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The New Cosmic Onion: Quarks and the Nature of the Universe by Frank Close
RRP: $82.32$71.72Not since Newton's apple has there been a physics phenomenon as deliciously appealing to the masses as Frank Close's Cosmic Onion. Widely embraced by scientists and laypersons alike, the book quickly became an international bestseller. Translated into... -
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb by David C. Cassidy
RRP: $30.86$30.43"A fascinating, well-documented biography." --New York Times Book Review "A monumental effort." --New York Review of Books "An excellent piece of science writing...Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency that... -
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance by Peter Hore
RRP: $56.59$53.60The renowned Oxford Chemistry Primers series, which provides focused introductions to a range of important topics in chemistry, has been refreshed and updated to suit the needs of today's students, lecturers, and postgraduate researchers. The rigorous,... -
Baby Loves Angular Momentum on Hanukkah! by Ruth Spiro
RRP: $13.71$9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623541903Author Ruth SpiroPage Count 20Imprint Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.Publisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. -
Day At Cern, A: Guided Tour Through The Heart Of Particle Physics by Gautier Depambour
RRP: $42.88$37.38'This brief book offers an interesting, fun, and widely accessible first-person tour of CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. The facilities at CERN include the Large Hadron Collider (LHC),... -
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States by Alex Wellerstein
RRP: $53.17$41.06The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered... -
The Nature of the Atom: An Introduction to the Structured Atom Model by Edo Kaal
RRP: $51.37$32.23Apologies 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 -
Particle Physics by Brian R. Martin
RRP: $82.25$73.38An accessible and carefully structured introduction to Particle Physics, including important coverage of the Higgs Boson and recent progress in neutrino physics. Fourth edition of this successful title in the Manchester Physics seriesIncludes information... -
What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner by Dan Levitt
RRP: $42.88$28.87For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building... -
Churchill's Bomb: A hidden history of Britain's first nuclear weapons programme by Graham Farmelo
RRP: $25.71$16.81Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of... -
Higgs: The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle' by Jim Baggott
RRP: $18.85$13.33The hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. So exactly what is this particle? Why does it matter so much? What does it tell us about the Universe? Did the discovery announced on 4 July 2012 finish the search?... -
Radioactivity: A Very Short Introduction by Claudio Tuniz 9780199692422
RRP: $15.42$11.06You cannot hide from radioactivity. Even the book you are holding is slightly radioactive, but there are more serious risks. Radioactivity - the breakdown of unstable atomic nuclei, releasing radiation - is a fundamental process in nature. It is a... -
Nuclear Fusion: The Race to Build a Mini-Sun on Earth by Sharon Ann Holgate
RRP: $17.14$11.49'Holgate guides us expertly and with a deft touch along the journey towards the holy grail of unlimited energy for all.' - JIM AL-KHALILI'What is nuclear fusion? In clear and accessible language, this book explains the basics and the hope for the future... -
The Strategy of the Genes by C. H. Waddington 9781138998131
RRP: $78.89$68.83First published in 1957, this essential classic work bridged the gap between analytical and theoretical biology, thus setting the insights of the former in a context which more sensitively reflects the ambiguities surrounding many of its core concepts... -
Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand
RRP: $22.28$14.68The green movement used to protect the earth from mankind; now they need to protect mankind from the earth. In Whole Earth Discipline, Stewart Brand argues that in order to do this, they urgently need to abandon much conventional environmental wisdom,... -
Meltdown: Stories of nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical by Joel Levy
RRP: $15.42$10.63Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy. Combining human tragedy with intriguing science, each account reveals new aspects of humanity's complex... -
Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications by John Lilley 9780471979364
RRP: $70.24$62.25This title provides the latest information on nuclear physics. Based on a course entitled Applications of Nuclear Physics. Written from an experimental point of view this text is broadly divided into two parts, firstly a general introduction to Nuclear... -
Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World by Tobias Hürter 9781891011177
RRP: $32.50$21.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Science/Technology) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781891011177Author Tobias H rterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint... -
A Map of the Invisible: Journeys into Particle Physics by Jonathan Butterworth
RRP: $18.85$13.33A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'A magnificent, compelling and insightful voyage to the frontier of knowledge from a great writer with a deep understanding.' Brian CoxWhat is the universe really made of? How do we know? Follow the map of the invisible to... -
The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings by Martin Gardner 9780486442440
RRP: $29.14$19.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486442440Author Martin GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Elementary Theory of Angular Momentum by M. E. Rose 9780486684802
RRP: $26.57$22.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486684802Author David G MoursundFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness by NHK TV
