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  • Quantum Legacies

    Dispatches from an Uncertain World

    de David Kaiser ...
    "Engrossing . . . Leave[s] us with a richer picture of physics as a lived activity." — Los Angeles Review of BooksIn Quantum Legacies, David Kaiser introduces readers to iconic episodes in physicists' still-unfolding quest to understand space, time, and matter at their most fundamental. In a series of vibrant essays, Kaiser takes us inside moments of discovery and debate among the great minds of ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Come gli hippie hanno salvato la fisica

    Traducido por Simone Buttazzi, Fabio Cremonesi, Alberto Frigo ...
    de David Kaiser ...
    La teoria dei quanti rappresenta, ancora oggi, uno dei più eccitanti orizzonti della fisica. Eppure, in pochi conoscono il grande contributo che a questa disciplina hanno dato gli eccessi del movimento New Age degli anni Settanta. Molte delle idee che sono alla base della fisica dei quanti ebbero origine dalla frenetica controcultura di quegli anni, da un fecondo miscuglio di bong, viaggi con Lsd, ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

    Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

    de David Kaiser ...
    “Meticulously researched and unapologetically romantic, How the Hippies Saved Physics makes the history of science fun again.”—ScienceIn the 1970s, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley, California, banded together to explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the “Fundamental Fysiks Group,” they pursued an audacious, speculative approach to physics, studying quantum ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Quantum Strangeness

    Wrestling with Bell's Theorem and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

    de George S. Greenstein ...
    A physicist's efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics."One of the finest books I have read on quantum mechanics: lucid and careful, but also entertaining, honest, and generous."—Phillip Ball, author of Beyond WeirdAstrophysicist George Greenstein has been both fascinated and confused by quantum mechanics for his entire career. In this book, he describes, engagingly and ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • From Quills to Tweets

    How America Communicates about War and Revolution

    de Andrea J. Dew, Marc A. Genest, S. C. M. Paine, Troy Bickham, Martin J. Manning, Michelle Getchell, David Silbey, J. Lee Thompson0, Bruce A. Elleman1, Mike Carew2, Steven Casey3, David Kaiser4, Judith Baroody5, Thomas H. Johnson6, Matthew C. DuPée7, Haroro Ingram8, Craig Whiteside9 ...
    While today's presidential tweets may seem a light-year apart from the scratch of quill pens during the era of the American Revolution, the importance of political communication is eternal. This book explores the roles that political narratives, media coverage, and evolving communication technologies have played in precipitating, shaping, and concluding or prolonging wars and revolutions over the ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Groovy Science

    Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture

    Edición de David Kaiser, W. Patrick McCray ...
    Did the Woodstock generation reject science—or re-create it? An "enthralling" study of a unique period in scientific history ( New Scientist).Our general image of the youth of the late 1960s and early 1970s is one of hostility to things like missiles and mainframes and plastics—and an enthusiasm for alternative spirituality and getting "back to nature." But this enlightening collection reveals ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • No End Save Victory

    How FDR Led the Nation into War

    de David Kaiser ...
    While Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first hundred days may be the most celebrated period of his presidency, the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor proved the most critical. Beginning as early as 1939 when Germany first attacked Poland, Roosevelt skillfully navigated a host of challenges -- a reluctant population, an unprepared military, and disagreements within his cabinet -- to prepare the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • States of the Union

    de David Kaiser ...
    States of the Union uses State of the Union addresses and other presidential addresses to tell the story of the political history of the United States from Washington's inauguration in 1789 through 2023. The addresses provide a remarkable record of how the country saw itself, what problems required solutions--both at home and in the larger world--what solutions presidents proposed, and what was ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • THE SUB PRIME NINJA

    de David Kaiser ...
    Ed’s entire career had been focused on products of value which didn’t change regardless who produced it and the quality would remain the same regardless whether grown or mined. He was well aware of the effects of supply and demand on commodities and now the door was wide open to apply his experience as an investor in real estate.  ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Lectures Of Sidney Coleman On Quantum Field Theory: Foreword By David Kaiser

    de David Derbes, Yuan-sen Ting, Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Richard Sohn, David Griffiths, Brian Hill, David Kaiser ...
    'Sidney Coleman was the master teacher of quantum field theory. All of us who knew him became his students and disciples. Sidney’s legendary course remains fresh and bracing, because he chose his topics with a sure feel for the essential, and treated them with elegant economy.'Frank WilczekNobel Laureate in Physics 2004Sidney Coleman was a physicist's physicist. He is largely unknown outside of ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • "Well, Doc, You're In"

    Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe

    Edición de David Kaiser ...
    The life and work of Freeman Dyson—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—and his particular way of thinking about deep questions.Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—helped invent modern physics. Not bound by disciplinary divisions, he went on to explore foundational topics in mathematics, astrophysics, and the origin of life. General readers were ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Science and the American Century

    Readings from "Isis"

    Edición de Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, David Kaiser ...
    The twentieth century was one of astonishing change in science, especially as pursued in the United States. Against a backdrop of dramatic political and economic shifts brought by world wars, intermittent depressions, sporadic and occasionally massive increases in funding, and expanding private patronage, this scientific work fundamentally reshaped everyday life. Science and the American Century ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD