ciencia moderna. Este libro reconstruye minuciosamente su vida y su mundo....
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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...
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Sidereus Nuncius, or the Sidereal Messenger
by Galileo Galilei Publisher Comments "This fine translation is a god-send. . . . Surely you want to read what Galileo wrote. If so buy this book. Van Helden's introduction is scholarly; no one knows more about Galileo's telescope; the translation is superb; Van Helden's review of the...
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Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
by Charles Thorpe Publisher Comments At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons...
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