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Gravity by George Gamow 9781607961482
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $15.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607961482Author George GamowFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher... -
Gravity by George Gamow 9789388118484
Booksplease Price: $26.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388118484Author George GamowFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint General PressPublisher General... -
Gravity by George Gamow 9789388118705
Booksplease Price: $45.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388118705Author George GamowPage Count 156Imprint General PressPublisher General Press -
The New World of Mr Tompkins: George Gamow's Classic Mr Tompkins in Paperback by George Gamow
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $41.90Mr Tompkins is back! The mild-mannered bank clerk with the short attention span and vivid imagination has inspired, charmed and informed young and old alike since the publication of the hugely... -
Mr Tompkins in Paperback by George Gamow
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.93Since his first appearance over sixty years ago, Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many thousands of readers as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams and adventures lead him into a world... -
The New World of Mr Tompkins: George Gamow's Classic Mr Tompkins in Paperback by George Gamow 9780521630092
Booksplease Price: $194.33Mr Tompkins is back! The mild-mannered bank clerk with the short attention span and vivid imagination has inspired, charmed and informed young and old alike since the publication of the hugely... -
Mr Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life by George Gamow
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $34.69George Gamow's first Tompkins book, Mr Tompkins in Wonderland, created a 'toy universe' where, as his son comments in the preface to this 2010 reprint, 'the maximum speed of light is assumed to be 10... -
The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein by George Gamow 9780486257679
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $30.20Outstanding text by one of the 20th century's foremost physicists dramatically explains how the central laws of physical science evolved, from Pythagoras' discovery of frequency ratios in the 6th... -
I Never Call It Big Bang - George Gamow: The Extraordinary Story Of A Genius Of Physics by Alessandro Bottino
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $58.91This book tells the incredible story of George Gamow, one of the most brilliant and extravagant physicists of the past century. Gamow was born in Russia in 1904 and died in the USA in 1968. He lived... -
One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486256641Author George GamowFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher... -
Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory by George Gamow 9780486248950
RRP: $38.83Booksplease Price: $26.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486248950Author George GamowFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher... -
Atomic Energy in Cosmic and Human Life: Fifty Years of Radioactivity by George Gamow 9781107402089
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $74.49First published in 1945, in the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic Energy in Cosmic and Human Life offers a unique account of the problem of atomic energy and the underlying... -
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate by Paul Halpern
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.96In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The Quantum Labyrinth, and Synchronicity -- that reveal the... -
The Imaginary Present: Essays in Quantum Poetics Amy Catanzano 9780472039838
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $30.72The Imaginary Present by award-winning poet and professor Amy Catanzano explores cutting-edge scientific fields such as particle physics and astrophysics, and branches of physics such as quantum... -
Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology by Max Jammer
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $65.73The philosophy of religion and the quest for spiritual truth preoccupied Albert Einstein--so much that it has been said "one might suspect he was a disguised theologian." Nevertheless, the literature... -
The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Albert Einstein
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.17This is the definitive edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages. The... -
The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Albert Einstein 9780691138176
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $36.44Here is the definitive new edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages. The... -
Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe by Helge Kragh
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $98.36For over three millennia, most people could understand the universe only in terms of myth, religion, and philosophy. Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology transformed into a branch of physics. With this... -
Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist by Rudolf Peierls 9780691602202
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $129.78Here is the intensely personal and often humorous autobiography of one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, Sir Rudolf Peierls. Born in Germany in 1907, Peierls was... -
Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics by Anthony Zee 9780691173269
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $32.87The concept of symmetry has widespread manifestations and many diverse applications--from architecture to mathematics to science. Yet, as twentieth-century physics has revealed, symmetry has a... -
The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist’s Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality P. J. E. Peebles 9780691231372
