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Science a la Mode: Physical Fashions and Fictions by Tony Rothman 9780691604831
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59These iconoclastic and witty essays are about what happens when scientists jump on band-wagons. Tony Rothman applies creative skepticism to contemporary fashions in science, including the "standard... -
On Gravity: A Brief Tour of a Weighty Subject by Anthony Zee 9780691202662
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.40A pithy yet deep introduction to Einstein's general theory of relativityOf the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity might be the least understood and yet the one with which we are most intimate... -
Breakthrough: Spectacular stories of scientific discovery from the Higgs particle to black holes by Marcus Chown
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.'An excellent popular science book.'DARA O BRIAIN'A thoroughly... -
QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga by Silvan S. Schweber
RRP: €85.68Booksplease Price: €74.45In the 1930s, physics was in a crisis. There appeared to be no way to reconcile the new theory of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity. Several approaches had been tried and had... -
Feynman's Tips on Physics: Reflections, Advice, Insights, Practice by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.77Feynman's Tips on Physics is a delightful collection of Richard P. Feynman's insights and an essential companion to his legendary Feynman Lectures on Physics With characteristic flair, insight, and... -
Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture by Peter L. Galison 9780691177908
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.89More than fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein's vital engagement with the world continues to inspire others, spurring conversations, projects, and research, in the sciences as well as the... -
Handbook of Feynman Path Integrals by Christian Grosche 9783662147610
RRP: €114.84Booksplease Price: €108.12The Handbook of Feynman Path Integrals appears just fifty years after Richard Feynman published his pioneering paper in 1948 entitled "Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics", in... -
Statistical Mechanics: A Set Of Lectures by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: €69.01Booksplease Price: €64.43This classic graduate lecture note volume on statistical mechanics focuses on Physics, rather than mathematics. It provides a concise introduction to basic concepts and a clear presentation of... -
You Are Wrong, Mr Einstein!: Newton, Einstein, Heisenberg And Feynman Discussing Quantum Mechanics by Harald Fritzsch
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €34.15With Foreword by S L GlashowWerner Heisenberg and Richard Feynman find quantum physics fascinating and necessary for understanding the atoms. Albert Einstein dislikes it and Isaac Newton does not... -
The Pursuit of Reality: Narrative History of the Quantum and the Great Minds that Made it by Selçuk Ş. Bayın 9789819910304
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €37.51In a highly accessible style, this book presents a narrative history of the quantum theory with the new developments that intrigue all inquisitive minds. Quantum theory is counter-intuitive and... -
RNA and DNA Diagnostics by Volker A. Erdmann 9783319361994
Booksplease Price: €108.12The aim of molecular diagnostics is preferentially to detect a developing disease before any symptoms appear. There has been a significant increase, fueled by technologies from the human genome... -
Strangers by Choice: An Asocial Philosophy of Life.- Translated by Tul'si Bhambry and Agnieszka Waskiewicz. Editorial work by Tul'si Bhambry. by Andrzej Waskiewicz 9783631640401
RRP: €75.33Booksplease Price: €67.25Strangers by Choice explores voluntary otherness as a philosophy of life. This philosophy is asocial in the sense that its followers tend to privilege separateness over belonging, and yet it does not... -
RNA and DNA Diagnostics by Volker A. Erdmann 9783319173047
Booksplease Price: €109.10The aim of molecular diagnostics is preferentially to detect a developing disease before any symptoms appear. There has been a significant increase, fueled by technologies from the human genome... -
Quantum Lyrics: Poems by A. Van Jordan 9780393333121
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €15.66This ambitious collection explores the intersection of the infinite world of physics with the perplexities of the human condition. Employing both narrative and cinematic structure, Jordan re-creates... -
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €47.90"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning... -
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III: The New Millennium Edition: Quantum Mechanics by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €39.54"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning... -
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €45.34The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning... -
Silicon Sensors and Actuators: The Feynman Roadmap by Benedetto Vigna 9783030801373
Booksplease Price: €68.69This book thoroughly reviews the present knowledge on silicon micromechanical transducers and addresses emerging and future technology challenges. Readers will acquire a solid theoretical and... -
Disturbing The Universe by Freeman Dyson 9780465016778
Booksplease Price: €24.78Spanning the years from World War II, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, through his studies with Hans Bethe at Cornell... -
Proceedings Of The Conference In Honour Of Murray Gell-mann's 80th Birthday: Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Cosmology And Complexity Harald Fritzsch (Ludwig Maximilian Univ Of Munich, Germany) 9789814338622
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €75.07The Conference on Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Cosmology and Complexity was held in honour of Professor Murray Gell-Mann's 80th birthday in Singapore on 24-26 February 2010. The... -
