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Longing for the Harmonies: Themes & Variations from Modern Physics by Frank Wilczek Publisher Comments Devoted to sharing their own delight and awe before the fundamental mysteries of the cosmos, Frank Wilczek (winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics) and science writer Betsy Devine also have a serious purpose: to reveal to the lay reader how a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose Publisher Comments Since the earliest efforts of the ancient Greeks to find order amid the chaos around us, there has been continual accelerated progress toward understanding the laws that govern our universe. And the particularly important advances made by means of the... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics #204: Lagrangian Transport in Geophysical Jets and Waves: The Dynamical Systems Approach by Roger M Samelson Publisher Comments This book provides an accessible introduction to a new set of methods for the analysis of Lagrangian motion in geophysical flows. These methods were originally developed in the abstract mathematical setting of dynamical systems theory, through a... (read more) List Price $81.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Quantum and the Lotus by Matthieu Ricard Publisher Comments Matthieu Ricard trained as a molecular biologist, working in the lab of a Nobel prize—winning scientist, but when he read some Buddhist philosophy, he became drawn to Buddhism. Eventually he left his life in science to study with Tibetan... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Strange Beauty by George Johnson Publisher Comments No contemporary scientist has done more to shape our understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner many consider the most brilliant physicist of his generation. His discoveries of the quark and the Eightfold Way were... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos by Michio Kaku Publisher Comments In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most tantalizing of all, the possibility that parallel universes... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek Publisher Comments Physicist understanding of the essential nature of reality changed radically over the past quarter century. Frank Wilczek has played a lead role in establishing the new paradigms. Transcending the clash and mismatch of older ideas about what matter is... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Albert Einstein (97 Edition) by Albrecht Folsing Publisher Comments "(Folsing) provides a nuanced, nonjudgmental personal portrait resting firmly on prodigious archival work. Albert Einstein allows us to see deeply into (his) inner world". -- Alan Lightman, The New York Review of Books The name of Albert Einstein has... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking Publisher Comments Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Qed : the Strange Theory of Light and Matter (85 - Old Edition) by Richard P. Feynman Publisher Comments Famous the world over for the creative brilliance of his insights into the physical world, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the nonscientist. QED — the edited... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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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The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek Publisher Comments Our understanding of natures deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past twenty-five years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes Publisher Comments A gripping, authoritative account of the men, women, science, drama and intrigue behind the single most important event of the century: the discovery of nuclear energy and construction of the atomic bomb. 32 pages of black-and-white photographs.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller Publisher Comments We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times. As citizens who will elect future presidents of the most powerful and influential country in the world, we need to know'"truly understand, not just rely on television's talking... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Flying Circus of Physics with Answers by Jearl Walker Publisher Comments This new version now contains answers to all the over 600 stimulating questions. Walker covers the entirety of naked-eye physics by exploring problems of the everyday world. He focuses on the flight of Frisbees, sounds of thunder, rainbows, sand dunes... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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50 Physics Ideas You Really Need To Know (09 Edition) by Joanne Baker Publisher Comments As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Keplers law of planetary motion and Newtons law of gravitation, Joanne Baker unravels the sometimes baffling complexities of modern scientific... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Hardcover
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall Publisher Comments The universe has its secrets. It may even hide extra dimensions, different from anything ever imagined. A whole raft of remarkable concepts now rides atop the scientific firmament, including parallel universes, warped geometry, and threedimensional sink... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Patterns in the Void: Why Nothing Is Important by Sten Odenwald Publisher Comments Patterns in the Void examines the great dark matter and dark regions that pervade the universe, from elementary particles to the immense areas of “vacuum” that make up most of deep space, and everything that is – or is not. Like the void... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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