RRP: $22.28$12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942993544Author NHK TV CrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vertical, Inc.Publisher Vertical, Inc.Weight(grams) 203g -
Marie Curie: The Pioneer, The Nobel Laureate by Richard Gunderman
RRP: $34.31$23.59Marie Curie coined the term 'radioactivity', and it is to her and her husband, Pierre Curie, that we owe much of our current understanding of the very fabric of reality. Born in Warsaw, Marie was the fifth and youngest child of teachers. Her father... -
Present at the Creation: Discovering the Higgs Boson by Amir D. Aczel 9780307591821
RRP: $25.71$20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307591821Author Amir D. AczelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Modern Elementary Particle Physics: Explaining and Extending the Standard Model by Gordon Kane
RRP: $89.18$78.66This book is written for students and scientists wanting to learn about the Standard Model of particle physics. Only an introductory course knowledge about quantum theory is needed. The text provides a pedagogical description of the theory, and... -
Introduction to Effective Field Theory: Thinking Effectively about Hierarchies of Scale by C. P. Burgess
RRP: $123.48$114.36Using examples from across the sub-disciplines of physics, this introduction shows why effective field theories are the language in which physical laws are written. The tools of effective field theory are demonstrated using worked examples from areas... -
Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World by Abraham Pais
$82.63The history of physics since the discovery of X-rays would be too simplistic a description of this book. Certainly it covers the historical period from the late nineteenth century to the present day, but the book attempts to relate not only what has... -
Muon Spectroscopy: An Introduction by Stephen J. Blundell 9780198858959
RRP: $121.79$110.88Muons, radioactive particles produced in accelerators, have emerged as an important tool to study problems in condensed matter physics and chemistry. Beams of muons with all their spins polarized can be used to investigate a variety of static and dynamic... -
Hadrons at Finite Temperature by Samirnath Mallik
RRP: $214.41$171.72High energy laboratories are performing experiments in heavy ion collisions to explore the structure of matter at high temperature and density. This elementary book explains the basic ideas involved in the theoretical analysis of these experimental data... -
Building The H Bomb: A Personal History by Kenneth W. Ford 9789814618793
RRP: $34.31$30.22In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb. He worked with - and relaxed with - scientific giants of that time such as Edward... -
Who Cares about Particle Physics?: Making Sense of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN by Pauline Gagnon 9780198826279
RRP: $34.29$29.38CERN, the European Laboratory for particle physics, regularly makes the news. What kind of research happens at this international laboratory and how does it impact people's daily lives? Why is the discovery of the Higgs boson so important? Particle... -
The Atom: A Visual Tour by Jack Challoner 9780262037365
RRP: $68.53$45.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262037365Author Jack ChallonerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 865gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 216mm * 18mm -
Quantum Field Theory: The Why, What and How by Thanu Padmanabhan 9783319281711
RRP: $94.32$86.38This book describes, in clear terms, the Why, What and the How of Quantum Field Theory. The raison d'etre of QFT is explained by starting from the dynamics of a relativistic particle and demonstrating how it leads to the notion of quantum fields... -
Principles of Quantum Mechanics by R. Shankar 9780306447907
RRP: $128.63$122.75R. Shankar has introduced major additions and updated key presentations in this second edition of Principles of Quantum Mechanics. New features of this innovative text include an entirely rewritten mathematical introduction, a discussion of Time-reversal... -
The Ideas of Particle Physics by James E. Dodd
RRP: $66.88$57.98This book is a comprehensive introduction to particle physics, bridging the gap between traditional textbooks on the subject and popular accounts that assume little background knowledge. This fourth edition is fully revised, including the most recent... -
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime
RRP: $53.17$41.08Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became... -
Statistical Methods in Quantum Optics 1: Master Equations and Fokker-Planck Equations by Howard J. Carmichael 9783642081330
RRP: $94.32$93.88As a graduate student working in quantum optics I encountered the question that might be taken as the theme of this book. The question definitely arose at that time though it was not yet very clearly defined; there was simply some deep irritation caused... -
Black Hole Physics: From Collapse to Evaporation by Daniel Grumiller
RRP: $128.63$116.18This textbook gradually introduces the reader to several topics related to black hole physics with a didactic approach. It starts with the most basic black hole solution, the Schwarzschild metric, and discusses the basic classical properties of black... -
Introduction to Nuclear Science by Jeff C. Bryan 9781032301808
RRP: $132.06$115.01Written to provide students who have limited backgrounds in the physical sciences and math with an accessible textbook on nuclear chemistry and physics, Introduction to Nuclear Science, Fourth Edition continues to provide a clear and complete... -
Introduction to High Energy Physics by Donald H. Perkins
RRP: $121.77$106.49This highly-regarded text provides a comprehensive introduction to modern particle physics. Extensively rewritten and updated, this 4th edition includes developments in elementary particle physics, as well as its connections with cosmology and...