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Collected Papers on Wave Mechanics by Erwin Schroedinger 9780821829769
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $74.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
<I>What Is Life?</I>: The Intellectual Pertinence of Erwin Schroedinger by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $75.65Erwin Schroedinger (1887-1961) is best known as a co-recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of a mathematical description of quantum mechanics. Today, many experts also... -
<I>What Is Life?</I>: The Intellectual Pertinence of Erwin Schroedinger by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht 9780804769167
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Erwin Schroedinger (1887-1961) is best known as a co-recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of a mathematical description of quantum mechanics. Today, many experts also... -
My View of the World by Erwin Schrodinger 9780521090483
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $16.95A Nobel prize winner, a great man and a great scientist, Erwin Schroedinger has made his mark in physics, but his eye scans a far wider horizon: here are two stimulating and discursive essays which... -
'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' by Erwin Schrodinger
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.79Nobel laureate Erwin Schroedinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks'... -
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are... -
What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches by Erwin Schrodinger
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.71Nobel laureate Erwin Schroedinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. It was written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to the birth of... -
Collected Papers On Wave Mechanics by Erwin Schrödinger 9781927763803
RRP: $19.70Booksplease Price: $18.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927763803Author Erwin SchroedingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprin -
Humanology: A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence Luke O'Neill 9780717180158
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $28.50Taking us on an incredible journey across centuries and galaxies, accompanied by his characteristic wit, Professor Luke O'Neill explains how it all began, how it all will end and everything in... -
Encounters with Einstein: And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles by Werner Heisenberg
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.74In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact... -
The Seven Measures of the World Piero Martin 9780300280111
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world "Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are... -
QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga by Silvan S. Schweber
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $80.70In 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... -
Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger, and Wilson Leah Ceccarelli 9780226099071
Booksplease Price: $39.25How do scientists persuade colleagues from diverse fields to cross the disciplinary divide, risking their careers in new interdisciplinary research programs? Why do some attempts to inspire such... -
Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger, and Wilson by Leah Ceccarelli 9780226099064
Booksplease Price: $120.71How do scientists persuade colleagues from diverse fields to cross the disciplinary divide, risking their careers in new interdisciplinary research programs? Why do some attempts to inspire such... -
On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences by Richard Doyle
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $99.83What 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... -
Applied Bohmian Mechanics: From Nanoscale Systems to Cosmology by Xavier Oriols Pladevall
RRP: $149.64Booksplease Price: $131.19Most 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... -
The Age of Uncertainty: how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world by Tobias Hurter
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.72The 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,... -
On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences by Richard Doyle 9780804727655
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26What 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95A 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 Computing from Colossus to Qubits: The History, Theory, and Application of a Revolutionary Science by John Gribbin
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20The 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... -
Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley by John Gribbin
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55Shortlisted 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: $23.21Booksplease Price: $17.87A 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... -
Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell by Dennis Bray
Booksplease Price: $21.61In 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... -
The Stability of Belief: How Rational Belief Coheres with Probability by Hannes Leitgeb
Booksplease Price: $138.79In 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... -
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In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat: Updated Edition by John Gribbin 9780552125550 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.83Quantum 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Erwin 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: $16.11Booksplease Price: $10.31Seventy 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. ... -
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,... -
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World by David Kaiser 9780226819990
Booksplease Price: $21.25A 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: $32.24Booksplease Price: $20.27NEW 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...