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The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation
by Robert K Adair  Publisher Comments Although modern physics surrounds us, its concepts constantly referred to in every newspaper, even educated nonscientists find the subject intimidating in the extreme. Most attempts to explain physics to general readers are either obscured by masses of...
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Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery
by Jeff Goldberg Publisher Comments A true scientific page-turner that traces a remarkable scientific breakthrough (the isolation of endorphins in the brain) as dedicated scientists race--not only with their fellow scientists--but against time and the profit hungry giant pharmaceutical...
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Superstrings and the Search for the Theory of Everything
by F David Peat Publisher Comments "Peat grapples with these amazingly recondite notions and succeeds brilliantly in making them clear." --Publishers Weekly...
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Einsteinus Greatest Blunder?: The Cosmological Constant and Other Fudge Factors in the Physics of the Universe
by Donald Goldsmith Publisher Comments The Big Bang: A Big Bust? The cosmos seems to be in crisis, and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see it. How, for instance, can the universe be full of stars far older than itself? Howcould space have once expanded faster than the speed of...
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Where next, Columbus? :the future of space exploration
by Valerie Neal Publisher Comments In the decades since the launch of Sputnik, the world has thrilled to the long-dreamed-of moon walks of the Apollo astronauts, marvelled at spectacular photographs of the outer planets brought to us by Voyager, and watched in horror as the Challenger...
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Light At the Edge of the Universe
by Michael D Lemonick Publisher Comments Will the universe expand forever? Or will it collapse in a Big Crunch within the next few billion years? If the Big Bang theory is correct in presenting the origins of the universe as a smooth fireball, how did the universe come to contain structures as...
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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...
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The Bigger Bang
by James E Lidsey Publisher Comments A clear, concise, and highly accessible account of the latest ideas on the origin and early evolution of the universe....
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Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability
by C A Bowers Publisher Comments Do computers foster cultural diversity? Ecological sustainability? In our age of high-tech euphoria we seem content to leave tough questions like these to the experts. That dangerous inclination is at the heart of this important examination of the...
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The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought
by David Gelernter Book News Annotation The author, one of the leaders in artificial intelligence research, begins with the question: can we introduce emotion into the computer? In providing an answer, he not only points to a future revolution in computers but changes views about the human...
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What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Electronic Frontier
by James Gleick Synopsis A lively time capsule, this brilliant chronicle explores and illuminates the ways in which technology has rearranged our world during the past ten years....
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Prisons of Light: Black Holes
by Kitty Ferguson Publisher Comments In this jargon-free review of one of the most fascinating topics in modern science, acclaimed science writer, Kitty Ferguson, examines the discovery of black holes, their nature, and what they can teach us about the mysteries of the universe. In search...
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Why Nothing Can Travel Faster Than Light...
by Barry E Zimmerman Publisher Comments The Zimmermans range broadly across the enormous spectrum that is nature: from how the universe began to its probable fate, from microscopic viruses to dinosaurs, from the effects of radiation to the depletion of the ozone layer. This collection of...
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Too Hot to Handle: The Race for Cold Fusion
by Frank Close Book News Annotation Close, a leading physicist (Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the Rutherford Laboratory in Britain) and popular science writer, makes accessible to a wide audience the scientific premises of cold fusion, its potential to be a practical...
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From Quark to Quasar
by Peter Cadogan Publisher Comments From the invisibly small world of elementary particles to the inconceivable immensity of the most remote astronomical objects, extremes of size and distance are lmost impossible to imagine. From Quark to Quasar takes the reader on a pictorial journey...
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Atoms of Silence: An Exploration of Cosmic Evolution
by Reeves Publisher Comments In the grand tradition of popular exposition, astrophysicist Hubert Reeves explains current scientific understanding of the deepest mysteries of the universe in terms that will excite, stimulate, and educate the nonscientific reader.When it was first...
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Science At the Frontier Volume 1
by Addison Greenwood Publisher Comments Throughout this work the reader is witness to scientific discovery and debate centered on such common concerns as the dramatic and transforming effect of computers on scientists' thinking and research; the development of more cross-disciplinary...
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Paradigms Lost: Images of Man in the Mirror of Science
by John L. Casti Book News Annotation The author is an applied mathematician (econometrics, systems theory) who has been associated with the RAND Corporation, the University of Arizona and the Technical University of Vienna. He is a man of evidently wide-ranging curiosity and considerable...
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From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery
by Leon Lederman Book News Annotation Lederman and Schramm (respectively physics and physical sciences, U. of Chicago) tell of the development of current views on the nature of space, time, matter, and forces. They explain these views by describing how tools and experiments used in either...
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Blinded by the light :the secret life of the sun
by John Gribbin Book News Annotation Gribbin, author of In search of Schrodinger's cat, a popular introduction to quantum physics, here turns his attention to recent findings in solar research, including the sun's role in the search for the missing "cold dark matter" in the universe. For...
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