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Nuclear Iran by Jeremy Bernstein 9780674417083
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26Iran's nuclear program has generated intense controversy ever since the International Atomic Energy Agency reported in 2003 that Iran was secretly pursuing enrichment activities. Although Iranian... -
Song For Molly, A by Jeremy Bernstein 9789811218194
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.37This book is both a love story and a science fantasy in which people like Goedel and Wittgenstein play a role.Book InformationISBN 9789811218194Author Jeremy BernsteinFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Song For Molly, A Jeremy Bernstein 9789811218941
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54A Song for Molly is both a love story and a poetic homage to science. The subjects in this first-person novella range from encounters with Wittgenstein, Einstein and Goedel, to trying to live with a... -
A Palette of Particles by Jeremy Bernstein 9780674072510
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26From molecules to stars, much of the cosmic canvas can be painted in brushstrokes of primary color: the protons, neutrons, and electrons we know so well. But for meticulous detail, we have to dip... -
Quantum Profiles: Second Edition by Jeremy Bernstein
RRP: £40.49Booksplease Price: £27.58What was Albert Einstein like as a person? How did J. Robert Oppenheimer's religious background impact his scientific endeavors? Why did John Stewart Bell get into physics in the first place?... -
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma by Jeremy Bernstein 9781538190159
Booksplease Price: £17.14A Revealing Profile of the Father of the Atomic BombHighly praised by New York Review of Books, The Spectator, Los Angeles Times, Booklist, & MoreJ. Robert Oppenheimer was a puzzle to everyone. The... -
Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe by Jeremy Bernstein 9780521607469
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.41This graduate/research level text is a self-contained exposition of the applications of kinetic theory to basic problems in modern cosmology, such as the role of stable and unstable massive neutrinos... -
Spaceship Orion And Other Scientific Explorations, The by Jeremy Bernstein
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23A curation of essays penned by Jeremy Bernstein, this book is a treasure trove of personal stories ranging from Bernstein's expedition to Mount Everest, cherished encounters with the fathers of... -
Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe by Jeremy Bernstein 9780521360500
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £82.60This graduate/research level text is a self-contained exposition of the applications of kinetic theory to basic problems in modern cosmology, such as the role of stable and unstable massive neutrinos... -
The Elusive Neutrino by Professor of Physics Jeremy Bernstein 9781410215826
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £17.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410215826Author Professor of Physics Jeremy BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint... -
A Bouquet of Dyson: Reflections on Science and Scientists Jeremy Bernstein 9789813238282
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54My friendship with Freeman Dyson goes back over a half century. My first contact with him goes back to the late 1950s, when I was at the Institute for Advanced Study, and then evolved when I was a... -
Bouquet Of Numbers And Other Scientific Offerings, A by Jeremy Bernstein 9789814759762
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.34This book is an essay collection, along with short stories, which attempts to explain some scientific ideas.Jeremy Bernstein was a long time staff writer for The New Yorker Magazine as well as a... -
Chorus Of Bells And Other Scientific Inquiries, A by Jeremy Bernstein 9789814578943
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.79This book of essays in four parts, was written over a decade and full of surprises for the breadth and variety of its subject matter. The first part is about the foundations of the quantum theory... -
Spaceship Orion And Other Scientific Explorations, The by Jeremy Bernstein 9789811243493
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.45A curation of essays penned by Jeremy Bernstein, this book is a treasure trove of personal stories ranging from Bernstein's expedition to Mount Everest, cherished encounters with the fathers of... -
Bouquet Of Dyson, A: And Other Reflections On Science And Scientists by Jeremy Bernstein 9789813231924
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.98'Freeman Dyson has had an extraordinary range of interests, serious activity and influence. This is reflected in the choice of topics in these essays ... This book is informative, very entertaining... -
Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings by Jeremy Bernstein 9781566632812
Booksplease Price: £21.98Nothing in the history of empire is stranger than the creation of British rule in India, when a small European island became master of a subcontinent ranging from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas... -
Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know by Jeremy Bernstein 9780521126373
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.43This book is a history of nuclear weapons. From their initial theoretical development at the start of the twentieth century to the recent tests in North Korea, Jeremy Bernstein seeks to describe the... -
Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element by Jeremy Bernstein 9780801475177
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.86When plutonium was first manufactured at Berkeley in the spring of 1941, there was so little of it that it was not visible to the naked eye. It took a year to accumulate enough so that one could... -
One Physicist's Guide to Nuclear Weapons: A global perspective by Jeremy Bernstein 9780750313094
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £94.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750313094Author Jeremy BernsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 97Imprint Institute of Physics... -
Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society by Jeremy Bernstein 9780387765051
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.01Over the years, Jeremy Bernstein has been in contact with many of the world's most renowned physicists and other scientists, many of whom were involved in politics, literature, and language. In this... -
Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall by Jeremy Bernstein 9780387950891
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £26.41From April through December of 1945, ten of Nazi Germany's greatest nuclear physicists were detained by Allied military and intelligence services in a kind of gilded cage at Farm Hall, an English... -
Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society by Jeremy Bernstein 9781441926241
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Over the years, Jeremy Bernstein has been in contact with many of the world's most renowned physicists and other scientists, many of whom were involved in politics, literature, and language. In this... -
Bouquet Of Numbers And Other Scientific Offerings, A Jeremy Bernstein (Stevens Inst Of Technology, Usa) 9789814759779
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.82This book is an essay collection, along with short stories, which attempts to explain some scientific ideas.Jeremy Bernstein was a long time staff writer for The New Yorker Magazine as well as a... -
Quantum Leaps: How Quantum Mechanics Took Over Science Jeremy Bernstein (Stevens Inst Of Technology, Usa) 9789813272705
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76In the early years of its conception, J Robert Oppenheimer spoke of quantum theory as a subject that was 'unlikely to be known to any poet or historian.' Yet, as Bernstein notes, in just sixty-odd... -
Quantum Leaps: How Quantum Mechanics Took Over Science Jeremy Bernstein (Stevens Inst Of Technology, Usa) 9789813274419
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54In the early years of its conception, J Robert Oppenheimer spoke of quantum theory as a subject that was 'unlikely to be known to any poet or historian.' Yet, as Bernstein notes, in just sixty-odd... -
A Theory for Everything by J. Bernstein
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.81"...heartily recommended as being as fine an example as one can hope to find of expository writing on science. The profiles of the giants of modern science, not to mention the wonderful accounts of... -
Secrets of the Old One: Einstein, 1905 by J. Bernstein 9781461498186
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.46Makes these ideas accessible to a general reader complex concepts of relativity and the stimulated emission of light through the use of mathematics no more difficult than one learns in high school... -
Secrets of the Old One: Einstein, 1905 by J. Bernstein 9780387260051
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.87Beginning on the 18th of March, 1905,at approximately eight week intervals, the noted German physics journal Annalen der Physik received three hand-written manuscripts from a relatively unknown... -
Meet Cutes NYC: True Stories of Love and Connection on the Streets of New York by Aaron Feinberg 9781523530083
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35An inspiring and heartwarming collection of true love stories from the creators behind the viral Instagram and TikTok account @meetcutesnycIn 2023, three friends-Jeremy Bernstein, Aaron Feinberg, and... -
The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity by Francois Jacob 9780691182841
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.51"The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written."-Michel FoucaultNobel Prize-winning scientist Francois Jacob's The Logic of Life is a landmark book in the history of biology and... -
Redirecting Science: Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics by Finn Aaserud 9780521530675
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44An important study for understanding the complex interconnections between basic science and its sources of economic support in the period between the two world wars. The focus of the study is on the... -
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Tackling the "darkest question in all of philosophy" with "raffish erudition" (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there... -
The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust by Gordon Fraser 9780199592159
Booksplease Price: £62.71It was no accident that the Holocaust and the Atomic Bomb happened at the same time. When the Nazis came into power in 1933, their initial objective was not to get rid of Jews. Rather, their aim was... -
The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust by Gordon Fraser 9780198768005
Booksplease Price: £30.48It was no accident that the Holocaust and the Atomic Bomb happened at the same time. When the Nazis came into power in 1933, their initial objective was not to get rid of Jews. Rather, their aim was... -
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance by Emanuel Derman 9780470192733
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £12.95In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this... -
The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance by Ernst Mayr 9780674364462
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £34.93No one in this century can speak with greater authority on the progress of ideas in biology than Ernst Mayr. And no book has ever established the life sciences so firmly in the mainstream of Western... -
Stanley Kubrick: Interviews by Gene D. Phillips 9781578062973
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36From his first feature film, Fear and Desire (1953), to his final, posthumously released Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick excelled at probing the dark corners of human consciousness. In doing... -
DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West by Various Authors 9781805330516
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Writings on people and places, theater and film, in a portfolio of essays and photographs informing Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City. Featuring 8 newly commissioned pieces alongside more than 20... -
Einstein's German World: New Edition by Fritz Stern 9780691171302
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92The French political philosopher Raymond Aron once observed that the twentieth century "could have been Germany's century." In 1900, the country was Europe's preeminent power, its material strength... -
Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century by Helge Kragh
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.89At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only consist of filling in...