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Applied Bohmian Mechanics: From Nanoscale Systems to Cosmology by Xavier Oriols Pladevall
RRP: €138.04Booksplease Price: €121.02Most textbooks explain quantum mechanics as a story where each step follows naturally from the one preceding it. However, the development of quantum mechanics was exactly the opposite. It was a... -
Quantum Systems under Gravitational Time Dilation by Magdalena Zych 9783319850856
Booksplease Price: €107.77This thesis introduces a new theoretical tool to explore the notion of time and temporal order in quantum mechanics: the relativistic quantum "clock" framework. It proposes novel thought experiments... -
What is Life? The Next Fifty Years: Speculations on the Future of Biology by Michael P. Murphy 9780521599399
RRP: €48.79Booksplease Price: €45.20Erwin Schroedinger's book What is Life? had a tremendous influence on the development of molecular biology, stimulating scientists such as Watson and Crick to explore the physical basis of life. Much... -
The Age of Uncertainty: how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world by Tobias Hurter
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.96The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg,... -
Springs of Scientific Creativity: Essays on Founders of Modern Science by claire Aris 9780816668304
RRP: €54.74Booksplease Price: €45.61Springs of Scientific Creativity was first published in 1983.Mathematician Henri Poincare was boarding a bus when he realized that the transformations of non-Euclidian geometry were just those he... -
On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences by Richard Doyle 9780804727655
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23What do biologists study when they study "life" today? Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent of molecular biology, with its emphasis on... -
Simply Quantum Physics by DK
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02A clear, simple, graphic-led introduction to quantum physics.Are you short of time but hungry for knowledge? This beginner's quantum physics book proves that sometimes less is more. Bold graphics and... -
Surveys in Geometry I by Athanase Papadopoulos 9783030866945
RRP: €95.19Booksplease Price: €90.20The volume consists of a set of surveys on geometry in the broad sense. The goal is to present a certain number of research topics in a non-technical and appealing manner.The topics surveyed include... -
Singularities: Landmarks on the Pathways of Life by Christian De Duve 9780521841955
RRP: €79.73Booksplease Price: €76.52Erwin Schroedinger's What is Life? published 60 years ago, influenced much of the development of molecular biology. In this new book Christian De Duve, Nobel Laureate and pioneer of modern cell... -
The Einstein Paradox: The Debate on Nonlocality and Incompleteness in 1935 Guido Bacciagaluppi 9781107014459
RRP: €154.70Booksplease Price: €141.71The famously controversial 1935 paper by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) took aim at the heart of the flourishing field of quantum mechanics. The paper provoked responses from the leading... -
Quantum Computing from Colossus to Qubits: The History, Theory, and Application of a Revolutionary Science by John Gribbin
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26The revolution is here. In breakthrough after breakthrough, pioneering physicists are unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences... -
Performing Hysteria: Images and Imaginations of Hysteria by Johanna Braun 9789462702110
Booksplease Price: €26.16We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of "hysterical" discussions on diverse topics such as the #metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars,... -
Civil Aviation and the Globalization of the Cold War by Peter Svik 9783030516024
Booksplease Price: €133.42This book focuses on the highly complex and intertwined relationship between civil aviation, technological globalization and Cold War politics. It explores how the advancement of Soviet civil... -
Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley by John Gribbin
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65Shortlisted for the BSHS Hughes Prize What if Isaac Newton had never lived? Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has... -
Simply Quantum Physics by DK 9780744028485
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.16A clear, simple, graphic-led introduction to quantum physics.Are you short of time but hungry for knowledge? This beginner's quantum physics book proves that sometimes less is more. Bold graphics and... -
Quantum Physics for Poets by Leon M. Lederman 9781616142339
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €27.62Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a whole. But for many, the theory remains an... -
Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell by Dennis Bray
Booksplease Price: €19.93In the tradition of as Erwin Schroedinger's What Is Life? and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, a distinguished cell biologist explains how living cells perform computations How does a single-cell... -
Mathematical Geography in the Eighteenth Century: Euler, Lagrange and Lambert by Renzo Caddeo 9783031095726
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €121.98This volume presents the beautiful memoirs of Euler, Lagrange and Lambert on geography, translated into English and put into perspective through explanatory and historical essays as well as... -
Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher by William Taussig Scott 9780195174335
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €84.43Michael Polanyi was one of the great figures of European intellectual life in the 20th century. A highly acclaimed physical chemist in the first period of his career who became a celebrated... -
