Physics
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50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know
$12.99 Add to cartIn a series of 50 accessible essays, Joanne Baker introduces and explains the fundamental physical concepts and laws that govern the inners workings of our universe.
From Newton’s law of gravitation- Author: Baker, Joanne
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1529425123
- Language: English
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What Makes Day and Night
$8.99 Add to cartRead and find out about what makes day and night in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.
This clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the cla
- Series: Let’s-Read-And-Find-Out Science 2
- Author: Branley, Franklyn M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0062381970
- Language: English
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Vibrations and Waves
$51.99 Add to cartAfter careful analysis of objectives and the problems involved, preliminary versions of textbooks were prepared, tested through classroom use at M.I.T. and other institutions, re-evaluated, rewritten,
- Series: M.I.T. Introductory Physics
- Author: French, A. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: January 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0393099369
- Language: English
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Car Science: An Under-The-Hood, Behind-The-Dash Look at How Cars Work
$21.99 Add to cartFrom Top Gear‘s Richard Hammond, Car Science is an intuitive and exciting children’s science book on all things cars. In four sections, Car Science includes a timeline of automotive invention; a “how … [more below]
- Author: Hammond, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0756640261
- Language: English
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Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything
$14.95 Add to cartPresents the unifying world-concept long sought by scientists, mystics, and sages: an Integral Theory of Everything
– Explains how modern science has rediscovered the Akashic Field of perennial philos- Author: Laszlo, Ervin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 03 2007
- ISBN10: 1594771812
- Language: English
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Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller Publishers Marketplace 2020 Buzz Book Amazon Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literar
- Author: Loeb, Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0358645530
- Language: English
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Cosmos and Transcendence: Breaking Through the Barrier of Scientistic Belief
$19.95 Add to cartThe book has a twofold content and aim: on the one hand it offers a radical critique of the modern world, and on the other it seeks to expound a timeless wisdom. And the second end presupposes the fir
- Author: Smith, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1735967793
- Language: English
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Magnets Push, Magnets Pull
$9.99 Add to cartCan a magnet really crush a car? How do magnets stick to the fridge without tape or glue? Discover the wonder and science of magnets in Magnets Push, Magnets Pull.
- Series: A+ Books: Science Starts
- Author: Weakland, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 01 2010
- ISBN10: 142966147X
- Language: English
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
$32.00 Add to cartA theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey–found in “no other book” (Science)–to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all: “If you want to know what’… [more below]
- Author: Strassler, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 154160329X
- Language: English
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Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything, Book 2 of 3
$29.99 Add to cartIn Molecules, bestselling author Theodore Gray demonstrates, through stunning, never-before-seen images and illustrations, how the elements of the periodic table combine to form the molecules that mak… [more below]
- Author: Gray, Theodore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1579129714
- Language: English
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The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and the host of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a memoir about growing up and a young man’s budding scientific curiosity.This is the absorbing story … [more below]
- Author: Tyson, Neil Degrasse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 159102188X
- Language: English
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The Book of Strange But True Science
$16.98 Add to cartPacked with hundreds of articles on the most interesting things that ever happened in science. Plus a few things that didn’t.
- Filled with both pragmatic, commonsense explanations and outrageous revela
- Series: Book of
- Author: Publications International Ltd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640308334
- Language: English
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Super Simple Physics: The Ultimate Bitesize Study Guide
$21.99 Add to cartCrammed with fascinating facts and all the core curriculum topics, this physics book will have you exam-ready in no time
Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this completely compre… [more below]- Series: Supersimple
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0744027535
- Language: English
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Chaos: Making a New Science
$23.00 Add to cartThe million-copy New York Times bestseller and finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award that reveals the science behind chaos theory
A work of popular science in the tradition- Author: Gleick, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113453
- Language: English
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Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartQuantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our unders… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #69
- Author: Polkinghorne, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0192802526
- Language: English
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Einstein’s Clocks, Poincare’s Maps: Empires of Time
$27.99 Add to cartClocks and trains, telegraphs and colonial conquest: the challenges of the late nineteenth century were an indispensable real-world background to the enormous theoretical breakthrough of relativity. A
- Author: Galison, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: September 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393326047
- Language: English
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The Little Book of String Theory
$21.95 Read moreThe essential beginner’s guide to string theory
The Little Book of String Theory offers a short, accessible, and entertaining introduction to one of the most talked-about areas of physics today. Strin- Series: Science Essentials #11
- Author: Gubser, Steven S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0691142890
- Language: English
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A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars
$49.92 Add to cartA brief guide to the real science of interstellar travel
With known exoplanets now numbering in the thousands and initiatives like 100 Year Starship and Breakthrough Starshot advancing the idea of int- Author: Johnson, Les
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0691212376
- Language: English
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
$12.95 Read moreA short, provocative book about why “useless” science often leads to humanity’s greatest technological breakthroughs
A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources- Author: Flexner, Abraham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0691174768
- Language: English
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The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics
$50.67 Read moreA “fascinating [and] provocative” argument by a particle physicist–marshalling a “heady mix of history, philosophy and cutting-edge theory” (Wall Street Journal)–for monism, the ancient idea about t
- Author: P?s, Heinrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674855
- Language: English
