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  • Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

    by Gordon Fraser ...
    This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Realizing that the whole world had to be his stage, he pioneered the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, a vital focus of Third ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Quantum Exodus

    Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust

    by Gordon Fraser ...
    It was no accident that the Holocaust and the Atomic Bomb happened at the same time. When the Nazis came into power in 1933, their initial objective was not to get rid of Jews. Rather, their aim was to refine German culture: Jewish professors and teachers at fine universities were sacked. Atomic science had attracted a lot of Jewish talent, and as Albert Einstein and other quantum exiles scattered ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • A Preface to Pope

    by Ian Robert Fraser Gordon ...
    Series series Preface Books
    This second edition of Ian Gordon's A Preface to Pope places the poet within the social, cultural and intellectual context of his time. It throws new light on the theoretical and imaginative structures of Pope's poetry focusing on the linguistic complexity at its centre. It offers a critical survey of his work and also contains introductory essays. The book concludes with a reference section which ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Elijah the Pilgrim Prophet

    A Study in the Life of Elijah the Tishbite

    by Gordon Fraser ...
    Reading about the great characters that of the past has many benefits. We profit by them, learn to bypass their failures, gain courage from their strength in times of crucial stress and strain, and more.For Christians, one of the unmistakably great Old Testament characters is Elijah the Tishbite, of the tribe of Naphtali. He has been written about for centuries by many authors. Ravens fed him, God ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Song of The Spirit River

    by Gordon Fraser ...
    These wonderful stories interweave history with fiction and are deeply connected to their geographical setting in the Laurentians in Québec. The author brings romance and some life's lessons to bear in these touching stories. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Star Territory

    Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Gordon Fraser ...
    Series series Material Texts
    The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new constellation" in the firmament of nations. The streets and avenues of its capital city were mapped in reference to celestial observations. And as the nineteenth century unfolded, all efforts to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Star Territory

    Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Gordon Fraser ...
    Series series Material Texts
    The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new constellation" in the firmament of nations. The streets and avenues of its capital city were mapped in reference to celestial observations. And as the nineteenth century unfolded, all efforts to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The New Physics

    For the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Gordon Fraser ...
    Underpinning all the other branches of science, physics affects the way we live our lives, and ultimately how life itself functions. Recent scientific advances have led to dramatic reassessment of our understanding of the world around us, and made a significant impact on our lifestyle. In this book, leading international experts, including Nobel prize winners, explore the frontiers of modern ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

    28th International Conference, FASE 2025, Held as Part of the International Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2025, Hamilton, ON, Canada, May 3–8, 2025, Proceedings

    Edited by Artur Boronat, Gordon Fraser ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2025, which was held as part of the International Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2025, in Hamilton, Canada, in May 2025.The 9 full and 2 short papers included in the proceedings, together with one invited keynote paper and 3 ... Read more

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    How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

    by Dava Sobel ...
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  • River of Shadows

    Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    **A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, The Mark Lynton History Prize, and the Sally Hacker Prize for the History of Technology“A panoramic vision of cultural change” —The New York TimesThrough the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Orwell's Roses explores what it was about California in the late 19th ... Read more

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  • Hollow Earth

    The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilization

    by David Standish ...
    Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 1691 by Sir Edmond Halley (of comet fame), who suggested that there might be life down there as well. Hollow Earth traces the surprising, marvelous, and just plain weird permutations his ideas have taken over the centuries. From science fiction to ... Read more

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