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Neutrino by Frank Close 9780199695997
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.00What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they? Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed in certain radioactive decays, they pass through most... -
Nothing: A Very Short Introduction by Frank Close
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.35What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from... -
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Neutrino by Frank Close 9780199695997 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.58What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they? Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed in certain radioactive decays, they pass through most... -
Eclipse - Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon by Frank Close
RRP: $19.98Booksplease Price: $16.47On 21 August 2017, over 100 million people will gather in a narrow belt across the USA to witness the most watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse - Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon,... -
Nuclear Physics: A Very Short Introduction by Frank Close
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.35Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the 19th century, which implied the existence of a positive... -
Eclipses: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Frank Close
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.12"Have you ever seen a total solar eclipse?" If the question caused you to search your memory, the correct answer would have been "no." A common response is: "Yes--I saw one, it was about 90% partial... -
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Electromagnetic Interactions and Hadronic Structure by Frank Close 9780521844208 [USED COPY]
RRP: $172.86Booksplease Price: $1.61The distribution of quarks within protons and neutrons, their interactions, and how they define the properties of protons, neutrons and nuclei, are subjects of major research worldwide. Written by... -
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the... -
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The Mystery of Mass: How Higgs Explained the Universe by Frank Close 9780241521144 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $11.02The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of itIn the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific... -
Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by Frank Close 9780465069989
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Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by Frank Close 9781780747460
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The Infinity Puzzle: The personalities, politics, and extraordinary science behind the Higgs boson by Frank Close
RRP: $17.40Booksplease Price: $15.70We are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago, three brilliant, yet little-known scientists - an American, a Dutchman, and an Englishman - made breakthroughs which later inspired... -
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.71From the acclaimed author of John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, the biography of one of America's greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt.'Meticulously researched and authoritative, heroically... -
The Common Thread by John Sulston 9780552159609
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09John Sulston was director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge from 1993 to 2000. There he led the British arm of the international team selected to map the entire human DNA sequence, a feat that was... -
On the Origin of Time: The instant Sunday Times bestseller by Thomas Hertog 9781804991121
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51'A wonderful book about Stephen Hawking's biggest legacy' Spectator'Truly mind-stretching... Immensely rewarding' The Times'This superbly written book offers insight into an extraordinary individual,... -
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Operation Morthor: The Last Great Mystery of the Cold War by Ravi Somaiya 9780241975022 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $6.88LONGLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'One of the mysteries I've long been fascinated by, and I am so grateful that Ravi Somaiya has cracked it open so brilliantly' David Grann, author... -
Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motions of Planets Around the Sun by David L. Goodstein 9780099736219
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51On 14 March 1964 Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 20th Century, delivered a lecture entitled 'The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun'. For thirty years this... -
Smashing Physics Jon Butterworth 9781472210333
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the... -
The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter by Helen R. Quinn 9780691163932
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.03In the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang lingers a question at the heart of our very existence: why does the universe contain matter but almost no antimatter? The laws of physics tell us... -
How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But what about relativity? Physics professor Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts of general relativity in this...