Atomic & Molecular
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Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us
$22.95 Add to cartQuantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson’s terms the strange phenomena that exist at the quantum level–a world of tiny dim… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 163388905X
- Language: English
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Chain Reactions: The Hopeful History of Uranium
$29.95 Add to cartTracing uranium’s past–and how it intersects with our understanding of other radioactive elements–Chain Reactions aims to enlighten readers and refresh our attitudes about the atomic world.
Chain Re- Author: Santos, Lucy Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367446
- Language: English
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Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
$30.00 Read moreA fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality.
For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Ein- Author: Padilla, Antonio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0374600562
- Language: English
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The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
$25.99 Add to cart“What Stephen Hawking did for cosmology, Leon Lederman does for particle physics” (Dallas Morning News) in The God Particle, a funny and fascinating look at the universe from the Nobel Prize-winning p… [more below]
- Author: Lederman, Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618711686
- Language: English
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Matter: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is matter? Matter is the stuff from which we and all the things in the world are made. Everything around us — from desks, to books, to our own bodies — are made of atoms, which are small enough… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cottrell, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 019880654X
- Language: English
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Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space
$12.99 Add to cartOn July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For fort
- Author: Randall, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0062300474
- Language: English
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Physics I Workbook for Dummies with Online Practice
$29.99 Add to cartNail your next physics exam and prepare yourself for the next level of physics education
Physics isn’t the easiest part of high school, but it doesn’t have to be pull-your-hair-out hard. In Physics I
- Author: The Experts at Dummies
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1119716470
- Language: English
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Nanotechnology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is Nanotechnology and how will it affect us? Nanobots, nanoprobes, nanoswarms, nanogenes the list goes on. Nanotechnology is a staple of science fiction and has a rather chequered history when it… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Moriarty, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0198841108
- Language: English
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The Atom: A Visual Tour
$39.95 Read moreAn accessible and engaging guide to the atom, the smallest, most fundamental constituent of matter.
Until now, popular science has relegated the atom to a supporting role in defining the different chem
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Challoner, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 11 2018
- ISBN10: 026203736X
- Language: English
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Physics II for Dummies
$29.99 Add to cartA plain-English guide to advanced physics
Does just thinking about the laws of motion make your head spin? Does studying electricity short your circuits? Physics II For Dummies walks you through the e
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Holzner, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0470538066
- Language: English
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The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom
$32.95 Add to cartAtoms are unfathomably tiny. It takes fifteen million trillion of them to make up a single poppy seed–give or take a few billion. And there’s hardly anything to them: atoms are more than 99.999999999
- Author: Helfand, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0231210981
- Language: English
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Physics Essentials for Dummies
$14.99 Add to cartPhysics Essentials For Dummies (9781119590286) was previously published as Physics Essentials For Dummies (9780470618417). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is th
- Author: Holzner, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1119590280
- Language: English
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Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
$18.99 Add to cartShortlisted for the 2020 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books
Creating an element is no easy feat. It’s the equivalent of firing six trillion bullets a second at a needle in a haysta- Author: Chapman, Kit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1472953924
- Language: English
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Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything, Book 2 of 3
$29.99 Add to cartIn Molecules, bestselling author Theodore Gray demonstrates, through stunning, never-before-seen images and illustrations, how the elements of the periodic table combine to form the molecules that mak… [more below]
- Author: Gray, Theodore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1579129714
- Language: English
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Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe, Book 1 of 3
$35.00 Add to cartWith more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, The Elements is the most entertaining, comprehensive, and visually arresting book on all 118 elements in the periodic table.
Includes a poster of Theod- Author: Gray, Theodore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1579128149
- Language: English
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42 Reasons to Hate the Universe: (And One Reason Not To)
$17.99 Read moreIf you’ve always suspected the universe was out to get you… you were right!
Yes, the universe we live in is cosmically beautiful and mysterious and all that crap. But it’s also a bit of an asshole. A
- Author: Ferrie, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1728272823
- Language: English
