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Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics

Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the...

Author: Peter Woit
ISBN: 9780099488644
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Tells a complex story about human beings and their attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually...  Read More >>

Surviving Armageddon

Surviving Armageddon

Author: Bill McGuire
ISBN: 9780192805720
Format: Paperback
$28.95

The Asian tsunami of Christmas 2004 killed more than a quarter of a million people and shattered the lives of many...  Read More >>

Ice

Ice

Author: Mariana Gosnell
ISBN: 9780226304960
Format: Paperback
$34.25

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Techno-Cultural Evolution: Cycles of Creation and Conflict

Techno-Cultural Evolution: Cycles of Creation and Conflict...

Author: William McDonald Wallace
ISBN: 9781597971072
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Evolution has long shaped human behavior. Yet just recently have we learned that evolution based on natural selection...  Read More >>

Scientists and Scoundrels: A Book of Hoaxes

Scientists and Scoundrels: A Book of Hoaxes

Author: Robert Silverberg
ISBN: 9780803259898
Format: Paperback
$38.50

Originally published: New York: Crowell, 1965.  Read More >>

Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages

Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages

Author: Alex Wright ,  Joseph Henry Press
ISBN: 9780309102384
Format: Hardback
$73.79

What do primordial bacteria, medieval alchemists, and the World Wide Web have to do with each other? Exploring how...  Read More >>

Your Body: The Fish That Evolved

Your Body: The Fish That Evolved

Author: Keith Dr. Harrison
ISBN: 9781844543793
Format: Hardback
$52.67

We know more about our bodies than ever before, but why are there so unanswered questions? Why do our elbows and...  Read More >>

Chronology of Science

Chronology of Science

Author: Lisa Rezende
ISBN: 9780816071197
Format: Paperback
$40.70

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From The Flight Deck: Plane Talk and Sky Science

From The Flight Deck: Plane Talk and Sky Science

Author: Doug Morris
ISBN: 9781550227659
Format: Paperback
$42.11

The ultimate travel companion - explaining everything from the physics of flight, to what travellers can see out...  Read More >>

The Telescope: Its History, Technology, and Future

The Telescope: Its History, Technology, and Future

Author: Geoff Andersen
ISBN: 9780691129792
Format: Hardback
$79.07

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From X-Rays to Quarks

From X-Rays to Quarks

Author: Emilio Segre
ISBN: 9780486457833
Format: Paperback
$44.75

A leading figure in twentieth-century physics offers impressions and recollections of the field's development. Nobel...  Read More >>

From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves

From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves

Author: Emilio Segre
ISBN: 9780486458083
Format: Paperback
$42.11

This chronicle by a renowned physicist traces the development of scientific thought from the works of Galileo, Huygens,...  Read More >>

Science's Strangest Inventions

Science's Strangest Inventions

Author: Tom Quinn
ISBN: 9781861058263
Format: Paperback
$34.32

The history of science is littered with mad, bad and delightfully dotty inventions, from a bicycle powered by its...  Read More >>

Where are All the Aliens?

Where are All the Aliens?

Author: Terri Pierce-Butler ,  Melanie Pierce-Butler
ISBN: 9781430322603
Format: Paperback
$72.60

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Fundamental Forces Of Nature: The Story Of Gauge Fields

Fundamental Forces Of Nature: The Story Of Gauge Fields...

Author: Kerson Huang (Massachusetts Inst Of Tech, Usa)
ISBN: 9789812706454
Format: Paperback
$134.64

Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each...  Read More >>

Exploding a Myth: Conventional Wisdom or Scientific Truth?

Exploding a Myth: Conventional Wisdom or Scientific...

Author: Jeremy Dunning-Davies (University of Hull, UK)
ISBN: 9781904275305
Format: Paperback
$131.94

"In this book Jeremy Dunning-Davies deals with the influence that ""conventional wisdom"" has on science, scientific...  Read More >>

Fundamental Forces Of Nature: The Story Of Gauge Fields

Fundamental Forces Of Nature: The Story Of Gauge Fields...

Author: Kerson Huang (Massachusetts Inst Of Tech, Usa)
ISBN: 9789812706447
Format: Hardback
$182.16

Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each...  Read More >>

Once We Were Warriors: The Aftermath: The Controversy of OWW in Aotearoa New Zealand

Once We Were Warriors: The Aftermath: The Controversy...

Author: Emiel Martens
ISBN: 9789052602363
Format: Paperback
$97.55

In 1990 unknown Maori author Alan Duff suddenly became both famous and notorious in New Zealand for his first novel...  Read More >>

The Earth Machine: The Science of a Dynamic Planet

The Earth Machine: The Science of a Dynamic Planet

Author: Edmond Mathez (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,) ,  James Webster
ISBN: 9780231125796
Format: Paperback
$124.95

From the scorching center of Earth's core to the outer limits of its atmosphere, from the gradual process of erosion...  Read More >>

Frozen Light: The Eternal Beauty of Crystals

Frozen Light: The Eternal Beauty of Crystals

Author: Lawrence Stoller
ISBN: 9781601091031
Format: Hardback
$129.99

Featuring over 150 dramatic colour photographs, Stoller's 'Frozen Light' is a tour de force showcase of the beauty...  Read More >>

Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems

Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems...

Author: John J. Watkins
ISBN: 9780691130620
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A work on chessboard problems. From Knight's Tour Problem and Queens Domination to their many variations, it surveys...  Read More >>

Vite matematiche: Protagonisti del '900, da Hilbert a Wiles

Vite matematiche: Protagonisti del '900, da Hilbert...

Author: C. Bartocci ,  R. Betti
ISBN: 9788847006393
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Brief Lives 3 - Newton

Brief Lives 3 - Newton

Author: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN: 9780099287384
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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