In the Tradition of Thurston III: Geometry and Dynamics by Ken’ichi Ohshika 9783031435010
RRP: €142.79Booksplease Price: €133.42William Thurston's ideas have altered the course of twentieth century mathematics, and they continue to have a significant influence on succeeding generations of mathematicians. The purpose of the... -
The Stability of Belief: How Rational Belief Coheres with Probability by Hannes Leitgeb
Booksplease Price: €118.68In everyday life we normally express our beliefs in all-or-nothing terms: I believe it is going to rain; I don't believe that my lottery ticket will win. In other cases, if possible, we resort to... -
A Geometric Journey Toward Genuine Multipartite Entanglement Songbo Xie 9783032001702
Booksplease Price: €133.42This thesis proposes a novel measure of quantum entanglement that can be used to characterize the degree of entanglement of three (or more) parties. Entanglement has been studied and used in many... -
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In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat: Updated Edition by John Gribbin 9780552125550 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €5.59Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of all modern sciences. Without it, we'd have no... -
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution by John Gribbin
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26Erwin Schroedinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his thought experiment of a cat in a box, both alive... -
What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology by Addy Pross
RRP: €14.86Booksplease Price: €9.51Seventy years ago, Erwin Schroedinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists ever since. ... -
Projective Simulation in Action: Quantum-Mechanical Perspectives on the Problem of Agency Hans J. Briegel 9783031981180
Booksplease Price: €55.07This open access monograph presents an in-depth study of the problem of how agency fits into the physical world. In particular, the authors focus on agency as a precondition of free will. They... -
Aperiodic Order: Volume 1, A Mathematical Invitation by Michael Baake
RRP: €115.43Booksplease Price: €110.84Quasicrystals are non-periodic solids that were discovered in 1982 by Dan Shechtman, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 2011. The underlying mathematics, known as the theory of aperiodic order, is the... -
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: An Exploration of the Physical Meaning of Quantum Theory Travis Norsen 9783319658667
Booksplease Price: €55.07Authored by an acclaimed teacher of quantum physics and philosophy, this textbook pays special attention to the aspects that many courses sweep under the carpet. Traditional courses in quantum... -
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World by David Kaiser
Booksplease Price: €28.41The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states,... -
Arthur E. Haas - The Hidden Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics: A Biography by Michael Wiescher 9783030806088
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €121.62The book highlights the personal and scientific struggles of Arthur Erich Haas (1884-1941), an Austrian Physicist from a wealthy Jewish middle-class family, whose remarkable accomplishments in a... -
Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us Michael S. Walker 9781633889057
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €19.47Quantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson's terms the strange phenomena that exist at the quantum level--a world of tiny... -
Quantum Measurement: Theory and Practice by Andrew N. Jordan 9781009100069
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €63.88This book adopts a novel, physics-first approach to quantum measurement, using physical experiments as the basis to describe the underlying mathematical formalism. Topics covered include weak... -
Quantum 2.0: The Weird Physics Driving a New Revolution in Technology by Paul Davies 9780241655801
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.11How did a radical new theory of nature - quantum mechanics - revolutionize our world?Where might it take us next?And why do we still not understand it?In this exhilarating and sometimes mind-bending... -
Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators: Bringing tax money back into the COFFERS by Brigitte Unger 9780198854722
RRP: €145.78Booksplease Price: €140.35This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and... -
A Short Introduction to String Theory by Thomas Mohaupt
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €40.58Suitable for graduate students in physics and mathematics, this book presents a concise and pedagogical introduction to string theory. It focuses on explaining the key concepts of string theory, such... -
Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics by Paul Halpern 9780465096831
Booksplease Price: €14.61When the fuzzy indeterminacy of quantum mechanics overthrew the orderly world of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schroedinger were at the forefront of the revolution. Neither man was ever... -
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World by David Kaiser 9780226819990
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €17.55A series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of discovery and debate in physicists' ongoing quest to understand the quantum world. The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain... -
Consciousness Is All There Is: How Understanding and Experiencing Consciousness Will Transform Your Life by Dr. Tony Nader 9781401976507
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €18.31NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERFrom a renowned Vedic scholar, leader of the Maharishi Foundations, and Harvard-trained neuroscientist: a radical new paradigm for understanding Consciousness...