Quantum Kinematics And Dynamic by Julian Schwinger
RRP: €90.43Booksplease Price: €84.00A classic from 1969, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered at the Les Houches Summer School of Theoretical Physics in 1955. The book outlines a general scheme of quantum kinematics and... -
Jayme Tiomno: A Life for Science, a Life for Brazil by William Dean Brewer 9783030410131
Booksplease Price: €60.99Jayme Tiomno (1920-2011) was one of the most influential Brazilian physicists of the 20th century, interacting with many of the renowned physicists of his time, including John Wheeler and Richard... -
An Introduction to Quantum Computing Algorithms by Arthur O. Pittenger 9781461271277
Booksplease Price: €72.64In 1994 Peter Shor [65] published a factoring algorithm for a quantum computer that finds the prime factors of a composite integer N more efficiently than is possible with the known algorithms for a... -
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall 9780060531096
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060531096Author Lisa RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint < -
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World by Lisa Randall 9780061723735
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061723735Author Lisa RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint < -
More Than One Mystery: Explorations in Quantum Interference by Mark P. Silverman 9780387943763
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €35.96"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." #Richard Feynman# Basing his discussion on a small number of conceptually simple models (the two-level atom, the two-slit... -
Jayme Tiomno: A Life for Science, a Life for Brazil by William Dean Brewer 9783030410100
Booksplease Price: €78.49Jayme Tiomno (1920-2011) was one of the most influential Brazilian physicists of the 20th century, interacting with many of the renowned physicists of his time, including John Wheeler and Richard... -
Thermo-Hydraulics of Nuclear Reactors by Christopher Earls Brennen 9781107139602
Booksplease Price: €65.63This book provides a concise and up-to-date summary of the essential thermo-hydraulic analyses and design principles of nuclear reactors for electricity generation. Beginning with the basic nuclear... -
Camino de la Luna - Truth (Without Pictures) by Pearl Howie 9780244119089
RRP: €13.16Booksplease Price: €12.33The sixth and penultimate in the ""Camino de la Luna"" series (or eighth if you count ""free Feeling Real Emotions Everyday"" and ""Japan Is Very Wonderful"") ""Truth"" continues the journey. "The... -
Particles, Sources, And Fields, Volume 2 Julian Schwinger 9780738200545
RRP: €78.53Booksplease Price: €72.52This classic book (volume two of three volumes) is almost exclusively concerned with quantum electrodynamics. As such, it is retrospective in its subject matter. The topics discussed range from... -
Principles Of Nanotechnology: Molecular Based Study Of Condensed Matter In Small Systems by G. Ali Mansoori 9789812562050
RRP: €60.69Booksplease Price: €55.00This invaluable book provides a pointed introduction to the fascinating subject of bottom-up nanotechnology with emphasis on the molecular-based study of condensed matter in small systems... -
Particles, Sources, And Fields, Volume 1 Julian Schwinger 9780738200538
RRP: €90.43Booksplease Price: €83.65This classic, the first of three volumes, presents techniques that emphasize the unity of high-energy particle physics with electrodynamics, gravitational theory, and many-particle cooperative... -
Introducing Fractals: A Graphic Guide by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon 9781848310872
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94Fractals are the geometry of the natural world. They're about the broken, wrinkled, wiggly world- the uneven shapes of nature, unlike the idealised forms of Euclidean geometry. We see fractals... -
Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics by David Kaiser
Booksplease Price: €53.30Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics since the middle of the twentieth century. Introduced by the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) soon after... -
Atomic and Nanometer-Scale Modification of Materials: Fundamentals and Applications by Phaedon Avouris 9789401048958
Booksplease Price: €55.07This volume contains the proceedings of the conference on "Atomic and Nanometer Scale Modification of Materials: Fundamentals and Applications" which was co-sponsored by NATO and the Engineering... -
Quantum Legacy: The Discovery That Changed the Universe by Barry R. Parker 9781573929936
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €29.00Today we all take for granted the many technological marvels that have sprung from quantum physics without ever appreciating the radical paradigm shift that led to these discoveries. The story of the... -
Advanced Quantum Mechanics by Freeman J. Dyson 9789814383400
RRP: €96.39Booksplease Price: €86.75Renowned physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson is famous for his work in quantum mechanics, nuclear weapons policy and bold visions for the future of humanity. In the 1940s, he was responsible... -
Clarity or Death! by Jeffrey Wainwright 9781857549126
Booksplease Price: €16.72'I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I didn't live much longer!' "Clarity or Death!" takes its title from this letter of... -
Creative Collaboration by Vera John-Steiner 9780195307702
Booksplease Price: €48.97In Creative Collaboration, Vera John-Steiner offers rare and fascinating glimpses into the dynamic alliances from which some of our most important scholarly ideas, scientific theories and art forms... -
Quantum Computing and Communications by Michael Brooks 9781852330910
Booksplease Price: €55.07We have, in the last few years, radically improved our grasp of the quantum world. Not just intellectually, either: our ability to manipulate real quantum systems has grown in equal measure with our...