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Introductory Quantum Optics by Christopher C. Gerry 9781009415293
RRP: £49.99£44.75This established textbook provides an accessible but comprehensive introduction to the quantum nature of light and its interaction with matter. The field of quantum optics is covered with clarity and depth, from the underlying theoretical framework of... -
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
RRP: £12.99£9.09The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies.'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.'... -
The Making Of The Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 9781471111235
RRP: £16.99£12.08WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few... -
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird 9780375412028
£32.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards and Pulitzer Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780375412028Author Kai BirdFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House USA... -
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime Sean Carroll 9781786078360
RRP: £10.99£7.00Quantum physics is not mystifying. The implications are mind-bending, and not yet fully understood, but this revolutionary theory is truly illuminating. It stands as the best explanation of the fundamental nature of our world. 'An authoritative and... -
Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space Lisa Randall 9781847922571
RRP: £13.99£9.75On July 4th, 2012, one of physics' most exhilarating results was announced: a new particle - and very likely a new kind of particle - had been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, the huge particle accelerator designed to reproduce energies present... -
The Particle Zoo: The Search for the Fundamental Nature of Reality Gavin Hesketh 9781784298708
RRP: £12.99£8.60What is everything really made of? If we split matter down into smaller and infinitesimally smaller pieces, where do we arrive? At the Particle Zoo - the extraordinary subatomic world of antimatter, ghostly neutrinos, strange-flavoured quarks and... -
Quantum Physics in Minutes Gemma Lavender 9781786481214
RRP: £12.99£8.60The fastest way to understanding quantum physics - learn about how our universe works, in minutes. Quantum physics is the most fundamental, but also the most bewildering, of sciences. Allowing for simultaneously dead-and-alive cats,... -
Atomic Physics by C.J. Foot
RRP: £42.99£40.80This text is primarily intended to accompany an advanced undergraduate course in atomic physics. However, the elementary atomic physics covered in the early chapters should be accessible to undergraduates when they are first introduced to the subject... -
Smashing Physics Jon Butterworth 9781472210333
RRP: £9.99£6.80The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the... -
The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true by Richard Dawkins 9780593066126
RRP: £30.00£21.95What are things made of?What is the sun?Why is there night and day, winter and summer?Why do bad things happen?Are we alone?Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to answer profound questions such as these. Have you heard the... -
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll 9781786076335
RRP: £20.00£15.44Quantum physics is not mystifying. The implications are mind-bending, and not yet fully understood, but this revolutionary theory is truly illuminating. It stands as the best explanation of the fundamental nature of our world. 'An authoritative and... -
Quantum Mechanics (A Ladybird Expert Book) by Jim Al-Khalili
RRP: £7.99£5.79What is quantum mechanics? Learn from the experts in the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIESA clear, simple and entertaining introduction to the weird, mind-bending world of the very, very small.Written by physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili,... -
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close 9780141997582
RRP: £12.99£9.09The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of itIn the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the... -
Physics II For Dummies by Steven Holzner 9780470538067
RRP: £21.99£14.96A plain-English guide to advanced physics Does just thinking about the laws of motion make your head spin? Does studying electricity short your circuits? Physics II For Dummies walks you through the essentials and gives you easy-to-understand and... -
A Student's Guide to Atomic Physics by Mark Fox
RRP: £19.99£17.13This concise and accessible book provides a detailed introduction to the fundamental principles of atomic physics at an undergraduate level. Concepts are explained in an intuitive way and the book assumes only a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and... -
The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World by Sean Carroll
RRP: £11.99£8.43Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books A Best Science Book of the Year for the Guardian, Financial Times, and New Scientist It was the universe's most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to... -
AQA A-level Physics Workbook 1 by Jeremy Pollard
£9.59Support students through the AQA A-level Physics specification with this write-in workbook, providing extra guidance, practice and scaffolding to reinforce understanding and improve key skills.-Develop and consolidate understanding using the practice... -
Reactions: An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe by Theodore Gray
RRP: £15.99£15.93The third book in Theodore Gray's bestselling Elements Trilogy, Reactions continues the journey through the world of chemistry that began with his two previous bestselling books The Elements and Molecules.With The Elements, Gray gave us a... -
Molecules: A Very Short Introduction by Philip Ball
RRP: £8.99£6.45The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete. In this Very Short Introduction, Philip Ball explores the role of the molecule in and around us - how, for... -
The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Nick Mann 9781579128142
RRP: £25.00£19.81With more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, The Elements is the most entertaining, comprehensive, and visually arresting book on all 118 elements in the periodic table.Includes a poster of Theodore Gray's iconic photographic periodic table of the... -
Nuclear Radiation Interactions by Sidney Yip
RRP: £48.00£42.45This book is a treatment on the foundational knowledge of Nuclear Science and Engineering. It is an outgrowth of a first-year graduate-level course which the author has taught over the years in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT... -
Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table by Kit Chapman
RRP: £10.99£7.77SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 AAAS/SUBARU SB&F PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE BOOKS How new elements are discovered, why they matter and where they will take us. Creating an element is no easy feat. It's the equivalent of firing six trillion bullets a... -
Mr Tompkins in Paperback by George Gamow
RRP: £13.99£11.42Since his first appearance over sixty years ago, Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many thousands of readers as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams and adventures lead him into a world inside the atom. George Gamow's classic provides a... -
Quantum Physics: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Michael Raymer
RRP: £10.99£7.77Around 1900, physicists started to discover particles like electrons, protons, and neutrons, and with these discoveries they believed they could predict the internal behavior of the atom. However, once their predictions were compared to the results of... -
AQA A-level Physics Workbook 2 by Jeremy Pollard
£9.98Support students through the AQA A-level Physics specification with this write-in workbook, providing extra guidance, practice and scaffolding to reinforce understanding and improve key skills.-Develop and consolidate understanding using the practice... -
Fundamental: How quantum and particle physics explain absolutely everything (except gravity) Tim James 9781472143488
RRP: £14.99£9.80Fundamental does for physics what Tim's first book, Elemental, does for chemistry: it demystifies the topic in his trademark humorous, engaging style, including the most recent developments in the field.At the start of the twentieth century, science... -
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III: The New Millennium Edition: Quantum Mechanics by Richard P. Feynman
£37.76"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning publications that have remained definitive and introductory... -
Why the Universe Exists by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99£7.40As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons.If the recent discovery of the Higgs... -
Exploring Quantum Mechanics: A Collection of 700+ Solved Problems for Students, Lecturers, and Researchers by Victor Galitski
£70.82A series of seminal technological revolutions has led to a new generation of electronic devices miniaturized to such tiny scales where the strange laws of quantum physics come into play. There is no doubt that, unlike scientists and engineers of the... -
Quantum Optics: An Introduction by Mark Fox
RRP: £38.99£37.14Most previous texts on quantum optics have been written primarily for the graduate student market at PhD level and above. Quantum optics: an introduction aims to introduce a wide range of topics at a lower level suitable for advanced undergraduate and... -
Reactions: An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe by Theodore Gray 9780316391221
RRP: £25.00£19.82With Reactions bestselling author Theodore Gray continues the journey through our molecular and chemical world that began with the tour de force The Elements and continued with Molecules. In The Elements, Gray gave us a never-before-seen, mesmerizing... -
Why Things Break by Mark Eberhart 9781400048830
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400048830Author Mark EberhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Beyond Einstein: Superstrings and the Quest for the Final Theory by Michio Kaku 9780192861962
RRP: £26.49£22.37What is superstring theory and why is it important? Can superstrings offer the fulfilment of Einstein's lifelong dream of a Theory of Everything? Co-authored by Michio Kaku, one of the leading pioneers of superstrings, this is a thrilling account of the... -
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat by Richard P. Feynman
£45.16The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning publications that have remained definitive and introductory to... -
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
£49.58"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning publications that have remained definitive and introductory... -
Programming The Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos by Seth Lloyd 9780099455370
RRP: £15.99£11.61IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE BIT...The universe is made of bits of information and it has been known for more than a century that every piece of the the universe - every electron, atom and molecule - registers these bits and that information. It is only in... -
Nanotechnology VSI by Philip Moriarty
RRP: £8.99£6.45What is Nanotechnology and how will it affect us? Nanobots, nanoprobes, nanoswarms, nanogenes the list goes on. Nanotechnology is a staple of science fiction and has a rather chequered history when it comes to public perception: will swarms of sentient... -
The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Nick Mann
£16.01With more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, The Elements is the most entertaining, comprehensive, and visually arresting book on all 118 elements in the periodic table.Includes a poster of Theodore Gray's iconic photographic periodic table of the... -
The Nature of the Atom: An Introduction to the Structured Atom Model by Edo Kaal
£33.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838128029Author Edo KaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Curtis PressPublisher Curtis PressWeight(grams) 440g