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The Craft of Scientific Writing is designed to help scientists and engineers - both professionals already active in the disciplines as well as students preparing to enter the professions - write about their work clearly and effectively. Written for use...

A Top 25 CHOICE 2016 Title, and recipient of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) Award. How much energy is released in ATP hydrolysis? How many mRNAs are in a cell? How genetically similar are two random people? What is faster, transcription or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593086377Author Randall MunroeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as...

Written between 1940 and the late 1970s, the postwar recollections of renowned physicist Freeman Dyson have been celebrated as an historic portrait of modern science and its greatest players, including Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Stephen...

The Physics GRE plays a significant role in deciding admissions to nearly all US physics Ph.D. programs, yet few exam-prep books focus on the test's actual content and unique structure. Recognized as one of the best student resources available, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940380179Author Thomas a MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint University Science BooksPublisher University Science Books

"In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."-Albert Einstein The year was 1915, and the young...

This first-year, graduate-level text and reference book covers the fundamental concepts and twenty-first-century applications of six major areas of classical physics that every masters- or PhD-level physicist should be exposed to, but often isn't:...

This captivating book presents a new, unified picture of the everyday world around us. It provides rational, scientific support for the idea that there may well be more to our reality than meets the eye...Accessible and engaging for readers with no prior...

What can we never do? Barrow looks at what limits there might be to human discovery, and what we might find, ultimately, to be unknowable, undoable, or unthinkable. Science is a big success story, but where will it end? And, indeed, will it end? Weaving...

This book provides a comprehensive study of the symmetry and geometry of crystals and molecules, starting from first principles. The pre-knowledge assumed is mathematics and physical science to about A-level; additional mathematical topics are discussed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486409269Author Hans ReichenbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

2022 marks the 45th anniversary of the Voyager probe launches. Launched into space in 1977, these twin probes explored the farthest reaches of the Solar System before venturing on a one-way journey beyond, all the while testing the bounds of science,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060531096Author Lisa RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972509473Author Thomas CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 840Imprint Lightning Strike BooksPublisher Lightning Strike BooksWeight(grams)...

Never before translated into English, the Manimekhalai is one of the great classics of Indian culture.About the AuthorHans C. Ohanian received his B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he worked...

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2013If you ever regretted not taking physics in college,or simply want to know how to think like a physicist,this is the book for you. In this bestselling introduction, physicist Leonard Susskind and hacker-scientist...

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics brings together cutting-edge writing by more than twenty leading authorities on the history of physics from the seventeenth century to the present day. By presenting a wide diversity of studies in a single...

A self-educated man who knew no mathematics, Michael Faraday rose from errand boy to become one of Britain's greatest scientists. Faraday made the discoveries upon which most of twentieth-century technology is based and readers of this book will enjoy...

The aim of this book is to teach undergraduate college or university students the basic physics concepts needed to understand the mathematics which describes the evolution of the universe, and based on this to teach the astrophysical theories behind...

From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction could soon become science fact. Albert Einstein said, 'If...

From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction could soon become science fact. Albert Einstein said, 'If...

Originally published in 1993, this book of essays is a largely nonmathematical account of some of the strange behaviour, both classical and quantum, exhibited by moving particles, fluids and waves. Drawn from the author's researches in quantum mechanics,...

Now in paperback, this book provides an overview of the physics of condensed matter systems. Assuming a familiarity with the basics of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, the book establishes a general framework for describing condensed phases...

'A careful and thoughtful provocation' (Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury) Ambitiously placed at the intersection of scientific insights and spiritual wisdom, Human Flourishing prompts us to reflect on what constitutes a good life and the...

The black box is orange-and there are actually two of them. They house the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, instruments vital to airplane crash analyses. But accident investigators cannot rely on the black boxes alone. Beginning with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971916227Author Christopher Michael LanganFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Mega Foundation PressPublisher Mega Foundation PressWeight(grams)...

Gaining notoriety as the science behind the controversial experiments of the Large Hadron Collider, particle physics explores our most fundamental and mind-blowing problems: How did the Universe start? What are we made of? How small is the smallest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079964Author David LindleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

QUANTUM MECHANICS From classical analytical mechanics to quantum mechanics, simulation, foundations & engineering Quantum mechanics is a fundamental and conceptually challenging area of physics. It is usually assumed that students are unfamiliar with...

Over the past twenty years our understanding of polymer solutions has undergone a dramatic evolution. New methods and concepts have extended the frontier of the theory from dilute solutions in which polymers move independently of each other, to...

A superlative, fascinating graphic account of Albert Einstein's strange world and how his legacy has been built upon since. It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionise our view of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119590583Author Kenneth S. KraneFormat PaperbackImprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons IncWeight(grams) 1008g

In The Science of God, distinguished physicist and biblical scholar Gerald Schroeder demonstrates the often surprising parallels between a variety of biblical teachings and the findings of biochemists, palaeontologists, astrophysicists, and quantum...

The Top Ten Bestseller Black holes. DNA. The Large Hadron Collider. Ever had that sneaking feeling that you are missing out on some truly spectacular science? You do? Well, fear not, for help is at hand. Ben Miller was working on his Physics PhD at...

Superconductors capture the imagination with seemingly magical properties that allow them to carry electricity without losing any energy at all. They are however, extraordinarily difficult materials to work with. In this book, Susannah Speller explores...

The goal of this book is to present a unified mathematical treatment of diverse problems in mathematics, physics, computer science, and engineer ing using geometric algebra. Geometric algebra was invented by William Kingdon Clifford in 1878 as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486432618Author B. RothFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 850gDimensions(mm)...

Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of...