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.19From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical... -
Echo of the Big Bang by Michael D. Lemonick
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.78A tight-knit, high-powered group of scientists and engineers spent eight years building a satellite designed, in effect, to read the genome of the universe. Launched in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave... -
The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality by P. J. E. Peebles
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical... -
In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist by Silvan S. Schweber 9780691127859
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $65.73In the Shadow of the Bomb narrates how two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists--J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hans A. Bethe--came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to create. In... -
Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe by Jeremiah P. Ostriker
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.61Heart of Darkness describes the incredible saga of humankind's quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the universe. Over the past thirty years, scientists have learned that two little-understood... -
QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga by Silvan S. Schweber
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $121.80In 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... -
Fantasia Mathematica by Clifton Fadiman 9780387949314
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $64.16Clifton Fadiman's classic collection of mathematical stories, essays and anecdotes is now once again available. Ranging from the poignant to the comical via the simply surreal, these selections... -
The New Order Chris Edwards 9781493089116
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $37.78What if the great discoveries of science came in the "wrong" order? The Laws of Thermodynamics were discovered well after the creation of algebra, classical physics, and chemistry, but are perhaps... -
Walter Baade: A Life in Astrophysics by Donald E. Osterbrock 9780691049366
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $94.77Although less well known outside the field than Edwin Hubble, Walter Baade was arguably the most influential observational astronomer of the twentieth century. Written by a fellow astronomer deeply... -
Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life by Hubert P. Yockey 9780521169585
RRP: $98.70Booksplease Price: $95.36Originally published in 2005, Information Theory, Evolution and the Origin of Life presents an introduction to the use of information theory and coding theory in molecular biology. The genetical... -
Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life by Hubert P. Yockey 9780521802932
RRP: $239.40Booksplease Price: $231.32Originally published in 2005, Information Theory, Evolution and the Origin of Life presents an introduction to the use of information theory and coding theory in molecular biology. The genetical... -
On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences by Richard Doyle
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $162.52What 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... -
Truth and Falsehood: An Inquiry into Generalized Logical Values by Yaroslav Shramko 9789400709065
Booksplease Price: $195.85The book presents a thoroughly elaborated logical theory of generalized truth-values understood as subsets of some established set of (basic) truth values. After elucidating the importance of the... -
On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences by Richard Doyle 9780804727655
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76What 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... -
Drive and Curiosity: What Fuels the Passion for Science by Istvan Hargittai 9781616144685
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $44.69What motivates those few scientists who rise above their peers to achieve breakthrough discoveries? This book examines the careers of fifteen eminent scientists who achieved some of the most notable... -
Plant Cell Biology: From Astronomy to Zoology by Randy O. Wayne 9780128143711
Booksplease Price: $197.46Plant Cell Biology, Second Edition: From Astronomy to Zoology connects the fundamentals of plant anatomy, plant physiology, plant growth and development, plant taxonomy, plant biochemistry, plant... -
Masters of the Universe: Conversations with Cosmologists of the Past by Helge Kragh
Booksplease Price: $94.56How did our modern picture of the universe come into being? Masters of the Universe tells this fascinating story in an unusual format that blends factual and fictional elements. It is based on a... -
The Astronomers' Magic Envelope: An Introduction to Astrophysics Emphasizing General Principles and Orders of Magnitude by Prasenjit Saha 9780198816478
RRP: $61.93Booksplease Price: $58.82Working physicists, and especially astrophysicists, value a good `back-of-the-envelope' calculation, meaning a short, elegant computation or argument that starts from general principles and leads to... -
The Astronomers' Magic Envelope: An Introduction to Astrophysics Emphasizing General Principles and Orders of Magnitude by Prasenjit Saha 9780198816461
RRP: $123.90Booksplease Price: $112.31Working physicists, and especially astrophysicists, value a good `back-of-the-envelope' calculation, meaning a short, elegant computation or argument that starts from general principles and leads to... -
The Age of Innocence: Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars by Roger H. Stuewer 9780198827870
RRP: $117.60Booksplease Price: $101.98The two decades between the first and second world wars saw the emergence of nuclear physics as the dominant field of experimental and theoretical physics, owing to the work of an international cast...