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Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	Exploring Space A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press Mark R. Chartrand, Ph.D.; Illustrated by Ron Miller Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press This fascinating Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press covers the entire spectrum of space exploration. Learn about: -The history of space travel, from the...

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The Science of UFOs

What If They're Real?

William R. Alschuler, Ph.D. St. Martin's Griffin

The Scientific Investigation of the greatest challenge facing humanity: What if UFOs are real? Reports of UFO sightings and strange visitors from the sky go...

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Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	The 2nd Law Energy, Chaos, and Form P. W. Atkins W. H. Freeman All natural change is subject to one law. It's the second law of thermodynamics. In this volume, the acclaimed chemist and science writer P. W. Atkins shows...

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Mapping Mars

Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World

Oliver Morton Picador

How can you make sense of a world where no one has ever lived? Acclaimed science writer Oliver Morton tells the story of the heroic landscapes of Mars, now...

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The Survival Imperative

Using Space to Protect Earth

William E. Burrows Forge Books

A daring new vision of our future in space from an internationally renowned science journalist.

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Hardcover : $21.95 Buy	Schrodinger's Machines The Quantum Technology Reshaping Everyday Life Gerard J. Milburn; Foreword by Paul Davies W. H. Freeman In his foreword to Schrödinger's Machines, Paul Davies writes, "The nineteenth century was known as the machine age, the twentieth century will go down in...

Hardcover : $26.95 Buy	The Born - Einstein Letters Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times MacSci Max Born and Albert Einstein, Introduction by Werner Heisenberg, Foreword by Bertrand Russell, New Preface by Kip Thorne & Diana Buchwald Palgrave Macmillan Albert Einstein and Max Born were great friends. Their letters span 40 years and two world wars. In them they argue about quantum theory, agree about...

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Dance of the Photons

From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation

Anton Zeilinger Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Einstein’s steadfast refusal to accept certain aspects of quantum theory was rooted in his insistence that physics has to be about reality. Accordingly, he...

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Space on Earth

Saving Our World by Seeking Others

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Charles S. Cockell Palgrave Macmillan

Many environmentalists think going into space detracts from solving problems here on Earth. Many astrophysicists feel environmentalism hampers their...

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Many Worlds in One

The Search for Other Universes

Alex Vilenkin Hill and Wang

A Leading Figure in the Development of the New Cosmology Explains What It All Means Among his peers, Alex Vilenkin is regarded as one of the most...

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Bones, Rocks and Stars

The Science of When Things Happened

Chris Turney Palgrave Macmillan

From pyramids to dinosaurs, comets to King Arthur, Chris Turney explains how we pinpoint when things happened in a way everyone can grasp

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The God Effect

Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon

Brian Clegg St. Martin's Griffin

The phenomenon that Einstein thought too spooky and strange to be true What is entanglement? It's a connection between quantum particles, the building...

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Instant Egghead Guide

Physics

Brian Clegg with Scientific American St. Martin's Griffin

Scientific American's daily Sixty-Second Science podcast was such an unexpected success, with millions of downloads, that a spin-off site was created around...

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The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck

What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe

Marcus Chown Faber and Faber, Inc.

Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you about the most shocking discovery in the history of science: that at its deepest level the...

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The Dancing Wu Li Masters

An Overview of the New Physics

Gary Zukav; Read by the author Macmillan Audio

Particle physics is a science that few of us really understand. Indeed, it can be an intimidating, confusing study. Or it can be, as it is in The Dancing Wu...

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Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime John Archibald Wheeler W. H. Freeman Gravity is not a force acting at a distance. It is mass gripping spacetime, telling it how to curve, and spacetime gripping mass, telling it how to move. ...

Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws Minutes from an Infinite Paradise Manfred Schroeder W. H. Freeman “As notable as the book’s broad sweep is the author’s good-natured, humorous presentation.”—Physics Today

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A Life in Twilight

The Final Years of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Mark Wolverton St. Martin's Press

A Life in Twilight reveals the least-known and most enigmatic period of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life, from the public humiliation he endured after the 1954...

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Feynman

By Jim Ottaviani, illustrated by Leland Myrick First Second

Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker. In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents...

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