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Zombie Prom: Atomic Edition by John Dempsey 9780573702297
Booksplease Price: £16.91This girl-loves-ghoul rock and roll Off Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen... -
Fission, Fusion And Spies: A Life In Theoretical Physics by Roscoe B White 9789819805884
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76This book relates the life, education and experiences of a Minnesotan who fell in love with physics early in life, went to Princeton and was educated by former students of Enrico Fermi and others who... -
Ethan And The Future Of Energy by Jong-hyun Lee 9789811253942
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Every book in the Future Of ... collection contains a fun story, a field trip, and a focus on a famous person. In this book, Ethan discovers solar energy. He visits Uncle Roy at a wind farm and... -
Ethan And The Future Of Energy by Jong-hyun Lee 9789811253959
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74Every book in the Future Of ... collection contains a fun story, a field trip, and a focus on a famous person. In this book, Ethan discovers solar energy. He visits Uncle Roy at a wind farm and... -
Majorana Case, The: Letters, Documents, Testimonies by Erasmo Recami
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.50Ettore Majorana was born in the Sicilian city of Catania. He joined Enrico Fermi's 'Via Panisperna boys' at an early age and was part of the team who first discovered the slow neutrons (the research... -
The American Nuclear Power Industry: A Handbook by William A. Pearman 9780367231613
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Originally published in 1985. This book examines the scope of the industry and also focuses on issues relevant to it, divided into three sections: an overview of the American nuclear power industry,... -
American Scientists and Nuclear Weapons Policy by Robert Gilpin 9780691625430
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.96As this study traces the history of the dramatic intra-scientific conflict over nuclear weapons which has developed since World War II, it analyzes the politically relevant ideas, attitudes, and... -
The American Nuclear Power Industry: A Handbook by William A. Pearman
Booksplease Price: £108.12Originally published in 1985. This book examines the scope of the industry and also focuses on issues relevant to it, divided into three sections: an overview of the American nuclear power industry,... -
Zombie Prom by John Dempsey 9780573695797
Booksplease Price: £16.915m, 5f (with doubling) / Ints. This girl loves ghoul rock and roll Off Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal... -
Building The H Bomb: A Personal History by Kenneth W. Ford 9789814618793
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23In 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... -
What Is Real? by Giorgio Agamben 9781503606203
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most... -
What Is Real? by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most... -
Building The H Bomb: A Personal History Kenneth W Ford (Retired Director, American Inst Of Physics, Usa) 9789814632072
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.34In 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... -
Destroyer of Worlds: The deep history of the nuclear age: 1895-1965 by Frank Close 9780241700860
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Henry Becquerel’s accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate sparked a chain of discoveries which would unleash the atomic age.Destroyer of Worlds is the story... -
Measurements and Observations: Mathematical Methods Giovanni Mana 9783032117557
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book deals with measurements and understanding, evaluating, and reporting uncertainties. Its goal is to present fundamental concepts rather than delve into professional expertise. It does not... -
Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis. (AM-3), Volume 3 by Kurt Godel 9780691079271
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Kurt Godel, mathematician and logician, was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Godel fled Nazi Germany, fearing for his Jewish wife and fed up with Nazi interference in... -
Nobel Laureates of Los Alamos: The Manhattan Project Era by Rizwan Ali 9781648431630
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.65Established as a top-secret site for development of the atomic bomb as part of World War II's Manhattan Project, Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has, from its very beginnings, hosted... -
The Adventurous Life of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, Physicist (1903-1966) by Edoardo Amaldi 9783642328541
Booksplease Price: £46.28The physicist Friedrich Houtermans (1903-1966) was an essential promoter and proponent of the development of physics in Berne. He introduced a number of activities in the field of elementary... -
Proceedings Of The Conference In Honour Of The 90th Birthday Of Freeman Dyson by Leong Chuan Kwek 9789814590709
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £34.17Professor Freeman Dyson, a great physicist, thinker and futurist, has been very active in scientific, literary and public policy activities throughout his career. As a tribute to him on the occasion... -
Advanced Classical Electromagnetism by Robert Wald
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54A modern approach to classical electromagnetismElectromagnetism is one of the pillars of modern physics. Robert Wald provides graduate students with a clear, concise, and mathematically precise... -
The Manhattan Project and the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb: The Essential Reference Guide by Aaron Barlow 9781440859434
Booksplease Price: £86.73This invaluable resource offers students a comprehensive overview of the Manhattan Project and the decision to drop the atomic bomb, with more than 80 in-depth articles on a variety of topics and... -
Cosmical Magnetic Fields: Their Origin and their Activity by E. N. Parker
