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  • The Science of Interstellar

    by Kip Thorne ...
    A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan’s award-winning film, Interstellar, from executive producer and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Kip Thorne.Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who assisted Nolan on the ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Black Holes & Time Warps

    Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

    by Kip Thorne ...
    Series series Commonwealth Fund Book Program
    **Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in PhysicsEver since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even Einstein himself rejected them.**Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Warped Side of Our Universe

    An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves

    by Kip Thorne, Lia Halloran ...
    Epic verse and pulsating paintings merge to shed light on time travel, black holes, gravitational waves and the birth of the universe.Nearly two decades in the making, The Warped Side of Our Universe marks the historic collaboration of Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne and award-winning artist Lia Halloran. It brings to vivid life the wonders and wildness of our universe’s “Warped Side”—objects and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    The Science of Interstellar

    by Kip Thorne ...
    Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 58 min

    Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, shows us that the movie's jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded in real science.Thorne shares his experiences working ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Dark Sun

    The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

    by Richard Rhodes ...
    Narrated by Richard Rhodes ...

    Abridged

    6 hours

    Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year

    Edited by Neil Clarke ...
    Series series Best Science Fiction of the Year
    To keep up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more—a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the inaugural volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The De-Textbook

    The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew

    by Cracked.com ...
    You are an idiot.Don't get defensive! It's not your fault. For decades your teachers, authority figures and textbooks have been lying to you. You do not have five senses. Your tongue doesn't have neatly segregated taste-bud zones. You don't know what the pyramids really looked like. You're even pooping wrong - Jesus, you're a wreck!But it's going to be okay. Because we're here to help. Packed with ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • Spooky Action at a Distance

    Why Space and Times Are Doomed—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything

    by George Musser ...
    Long-listed for the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardDelightfully readable, Spooky Action at a Distance is a mind-bending voyage to the frontiers of modern physics that will change the way we think about reality.What is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally ask. Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape. Yet over the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Most Wanted Particle

    The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics

    by Jon Butterworth ...
    An accessible account of the work leading up to the monumental discovery of the Higgs boson, from one of the physicists who was there.Particle physics as we know it depends on the Higgs boson: It's the missing link between the birth of our universe—as a sea of tiny, massless particles—and the tangible world we live in today. But for more than 50 years, scientists wondered: Does it exist?Physicist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body

    Electricity in the Human Body

    by Frances Ashcroft ...
    A lively exploration of the surprising role that electricity plays in our bodies.What happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie in the electrical signals constantly traveling through our bodies, driving our thoughts, our movements, and even the ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Enlightenment

    And Why It Still Matters

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSOne of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy

    by Olivia Manning ...
    Series series Fortunes of War
    One of Wall Street Journal’s “5 Best of World War II Fiction”A BBC miniseries starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth BranaghTHE WW2 FICTION CLASSIC: “A fantastically tart and readable” historical fiction novel about life and marriage in late 1930s Eastern Europe (Sarah Waters, bestselling author of Fingersmith)The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and comp... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD