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by Brian Greene  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Brian Greene presents the bizarre world of quantum mechanics and string theory using language accessible to all while taking the reader on an exciting journey through a truly unusual universe." Blane, Powells... (read more)  List Price $15.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Brian Greene
Powells.com Staff Pick Using Simpsons and X-Files examples, Brian Greene explains our current understanding of the universe. Whereas The Elegant Universe was primarily about the obscure, largely theoretical world of susperstring theory, Fabric of the Cosmos holds to more solid... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard P Feynman
Publisher Comments The outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice his adventures... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Zukav Publisher Comments Quantum Physics is the pinnacle achievement of Western science. "Wu Li" is the Chinese word for physics. It means "Patterns of Organic Energy", but it also means "Nonsense", "My Way", "I Clutch My Ideas", and "Enlightenment". These enchanting ideas form... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard P Feynman
Publisher Comments Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was widely recognized as the most creative physicist of the post–World War II period. His career was extraordinarily expansive. From his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb a Los Alamos during... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michio Kaku Publisher Comments In Visions, theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku examines the ways the three scientific revolutions that reshaped the twentieth century -- quantum mechanics, biogenetics, and artificial intelligence -- will dramatically alter science... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Talbot Publisher Comments Today nearly everyone is familiar with holograms, three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Now, two of the world's most eminent thinkers -- University of London physicists David Bohm, a former protege of Einstein's and one... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen W Hawking
Publisher Comments "A Brief History of Time", published in 1988, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing and in worldwide acclaim and popularity, with more than nine million copies sold. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nikola Tesla Publisher Comments In the tradition of The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla, The Anti-Gravity Handbook and The Free-Energy Device Handbook, science and UFO author David Hatcher Childress takes us into the incredible world of Nikola Tesla and his amazing inventions... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michio Kaku Publisher Comments The first book-length exploration of the most exciting development in modern physics, the theory of 10-dimensional space. The theory of hyperspace, which Michio Kaku pioneered, may be the leading candidate for the Theory of Everything that Einstein spent... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Kakalios Publisher Comments The Physics of Superheroesapplies the reality of physics to the fantasy of comic books. James Kakalios explores the scientific plausibility of the powers and feats of the most famous superheroesaand discovers that in many cases the comic writers got... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments Anyone who thinks a negative charge is something that shows up on your credit card bill-or imagines that Ohm's Law dictates how long to meditate-or believes that Newtonian mechanics will fix your car-needs The Cartoon Guide to Physics. This handy... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Poundstone Synopsis John von Neumann invented the digital computer, played a key role in the development of the atom bomb, constructed a branch of mathematics known as game theory, and became a defender of a movement to bomb the Russians before they could bomb us. Now comes... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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