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Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima by James Mahaffey 9781605986807
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents,... -
Introduction to Elementary Particles by David Griffiths
RRP: €84.00Booksplease Price: €62.44In the second, revised edition of a well-established textbook, the author strikes a balance between quantitative rigor and intuitive understanding, using a lively, informal style. The first chapter... -
Nuclear Physics: A Very Short Introduction by Frank Close
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.70Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the 19th century, which implied the existence of a positive... -
A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness by NHK TV
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942993544Author NHK TV CrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Radioactivity: A Very Short Introduction by Claudio Tuniz 9780199692422
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.82You 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... -
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 9781451677614
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €21.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451677614Author Richard RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint -
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham 9781501134630
RRP: €26.39Booksplease Price: €17.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (Nonfiction) 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781501134630Author Adam Hig -
Chain Reactions: A Hopeful History of Uranium by Lucy Jane Santos 9781837731565
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.26Tracing uranium's past, and how it intersects with our understanding of other radioactive elements, this book aims to disentangle our attitudes and to unpick the atomic mindset.Chain Reactions looks... -
Nuclear Fusion: The Race to Build a Mini-Sun on Earth by Sharon Ann Holgate
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77'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,... -
The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet Arthur Turrell 9781474611602
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.62Is it possible to build a star on earth?When asked what problem he hoped scientists will have solved by the end of the century, Professor Stephen Hawking replied 'I would like nuclear fusion to... -
How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor by Colin Tucker 9783030338756
RRP: €29.99Booksplease Price: €23.99Have you ever wondered how a nuclear power station works? This lively book will answer that question. It'll take you on a journey from the science behind nuclear reactors, through their start-up,... -
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy 9780141997179
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY SUNDAY TIMES AND HISTORY TODAY'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and... -
Quantum Mechanics (A Ladybird Expert Book) by Jim Al-Khalili
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.22What 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... -
Higgs: The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle' by Jim Baggott 9780199679577
RRP: €14.99Booksplease Price: €11.74The 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... -
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the... -
Black Sun by Owen Matthews
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.59'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES 'A stunning debut thriller . . . utterly terrifying . . . absolutely riveting' DAILY MAIL 'Fascinating . . . fearsome' FREDERICK FORSYTH'Enthralling' FINANCIAL... -
Introducing Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide Tom Whyntie 9781848315891
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.00What really happens at the most fundamental levels of nature?Introducing Particle Physics explores the very frontiers of our knowledge, even showing how particle physicists are now using theory and... -
A Map of the Invisible: Journeys into Particle Physics by Jonathan Butterworth
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €8.14A 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... -
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Neutrino by Frank Close 9780199695997 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €2.40What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they? Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed in certain radioactive decays, they pass through most... -
Neutrino by Frank Close 9780199695997
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.24What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they? Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed in certain radioactive decays, they pass through most... -
The Quantum World: The disturbing theory at the heart of reality by Scientist New
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11Forget everything you thought you knew about reality.The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are... -
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08'Remarkable . . . grips with the force of a thriller' Robert Macfarlane'The most brilliant and essential book on Chernobyl since that of Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich' Irish Times** National... -
Matter: A Very Short Introduction by Geoff Cottrell
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28What is matter? Matter is the stuff from which we and all the things in the world are made. Everything around us, from desks, to books, to our own bodies are made of atoms, which are small enough... -
Meltdown: Stories of nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical by Joel Levy
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14Meltdown 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,... -
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age by Steve Olson
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.70It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponise the atom, the United States marshalled brilliant minds and... -
Radioactive Boy Scout, the by Ken Silverstein
RRP: €25.20Booksplease Price: €16.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Young Adult) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780812966602Author -
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists by Robert Jungk 9780156141505
RRP: €26.39Booksplease Price: €19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156141505Author Robert JungFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World by Tobias Hürter 9781891011177
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.66Apologies 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... -
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
Booksplease Price: €30.26Now with a new preface (not in any other edition) that will review the enormous public reception of the relatively obscure string theory-made possible by this book and an increased number of... -
The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of Nuclear Fixer by Alvin M. Weinberg
RRP: €43.19Booksplease Price: €33.76Alvin Weinberg is one of the most influential nuclear engineers & physicists in the U.S., having participated in many high profile projects from the early days of nuclear research on into the 1980s... -
Trinity: a Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
Booksplease Price: €15.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809093557Author Jonathan Fetter-VormFormat PaperbackImprint -
Elementary Nuclear Theory by Hans Albrecht Bethe 9780486450483
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The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World by Sean Carroll 9780142180303
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The Interactions of Beta Particles with Matter. The Mass Attention Coefficient and Particles Producing Bremsstrahlung by Farheen Banu Dawadi Et Al 9783668081031
RRP: €42.60Booksplease Price: €18.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Stellar Evolution, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Nucleogenesis by Cameron 9780486498553
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Why Balloons Rise and Apples Fall: The Laws That Make the World Work by Jeff Stewart 9781782437574 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €2.34'Everything we do is touched by physics. Whether we're on the motorway, at the beach or in the pub, its laws tell us what happens in our world and why.'From the big stuff (life, the universe and... -
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High-pT Physics in the Heavy Ion Era by Jan Rak 9780521190299 [USED COPY]
RRP: €103.20Booksplease Price: €4.18Aimed at graduate students and researchers in the field of high-energy nuclear physics, this book provides an overview of the basic concepts of large transverse momentum particle physics, with a... -
Volatile State: Iran in the Nuclear Age by David Oualaalou
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.27In an age of nuclear experimentation, military conflicts, and ISIS, the Middle East is unstable, and the Iranian nuclear deal is shrouded in controversy and mistrust. How will this agreement impact... -
Nuclear Experiments Using A Geiger Counter by John Iovine 9781623850081
RRP: €21.54Booksplease Price: €16.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623850081Author John IovineFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint