Physics
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A Short Bright Flash: Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse
$15.95 Read moreAugustin Fresnel (1788-1827) shocked the scientific elite with his unique understanding of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a brilliant feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze ma… [more below]
- Author: Levitt, Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0393350894
- Language: English
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God: the Evidence
$19.82 Add to cartThe “holy grail” of physics is quantum gravity, often called the theory of everything. But any scientific theory will be incomplete without the God of the Bible. Physicists claim the cosmos began with
- Author: Larsen, Ronald W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 19, 2022
- ISBN10: 1728370108
- Language: English
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Schaum’s Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition
$24.00 Add to cartTough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Textbook too Pricey?
Fortunately, there’s Schaum’s. This all-in-one-package includes more than 700 fully-solved problems, examples, and practice
- Author: Hecht, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1259587398
- Language: English
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Conquering the Physics GRE
$59.50 Add to cartThe Physics GRE plays a significant role in deciding admissions to nearly all US physics Ph.D. programs, yet few exam-prep books focus on the test’s actual content and unique structure. Recognized as … [more below]
- Author: Kahn, Yoni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1108409563
- Language: English
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Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures
$18.00 Add to cartDeveloping a theory that seamlessly combines relativity and quantum mechanics, the most important conceptual breakthroughs in twentieth century physics, has proved to be a difficult and ongoing challe… [more below]
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: July 13 1999
- ISBN10: 0521658624
- Language: English
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A Little Book of Coincidence: In the Solar System
$8.95 Add to cartVenus draws a beautiful pentagram around Earth every eight years. Jupiter’s two largest moons draw a perfect four-fold flower. The Planets grandly play out the slow Music of the Spheres. Is there a se… [more below]
- Series: Wooden Books North America Editions
- Author: Martineau, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1952178061
- Language: English
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Fundamentals of Astrodynamics: Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cartDeveloped at the U.S. Air Force Academy, this teaching text is widely known and used throughout the astrodynamics and aerospace engineering communities. Completely revised and updated, this second edi… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Bate, Roger R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0486497046
- Language: English
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
$28.00 Add to cartFrom a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos–and a call for a more liberatory practice of science.
Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize i- Author: Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1541724704
- Language: English
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
$6.99 Add to cartDiscover Albert Einstein’s groundbreaking theories with “”Relativity: The Special and the General Theory.”” This influential work provides a comprehensive exploration of the principles that revolutio
- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: June 01 2017
- ISBN10: 8175994657
- Language: English
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The Principia
$17.99 Add to cartSir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles) is considered to be among the finest scientific works ever published. His grand unifying idea of gravitation, with effects extending … [more below]
- Series: Great Minds
- Author: Sir Isaac Newton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0879759801
- Language: English
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
$21.95 Read moreThe definitive account of Tesla’s life and work
Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, pate- Author: Carlson, W. Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: April 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0691165610
- Language: English
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Magnetic Current
$6.94 Add to cartEdward Leedskalnin was an eccentric Latvian emigrant to the United States and amateur sculptor who single-handedly built the monument known as Coral Castle in Florida. He was also known for his unusua
- Author: Leedskalnin, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 26
- Publish Date: June 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1684119227
- Language: English
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Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
$19.99 Add to cartArt interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words–with physicis
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shlain, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0061227978
- Language: English
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
$17.95 Read moreMixing memoir and visionary science, a leading astrophysicist’s groundbreaking personal account of her life and ideas
Is the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna- Author: Levin, Janna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 069123227X
- Language: English
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Solar System: A Visual Exploration of All the Planets, Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies That Orbit Our Sun–Updated Edition
$30.00 Add to cartAn astonishing journey through space and time. Experience all the wonders of our interplanetary neighborhood through fascinating text, original graphics, and stunning photographs.
Never before have th- Series: Solar System
- Author: Chown, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0762480734
- Language: English
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The Planets: The Definitive Visual Guide to Our Solar System
$32.00 Add to cartDiscover places where a day is longer than a year, where hailstones are made of diamonds, and where a mountain looms twice the size of Everest.
The S
These and more are all to be found in The Planets.- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1465424644
- Language: English
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We Have No Idea: We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
$18.00 Read morePrepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious universe
Humanity’s understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore –t… [more below]- Author: Cham, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0735211523
- Language: English
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What the Ear Hears (and Doesn’t): Inside the Extraordinary Everyday World of Frequency
$16.99 Add to cartFor readers of Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill O’Neill, What the Ear Hears (and Doesn’t) is a fascinating science book for adults that explores the physics principle of frequency and the (sometimes weird
- Author: Mainwaring, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1728259363
- Language: English
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Supernova
$16.95 Read moreA concise illustrated introduction to the history and physics of supernovae, the brilliant explosions of stars; with striking color illustrations.
Supernovae are the explosions of stars. They are som
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Graur, Or
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543141
- 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
