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Commonwealth Fund Book Program eBook Series

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  • 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

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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

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  • 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

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  • 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

  • The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior

    The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia—three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when they did would significantly alter each man’s perceptions—and the course of Western history.In 1502, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays

    and Other Essays

    by Albert Einstein ...
    E=mc2: It may be Einstein’s most well-known contribution to modern science, but how many people understand the thought process or physics behind this famous equation?In this collection of his seven most important essays on physics, Einstein guides his reader step-by-step through the many layers of scientific theory that formed a starting point for his discoveries. By both supporting and refuting ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best Science Fiction of the Year

    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 latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD