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  • Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions

    by Alain Aspect ...
    A Nobel laureate offers a brief lesson on physics' biggest mystery, accessibly explaining the two quantum revolutions that changed our understanding of reality.At the start of the twentieth century, the first quantum revolution upset our vision of the world. New physics offered surprising realities, such as wave-particle duality, and led to major inventions: the transistor, the laser, and today's ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quantum Chance

    Nonlocality, Teleportation and Other Quantum Marvels

    by Nicolas Gisin ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Quantum physics, which offers an explanation of the world on the smallest scale, has fundamental implications that pose a serious challenge to ordinary logic. Particularly counterintuitive is the notion of entanglement, which has been explored for the past 30 years and posits an ubiquitous randomness capable of manifesting itself simultaneously in more than one place.This amazing 'non-locality' is ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics

    Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy

    by J. S. Bell ...
    John Bell, FRS was one of the leading expositors and interpreters of modern quantum theory. He is particularly famous for his discovery of the crucial difference between the predictions of conventional quantum mechanics and the implications of local causality, a concept insisted on by Einstein. John Bell's work played a major role in the development of our current understanding of the profound ... Read more

    $68.09 USD

  • Introduction to Quantum Optics

    From the Semi-classical Approach to Quantized Light

    by Gilbert Grynberg, Alain Aspect, Claude Fabre ...
    Covering a number of important subjects in quantum optics, this textbook is an excellent introduction for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, familiarizing readers with the basic concepts and formalism as well as the most recent advances. The first part of the textbook covers the semi-classical approach where matter is quantized, but light is not. It describes significant ... Read more

    $97.59 USD

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  • Enlightenment 2.0

    by Joseph Heath ...
    The co-author of the internationally bestselling The Rebel Sell brings us "slow politics": promoting slow thought, slow deliberation and slow debate.Over the last twenty years, the political systems of the western world have become increasingly divided--not between right and left but between crazy and non-crazy. Whats more, the crazies seem to be gaining the upper hand. Rational thought cannot ... Read more

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  • The Nature of Space and Time (New in Paper)

    by Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united in a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos ever be combined? On this issue, two of the world's most famous ... Read more

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  • Being Mortal

    Medicine and What Matters in the End

    by Atul Gawande ...
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  • David and Goliath

    Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

    by Malcolm Gladwell ...
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  • The Quantum World

    The disturbing theory at the heart of reality

    by New Scientist ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert
    Forget everything you thought you knew about reality.The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are one and the same, and objects change their behaviour according to whether they are being watched. This is not some alternative universe but the realm of the very small, where quantum mechanics rules. ... Read more

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  • General Relativity 1: Newton vs Einstein

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are the two major pillars of 20th century physics. These theories, launched within five years of one another, revolutionized our understanding of nature. They utterly dismantled the conceptual basis of Newtonian physics that had been the gold standard of science for over 200 years, and introduced radically new concepts that defy human intuition. These theories may ... Read more

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  • Theory of Quantum Physics

    Scientific Concepts, #5

    by Barry Bingham ...
    Series Book 5 - Scientific Concepts
    This book provides a beginner’s guide to this difficult and rarely understood topic.Quantum Physics is not generally easily understood and is a mystery to most people. Along with the theory of relativity, is one of the two major revolutionary ideas that shook the world of physics to the core in the early 20th century.The author takes a complex subject and breaks it down into easy to understand ... Read more

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