Physics
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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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The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and the host of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a memoir about growing up and a young man’s budding scientific curiosity.This is the absorbing story … [more below]
- Author: Tyson, Neil Degrasse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 159102188X
- Language: English
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The Book of Strange But True Science
$16.98 Read morePacked with hundreds of articles on the most interesting things that ever happened in science. Plus a few things that didn’t.
- Filled with both pragmatic, commonsense explanations and outrageous revela
- Series: Book of
- Author: Publications International Ltd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640308334
- Language: English
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Super Simple Physics: The Ultimate Bitesize Study Guide
$21.99 Add to cartCrammed with fascinating facts and all the core curriculum topics, this physics book will have you exam-ready in no time
Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this completely compre… [more below]- Series: Supersimple
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0744027535
- Language: English
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Chaos: Making a New Science
$23.00 Add to cartThe million-copy New York Times bestseller and finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award that reveals the science behind chaos theory
A work of popular science in the tradition- Author: Gleick, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113453
- Language: English
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Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartQuantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our unders… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #69
- Author: Polkinghorne, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0192802526
- Language: English
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Einstein’s Clocks, Poincare’s Maps: Empires of Time
$27.99 Add to cartClocks and trains, telegraphs and colonial conquest: the challenges of the late nineteenth century were an indispensable real-world background to the enormous theoretical breakthrough of relativity. A
- Author: Galison, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: September 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393326047
- Language: English
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The Little Book of String Theory
$22.95 Read moreThe essential beginner’s guide to string theory
The Little Book of String Theory offers a short, accessible, and entertaining introduction to one of the most talked-about areas of physics today. Strin- Series: Science Essentials #11
- Author: Gubser, Steven S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0691142890
- Language: English
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A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars
$53.33 Add to cartA brief guide to the real science of interstellar travel
With known exoplanets now numbering in the thousands and initiatives like 100 Year Starship and Breakthrough Starshot advancing the idea of int- Author: Johnson, Les
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0691212376
- Language: English
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
$13.95 Read moreA short, provocative book about why “useless” science often leads to humanity’s greatest technological breakthroughs
A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources- Author: Flexner, Abraham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0691174768
- Language: English
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The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics
$50.67 Read moreA “fascinating [and] provocative” argument by a particle physicist–marshalling a “heady mix of history, philosophy and cutting-edge theory” (Wall Street Journal)–for monism, the ancient idea about t
- Author: P?s, Heinrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674855
- Language: English
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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “provocative” book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field’s modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science.
Whether pondering black holes or pr… [more below]- Author: Hossenfelder, Sabine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646762
- Language: English
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What’s Hidden Inside Planets?
$16.95 Read moreA guided journey through the inner workings of Earth, the cloaked mysteries of other planets in our solar system, and beyond.
Extreme heat. Extreme cold. Extreme pressure. Toxic gases. Scorching magma
- Series: Johns Hopkins Wavelengths
- Author: Stanley, Sabine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1421448165
- Language: English
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The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
$23.00 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The epic story of the greatest quest in all of science–the holy grail of physics that would explain the creation of the universe–from renowned theoretical physicist an… [more below]
- Author: Kaku, Michio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0385542747
- Language: English
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Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry
$17.95 Read moreFrom the basics of physics to big questions about the nature of space and time, celebrated astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down the mysteries of the cosmos into bite
- Author: Degrasse Tyson, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1324003286
- Language: English
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Gravity
$19.99 Read moreWhat keeps objects from floating out of your hand?
As in his previous books, Redwoods, Coral Reefs
What if your feet drifted away from the ground?
What stops everything from floating into space?
Gravity.- Author: Chin, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1596437170
- Language: English
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Quantum Entanglement
$16.95 Add to cartAn exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.
Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common s
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Brody, Jed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 18, 2020
- ISBN10: 026253844X
- Language: English
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Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality
$33.95 Read moreLewis Carroll Epstein explains deep ideas in physics in an easy-to-understand way. Thinking Physics is a perfect beginner’s guide to an amazingly wide range of physics-related questions. The book targ… [more below]
- Author: Epstein, Lewis Carroll
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 582
- Publish Date: September 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0935218084
- Language: English
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Magnet Max
$12.95 Add to cartMagnet Max loves experimenting with magnets He knows all about how they work and loves using them to attract new types of things. But when he shows them to his friend Nick, the other boy is baffled.
- Series: Learning League
- Author: Hughes, Monica Lozano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: May 15, 2015
- ISBN10: 1612542247
- Language: English
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The World According to Physics
$20.95 Read moreQuantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinating and illuminating look at what physics reveals about the world
Shining a light on the most profoun- Author: Al-Khalili, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0691182302
- Language: English
