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A Life in History by David Kaiser 9781732874503
RRP: $20.00Booksplease Price: $16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732874503Author David KaiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Mount Greylock Books... -
States of the Union by David Kaiser 9781732874534
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732874534Author David KaiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Mount Greylock Books... -
Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision by David Kaiser 9780262518154
Booksplease Price: $36.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262518154Author David KaiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture by David Kaiser
Booksplease Price: $32.38In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science "as if from a place inhabited by plague," and even seeking "subversion of the... -
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World by David Kaiser
Booksplease Price: $30.79The 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,... -
NFL 1965: The Most Exciting Season by David Kaiser 9781476686455
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.37In the mid-1960s, when pro football eclipsed baseball as America's leading spectator sport, the NFL had the most exciting season in its history. The Eastern Conference Cleveland Browns were the... -
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World by David Kaiser 9780226819990
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $19.03A 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... -
The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by David Kaiser 9780674034723
Booksplease Price: $38.34Neither a random event nor the act of a lone madman-the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was an appalling and grisly conspiracy. This is the unvarnished story.With deft investigative skill,... -
Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture by David Kaiser 9780226372884
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $100.10In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science "as if from a place inhabited by plague," and even seeking... -
American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War by David Kaiser 9780674006720
RRP: $41.22Booksplease Price: $35.23Fought as fiercely by politicians and the public as by troops in Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War--its origins, its conduct, its consequences--is still being contested. In what will become the classic... -
Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics by David Kaiser
Booksplease Price: $51.73Feynman 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... -
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser 9780393342314
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.11Today, quantum information theory is among the most exciting scientific frontiers, attracting billions of dollars in funding and thousands of talented researchers. But as MIT physicist and historian... -
No End Save Victory: How FDR Led the Nation into War by David Kaiser 9780465052981
Booksplease Price: $24.30While Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first hundred days may be the most celebrated period of his presidency, the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor proved the most critical. Beginning as early as... -
!["Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson's Journey through the Universe by David Kaiser](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/211900/8515828/9780262047340__30957.1743027652.jpg?c=1 ""Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson's Journey through the Universe by David Kaiser")
"Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson's Journey through the Universe by David Kaiser
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $25.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047340Author David KaiserFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Lectures Of Sidney Coleman On Quantum Field Theory: Foreword By David Kaiser by Yuan-Sen Ting 9789814635509
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $91.45'Sidney Coleman was the master teacher of quantum field theory. All of us who knew him became his students and disciples. SidneyaEURO (TM)s legendary course remains fresh and bracing, because he... -
Baseball Greatness: Top Players and Teams According to Wins Above Average, 1901-2016 by David Kaiser 9781476663838
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.50Recent advances in baseball statistical analysis have made it possible to assess the totality of contribution each player makes to team success or failure. Using the metric Wins Above Average... -
Economic Diplomacy and the Origins of the Second World War: Germany, Britain, France, and Eastern Europe, 1930-1939 by David E. Kaiser 9780691648330
RRP: $188.34Booksplease Price: $149.65Although the political and military aspects of great-power diplomacy in Eastern Europe during the interwar period have been studied extensively, the economic aspects have been relatively neglected... -
Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism by David Aram Kaiser 9780521022682
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $46.01This ambitious study, first published in 1999, argues that our conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from conflicts between competing models of... -
Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism by David Aram Kaiser 9780521630009
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $115.70This ambitious study, first published in 1999, argues that our conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from conflicts between competing models of... -
Geoffrey Chew: The Architect Of Bootstrap by Lars Brink
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $102.56This special volume is dedicated to Geoffrey Chew who passed away on April 12, 2019, at age 94. He is best known as the architect and passionate champion of the bootstrap concept, sometimes called... -
