Physics
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We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
$19.99 Add to cartThe heroic story of the Mercury Seven, the pioneer astronauts who risked their lives for America’s first manned space voyages.Project Mercury ran from 1959 through 1963, put the first American in spac
- Author: Carpenter, Scott M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 12, 2010
- ISBN10: 1439181039
- Language: English
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The Quantum Enigma: Finding the Hidden Key
$19.95 Add to cartFollowing the overthrow of the classical world picture by the findings of quantum mechanics, physicists have proposed a broad gamut of alternative worldviews. This book begins with the major recognit
- Author: Smith, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988576914
- Language: English
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Exploring the Night Sky: The Equinox Astronomy Guide for Beginners
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Exploring the Night Sky is aimed at novice star gazers anxious to expand their astronomical repertoire beyond the Big and Little Dippers. Dickinson has designed a superb introdu
- Author: Dickinson, Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: February 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0920656668
- Language: English
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Evolution of Physics
$19.99 Add to cartOriginally published in 1938 by Cambridge University Press, The Evolution of Physics traces the development of ideas in physics, in a manner suitable for any reader. Written by famed physicist Albert … [more below]
- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 30 1967
- ISBN10: 0671201565
- Language: English
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Quantum Theory
$40.00 Add to cartThis superb text by David Bohm, formerly Princeton University and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, provides a formulation of the quantum theory in t
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Bohm, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 01 1989
- ISBN10: 486659690
- Language: English
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Physics II for Dummies
$29.99 Add to cartA plain-English guide to advanced physics
Does just thinking about the laws of motion make your head spin? Does studying electricity short your circuits? Physics II For Dummies walks you through the e
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Holzner, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0470538066
- Language: English
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A Short Bright Flash: Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse
$15.95 Add to cartAugustin Fresnel (1788-1827) shocked the scientific elite with his unique understanding of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a brilliant feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze ma… [more below]
- Author: Levitt, Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0393350894
- Language: English
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God: the Evidence
$19.82 Add to cartThe “holy grail” of physics is quantum gravity, often called the theory of everything. But any scientific theory will be incomplete without the God of the Bible. Physicists claim the cosmos began with
- Author: Larsen, Ronald W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 19, 2022
- ISBN10: 1728370108
- Language: English
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Schaum’s Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition
$24.00 Add to cartTough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Textbook too Pricey?
Fortunately, there’s Schaum’s. This all-in-one-package includes more than 700 fully-solved problems, examples, and practice
- Author: Hecht, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1259587398
- Language: English
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Conquering the Physics GRE
$40.00 Add to cartThe Physics GRE plays a significant role in deciding admissions to nearly all US physics Ph.D. programs, yet few exam-prep books focus on the test’s actual content and unique structure. Recognized as … [more below]
- Author: Kahn, Yoni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1108409563
- Language: English
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Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures
$16.99 Add to cartDeveloping a theory that seamlessly combines relativity and quantum mechanics, the most important conceptual breakthroughs in twentieth century physics, has proved to be a difficult and ongoing challe… [more below]
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: July 13 1999
- ISBN10: 0521658624
- Language: English
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A Little Book of Coincidence: In the Solar System
$8.95 Add to cartVenus draws a beautiful pentagram around Earth every eight years. Jupiter’s two largest moons draw a perfect four-fold flower. The Planets grandly play out the slow Music of the Spheres. Is there a se… [more below]
- Series: Wooden Books North America Editions
- Author: Martineau, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1952178061
- Language: English
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Fundamentals of Astrodynamics: Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cartDeveloped at the U.S. Air Force Academy, this teaching text is widely known and used throughout the astrodynamics and aerospace engineering communities. Completely revised and updated, this second edi… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Bate, Roger R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0486497046
- Language: English
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
$28.00 Add to cartFrom a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos–and a call for a more liberatory practice of science.
Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize i- Author: Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1541724704
- Language: English
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
$6.99 Add to cartDiscover Albert Einstein’s groundbreaking theories with “”Relativity: The Special and the General Theory.”” This influential work provides a comprehensive exploration of the principles that revolutio
- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: June 01 2017
- ISBN10: 8175994657
- Language: English
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The Principia
$17.99 Add to cartSir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles) is considered to be among the finest scientific works ever published. His grand unifying idea of gravitation, with effects extending … [more below]
- Series: Great Minds
- Author: Sir Isaac Newton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0879759801
- Language: English
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
$21.95 Add to cartThe definitive account of Tesla’s life and work
Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, pate- Author: Carlson, W. Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: April 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0691165610
- Language: English
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Magnetic Current
$6.94 Add to cartEdward Leedskalnin was an eccentric Latvian emigrant to the United States and amateur sculptor who single-handedly built the monument known as Coral Castle in Florida. He was also known for his unusua
- Author: Leedskalnin, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 26
- Publish Date: June 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1684119227
- Language: English
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Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
$19.99 Add to cartArt interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words–with physicis
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shlain, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0061227978
- Language: English
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
$17.95 Add to cartMixing memoir and visionary science, a leading astrophysicist’s groundbreaking personal account of her life and ideas
Is the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna- Author: Levin, Janna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 069123227X
- Language: English