Booksplease Price: £74.58This well known and widely used landmark text explores the universal spontaneous generation of magnetic fields in astronomical bodies and the agitation of the bodies by those fields. The general... -
Science and the Economic Crisis: Impact on Science, Lessons from Science by Francesco Sylos Labini 9783319295275
Booksplease Price: £31.52This book not only explores the ways in which the economic crisis and associated austerity policies have adversely impacted the physical and human infrastructure and conduct of scientific research,... -
Pietro Blaserna and the Birth of the Institute of Physics in Rome: A Gentleman Scientist at Via Panisperna by Miriam Focaccia 9783030108243
Booksplease Price: £46.91This book draws upon a wealth of archival material to present the life and achievements of Pietro Blaserna, a "gentleman scientist" whose greatest legacy is considered to be the Institute of Physics... -
Marx: Key Concepts Riccardo Bellofiore 9781800880757
Booksplease Price: £112.11This scholarly book conducts an extensive exploration into the central ideas of Karl Marx, focussing on the key concepts that have defined his thought and legacy. Bringing together a wealth of... -
Life Beyond Earth: The Fermi Paradox - Or Why We Are Still Waiting to Meet Aliens Luigi Vacca 9783031816949
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.76This book analyzes the likelihood of intelligent civilizations from two different standpoints: firstly, using the famous Drake equation and, secondly, by analyzing some of the most popular hypotheses... -
International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety, Security, Safeguards and Non-proliferation: Proceedings of the XIX Edoardo Amaldi Conference, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, March 30-31, 2015 by Luciano Maiani 9783319370941
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book, comprising contributions presented at the XIX Edoardo Amaldi Conference, examines important aspects of international cooperation aimed at enhancing nuclear safety, security, safeguards... -
Integrated Optics: Modeling, material platforms and fabrication techniques: Volume 1 by Giancarlo C. Righini 9781839533419
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £106.93Edited by two recognised experts, this book in two volumes provides a comprehensive overview of integrated optics, from modelling to fabrication, materials to integration platforms, and... -
Integrated Optics: Characterization, devices, and applications: Volume 2 by Giancarlo C. Righini 9781839533433
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £106.93Edited by two recognised experts, this book in two volumes provides a comprehensive overview of integrated optics, from modelling to fabrication, materials to integration platforms, and... -
The Trilobite Book: A Visual Journey by Riccardo Levi-Setti
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.60Distant relatives of modern lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and spiders, trilobites swam the planet's prehistoric seas for 300 million years, from the Lower Cambrian to the end of the Permian eras-and... -
Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom Teresa Robeson 9781454932208
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, girls did not attend school; no one considered them as smart as boys. But her parents felt differently. Naming their daughter "Courageous Hero,"... -
Space Ecology: From Earth to Moon and Mars Patrizia Caraveo 9783031783432
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.04The recent entry of private entrepreneurs into the world of space has multiplied the number of services provided by instruments in orbit, resulting into a rapid and tumultuous growth of the space... -
Nuclear Weapons, Scientists, And The Post-cold War Challenge: Selected Papers On Arms Control by Sidney D. Drell 9789812568960
RRP: £123.00Booksplease Price: £110.08This volume includes a representative selection of Sidney Drell's recent writings and speeches (circa 1993 to the present) on public policy issues with substantial scientific components. Most of the... -
Data Science for Complex Systems by Anindya S. Chakrabarti 9781108844796
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £50.82Many real-life systems are dynamic, evolving, and intertwined. Examples of such systems displaying 'complexity', can be found in a wide variety of contexts ranging from economics to biology, to the... -
Saving the Starry Night: Light Pollution and Its Effects on Science, Culture and Nature by Patrizia Caraveo 9783030850630
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.66This book takes a close look at our relationship with the sky, the stars, light and darkness. In particular, it examines how light pollution has interfered with the culture of astronomy and our... -
Theory of Simple Glasses: Exact Solutions in Infinite Dimensions by Giorgio Parisi
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £70.50This pedagogical and self-contained text describes the modern mean field theory of simple structural glasses. The book begins with a thorough explanation of infinite-dimensional models in statistical... -
100 Science Discoveries: That Changed the World by Colin Salter
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.16Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World charts the great... -
Dare to Know by James Kennedy
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £13.66A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare. Dare to Know is what happens when Willy Loman sees through the Matrix. A heartbreaking, time-bending, galactic mindbender delivered in the mordantly... -
Dare to Know : A Novel by James Kennedy 9781683692706
Booksplease Price: £14.09A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare. Dare to Know is what happens when Willy Loman sees through the Matrix. A heartbreaking, time-bending, galactic mindbender delivered in the mordantly... -
Illinois from A to Z by Betty Kay 9780252025402
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.77Learning about Illinois history is as easy as ABC with this lively, attractive, alphabetical tour of the state. Pairing brief, informative statements with photographs and drawings of their subjects,...