Advanced Quantum Mechanics by Freeman J. Dyson
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.86Renowned 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... -
Advanced Quantum Mechanics by Freeman J. Dyson 9789814383400
RRP: $104.49Booksplease Price: $94.04Renowned 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... -
Science and the America Century: Readings from Isis by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Booksplease Price: $39.64The twentieth century was one of astonishing change in science, especially as pursued in the United States. Against a backdrop of dramatic political and economic shifts brought by world wars,... -
Physical Sciences and the Language of War: Science and Society by Peter Galison
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $130.20Modern science has changed every aspect of life in ways that cannot be compared to developments of previous eras. This four-volume set presents key developments within modern physical science and the... -
Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education by J. Rudolph 9781349387939
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $42.84During the 1950s, leading American scientists embarked on an unprecedented project to remake high school science education. Dissatisfaction with the 'soft' school curriculum of the time advocated by... -
Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science by Mary Jo Nye 9780226103174
Booksplease Price: $37.22In Michael Polanyi and His Generation, Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science... -
Gravitation by Charles W. Misner
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $69.98First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level textbook that presents Einstein's general theory of relativity and offers a rigorous, full-year course on the physics of gravitation... -
The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves by Kip Thorne 9781631498541
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $47.28Nearly two decades in the making, The Warped Side of Our Universe marks the historic collaboration of Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne and award-winning artist Lia Halloran. It brings to vivid life the... -
Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity (1916-1956) by Dean Rickles 9780199602957
RRP: $126.42Booksplease Price: $115.71The problem of quantum gravity is often viewed as the most pressing unresolved problem of modern physics: our theories of spacetime and matter, described respectively by general relativity... -
The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars by Anthony D'Agostino 9780521154246
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $39.67Does a system of great powers necessarily imply a struggle for world primacy? Do great states merely hold onto what is theirs, or do they reach for more? Anthony D'Agostino offers a fascinating new... -
Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions Alain Aspect 9780226832012
RRP: $16.77Booksplease Price: $13.17A Nobel laureate offers a brief lesson on physics' biggest mystery, accessibly explaining the two quantum revolutions that changed our understanding of reality. At the start of the twentieth... -
Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism by Thomas Levenson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of... -
Six Stories from the End of Representation: Images in Painting, Photography, Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle Physics, and Quantum Mechanics, 1980-2000 by James Elkins 9780804741484
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.69James Elkins has shaped the discussion about how we-as artists, as art historians, or as outsiders-view art. He has not only revolutionized our thinking about the purpose of teaching art, but has... -
The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen by Brian Cox
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91From the bestselling authors of Why does E=mc2? comes The Quantum Universe, in which Brian Cox, presenter of the BBC's Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe, and Jeff Forshaw go on... -
Reimagining Time: A Light-Speed Tour of Einstein's Theory of Relativity by Tanya Bub
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.21A quirky, funny, and accessible blend of science and art that delves into the heart of Einstein's theory of relativity "A fascinating introduction to the core concepts of special relativity. The... -
More than Nothing: A History of the Vacuum in Theoretical Physics, 1925-1980 by Aaron Sidney Wright 9780190062804
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $97.32The vacuum is central to physicists' best theories of subatomic particles, gravitation, and cosmology. Nothingness provides the reference point with which to compare new particle creation and... -
The Cambridge History of the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler 9781107602298
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $43.55This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War. In the first comprehensive reexamination of the period, a team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the... -
Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives by Angela N. H. Creager
Booksplease Price: $43.54Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable... -
Niels Bohr and the Philosophy of Physics: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives by Jan Faye 9781350109032
Booksplease Price: $47.88Niels Bohr and Philosophy of Physics: Twenty-First Century Perspectives examines the philosophical views, influences and legacy of the Nobel Prize physicist and philosophical spokesman of the quantum... -
Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity by David Griffiths
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $32.12Sidney Coleman (1937-2007) earned his doctorate at Caltech under Murray Gell-Mann. Before completing his thesis, he was hired by Harvard and remained there his entire career. A celebrated particle...