The Universe and Dr. Einstein
time inc., January 1962. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market. Mildly worn [128 pages]. More
time inc., January 1962. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market. Mildly worn [128 pages]. More
Flatiron Publishing, February 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Joyful and funny . . . Park uses science, compassion, humor, diverse stories and examples of her own shame-free living to take the stigma out of these infections. --The New York Times With curiosity and wit, Strange Bedfellows rips back the bedsheets to..... More
Basic Books, May 1988. First Edition. Cloth. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} In only slightly shelf worn jacket. Brick red cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Complete number string. [229 pages]. More
Dover Publications, June 2005. Reprint. Paper Back. This history of physics focuses on the question, How do bodies act on one another across space? The variety of answers illustrates the function of fundamental analogies or models in physics, as well as the role of so-called unobservable entities. Forces and Fields..... More
Dover Publications, 1961. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Cover designed by Edmund Gillon. Sun-lightened spine. Mild edgewear. [440 pages + xxxi]. More
Doubleday Anchor, 1961. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with slightly darkened spine. More
New American Library (NAL), September 1960. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Biologist, eugenicist Julian Huxley, the brother of Aldoux, originally published this book under title New Bottles for New Wine. Heavy foxing and damp stain spotting throughout. Rose red tinted textblock edges. [287 pagers]. More
Dell, 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2012. Trade Paperback. When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced..... More
Between the Lines, May 2014. Trade Paperback. The bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, brought radiation to international attention but the exact nature of what had been unleashed was still unclear to most. The 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant again made headlines with estimates of fatalities ranging..... More
Vintage, March 2003. Trade Paperback. Eloquent, practical and wise, this book by one of the world's most important scientists--and two time Pulitzer Prize winner--should be read and studied by anyone concerned with the fate of the natural world. It "makes one thing clear ... we know what we do, and..... More
Vintage, February 2000. Trade Paperback. "[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, "The New York Times Book Review" In a rare blend of scientific insight and..... More
Henry Holt & Company, September 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of..... More
Sirius, May 2017. Hardcover. Neuroscience is the science of the brain and the nervous system. It relates to sensory matters as well as motor. There are some fairly obvious examples, such as Phineas Gage and Spallanzani's frog legs, studies of madness and genius, early physical treatments for psychiatric disorders, the..... More
Vintage, September 2000. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond,"..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1996. Trade Paperback. During the great ages of exploration "the longitude problem" was the greatest of scientific challenges. Lacking the ability to determine their longitude, sailors were literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Ships ran aground on rocky shores; those traveling..... More
William Morrow Paperbacks, April 2019. Trade Paperback. "THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "A masterpiece of science writing." --Washington Post A New York Times Bestseller - Goodreads Choice Awards Winner - A BEST..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, June 1984. Reprint. Paper Back. Trained in both classics and computer science, Bolter considers the cultural impact of computers on our age, comparing the computer to earlier technologies that redefined fundamental notions of time, space, language, memory, and human creativity. Surprisingly, he finds that..... More
University of Chicago Press, June 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. "There is much to love between this book's covers. . . . There are many eureka moments in Life Sculpted--and some truly beautiful ones."--Eugenia Bone, Wall Street Journal Meet the menagerie of lifeforms that dig, crunch, bore, and otherwise reshape our..... More
Harvard University Press, October 1999. Hardcover. Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Built to fix an unquestionable date for Easter, they also housed instruments that threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system, and so within sight of the..... More
N/A, October 1995. Paper Back. "Beyond Einstein" takes readers on an exciting excursion into thediscoveries that have led scientists to the brightest new prospect intheoretical physics today -- superstring theory. What is superstring theory andwhy is it important? This revolutionary breakthrough may well be thefulfillment of Albert Einstein's lifelong dream..... More
Cambridge University Press, May 1969. Trade Paperback. More
Harvest Books, May 2002. Trade Paperback. The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece..... More
Harper, August 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In..... More