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  • From Heat to Thermal Science

    A History of Thermodynamics

    de Gary D. Patterson ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book explores the human understanding of heat, from early cultural perceptions to the scientific developments that shaped thermal science. Beginning with historical musings on heat, it traces the evolution of scientific thought from 16th-century Italy to the quantum understanding of heat in the 20th century. The book examines how humans have perceived, measured, and produced heat, leading to ... Leer más

    $197.99 USD

  • Paul John Flory

    A Life of Science and Friends

    de Gary D. Patterson, James E. Mark, Joel Fried, Do Yoon ...
    Paul John Flory: A Life of Science and Friends is the first full-length treatment of the life and work of Paul John Flory, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1974. It presents a chronological progression of his scientific, professional, and personal achievements as recounted and written by his former students and colleagues.This book cove ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

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  • The 4% Universe

    Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality

    de Richard Panek ...
    The epic, behind-the-scenes story of an astounding gap in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos.In the past few years, a handful of scientists have been in a race to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only 4 percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every planet, star, and galaxy. The rest—96 percent of the universe—is completely unknown.Richard Panek ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Brilliant Blunders

    From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

    de Mario Livio ...
    Drawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery.Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein all made groundbreaking contributions to their fields—but each also stumbled badly. Darwin’s theory of ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Einstein's Unfinished Symphony

    The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy

    de Marcia Bartusiak ...
    This updated edition of the New York Times Notable Book recounts the long hunt for Einstein's predicted gravitational waves—and celebrates their discovery.In February 2016, astronomers announced that they had verified the last remaining prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity—vibrations in space-time, called gravitational waves. Humanity can now tune in to a cosmic orchestra. We ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • General Relativity 4: Astrophysics & Cosmology

    Advanced Topics

    de Robert Piccioni ...
    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    All of modern astrophysics and cosmology stands on the foundation of General Relativity that is best expressed in tensors. This book, and its prequel General Relativity 3, present the clearest, most comprehensible, and most complete introduction to the tensor calculus of differential topology, which Einstein used to explain the cosmos. Derivations that are difficult to find elsewhere, are all ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

  • Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

    de Janna Levin ...
    The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe.Black holes are dark. That is their essence. When black holes collide, they will ... Leer más

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  • In Search of the Multiverse

    Parallel Worlds, Hidden Dimensions, and the Ultimate Quest for the Frontiers of Reality

    de John Gribbin ...
    Critical acclaim for John Gribbin"The master of popular science."—Sunday Times (London)"Gribbin explains things very well indeed, and there's not an equation in sight."—David Goodstein, The New York Times Book Review (on Almost Everyone's Guide to Science)"Gribbin breathes life into the core ideas of complexity science, and argues convincingly that the basic laws, even in biology, wil... ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Periodic Table:Its Story and Its Significance

    Its Story and Its Significance

    de Eric R. Scerri ...
    The periodic table is one of the most potent icons in science. It lies at the core of chemistry and embodies the most fundamental principles of the field. The one definitive text on the development of the periodic table by van Spronsen (1969), has been out of print for a considerable time. The present book provides a successor to van Spronsen, but goes further in giving an evaluation of the extent ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

    The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

    de Richard P. Feynman ...
    An insightful look into the brilliant mind of physicist Richard Feynman.One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics secured his reputation amongst students and seekers around the world. It was his outsized love for life, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Mass

    The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields

    de Jim Baggott ...
    Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps', and ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD