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  • Black Holes Are Souls

    by Mike Hockney ...
    Any theory – any theory at all – that begins with false assumptions will produce false results. Therefore, the most fundamental task of all is to examine and get right the assumptions that underlie a theory. How do science’s fundamental assumptions stand up to scrutiny? Science falls apart at a particular aspect of existence that can be defined exactly – at singularities. The whole logic of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Night of the Physicists

    Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsäcker and the German Bomb

    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists they believed had worked on the German nuclear programme. Interned in an English country house owned by MI6, their conversations were secretly recorded. Operation Epsilon sought to determine how close Nazi Germany had come to building an atomic bomb. It was in this quiet setting – Farm Hall, near Cambridge – that the interned physicists ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Waves in an Impossible Sea

    How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

    A theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey—found in "no other book" (Science)—to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all: "If you want to know what's really going on in the realms of relativity and particle physics, read this book" (Sean Carroll, author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe).In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Science of Everyday Life

    An Entertaining and Enlightening Examination of Everything We Do and Everything We See

    by Len Fisher ...
    Scientists are in the business of trying to understand the world. Exploring commonplace phenomena, they have uncovered some of nature’s deepest laws. We can in turn apply these laws to our own lives, to better grasp and enhance our performance in daily activities as varied as cooking, home improvement, sports—even dunking a doughnut! This book makes the science of the familiar a key to opening the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Theory of Low-Temperature Plasma Physics

    Series Book 95 - Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
    This book offers the reader an overview of the basic approaches to the theoretical description of low-temperature plasmas, covering numerical methods, mathematical models and modeling techniques. The main methods of calculating the cross sections of plasma particle interaction and the solution of the kinetic Boltzmann equation for determining the transport coefficients of the plasma are also ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Methods of Thermodynamics

    by Howard Reiss ...
    Series series Dover Books on Physics
    Since there is no shortage of excellent general books on elementary thermodynamics, this book takes a different approach, focusing attention on the problem areas of understanding of concept and especially on the overwhelming but usually hidden role of "constraints" in thermodynamics, as well as on the lucid exposition of the significance, construction, and use (in the case of arbitrary systems) of ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A City on Mars

    Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?

    *** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Scientific American’s #1 Book for 2023 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Times Best Science and Environment Book of 2023 * A Tor.com Best Book of 2023 *“Exceptional. . . Forceful, engaging and funny . . . This book will make you happy to live on this planet — a good thing, because you’re not leaving anytime soon.” —New York Times Book ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Wave

    In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean

    by Susan Casey ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this "wonderfully vivid, kinetic narrative" (The New York Times), the bestselling author of Voices in the Ocean captures colossal, ship-swallowing waves, and the surfers and scientists who seek them out.For legendary surfer Laird Hamilton, hundred foot waves represent the ultimate challenge. As Susan Casey travels the globe, hunting these monsters of the ocean with ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Adrift on a Sea of Lies

    by David Klooz ...
    How would you feel if you were told that everything you thought you knew was a lie? Humanity has been living with amnesia since the dawn of civilization. Mankind has believed that authority provides the truth, rather than truth provides the authority. This book is an attempt to find the truth of our past and the real history of our civilization., why it has been hidden away from us and by whom. It ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

  • Our Moon

    How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

    by Rebecca Boyle ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A riveting feat of science writing that recasts that most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily extraordinary, pivotal to our history, and awesome in the original sense of the word.”—Ed Yong, New York Times bestselling author of An Immense WorldA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceMany of us know that the Moon pulls on our oceans, driving the tides, but ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Handbook of Satellite Orbits

    From Kepler to GPS

    Fifty years after Sputnik, artificial satellites have become indispensable monitors in many areas, such as economics, meteorology, telecommunications, navigation and remote sensing. The specific orbits are important for the proper functioning of the satellites. This book discusses the great variety of satellite orbits, both in shape (circular to highly elliptical) and properties (geostationary, ... Read more

    $485.99 USD

  • Think Like a Rocket Scientist

    Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

    by Ozan Varol ...
    * One of Inc.com's "6 Books You Need to Read in 2020 (According to Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, and Adam Grant)"* Adam Grant's # 1 pick of his top 20 books of 2020* One of 6 Groundbreaking Books of Spring 2020 (according to Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant).A former rocket scientist reveals the habits, ideas, and strategies that will empower you to turn the seemingly impossible ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Kepler and the Universe

    How One Man Revolutionized Astronomy

    by David K. Love ...
    A contemporary of Galileo and a forerunner of Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a pioneering German scientist and a pivotal figure in the history of astronomy. This colorful, well-researched biography brings the man and his scientific discoveries to life, showing how his contributions were every bit as important as those of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton.It was Kepler who first ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Voyager

    Constellations of Memory

    Translated by Natasha Wimmer ...
    A startling book-length essay, at once grand and intimate, from National Book Award finalist Nona Fernández.Voyager begins with Nona Fernández accompanying her elderly mother to the doctor to seek an explanation for her frequent falls and inability to remember what preceded them. As the author stares at the image of her mother’s brain scan, it occurs to her that the electrical signals shown on the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Infrared and Raman Characteristic Frequencies of Organic Molecules

    This necessary desk reference for every practicing spectroscopist represents the first definitive book written specifically to integrate knowledge about group frequencies in infrared as well as Raman spectra. In the spirit of previous classics developed by Bellamy and others, this volume has expanded its scope and updated its coverage. In addition to detailing characteristic group frequencies of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Timeless Atoms

    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    In this book we explore the world of atoms: what atoms are, what they are made of, and why atoms are timeless, never aging or wearing down. Almost all atoms will exist until the end of time. We’ll discover why a few rare atoms are radioactive, decaying in predictable ways, and why these radioactive atoms exist in all living things, including us. We’ll examine how we can date the past -- ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Electromagnetism

    Series series Dover Books on Physics
    Clearly developed from first principles, this introductory study supplies basic material on electrostatics and magnetostatics, then concentrates on electromagnetic theory — the authors are both leading men in the field. The book ranges freely over many areas of electromagnetic theory with some concern for electrical engineering. It covers the field theory of electromagnetism, electrostatics and ... Read more

    $12.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apollo and America's Moon Landing Program: Apollo 9 Official NASA Mission Reports and Press Kit - 1969 First Manned Flight of the Lunar Module in Earth Orbit by McDivitt, Scott, and Schweickart

    Three comprehensive official NASA documents - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - chronicle the vital first manned test flight of the Apollo lunar module, Apollo 9, conducted by astronauts McDivitt, Scott, and Schweickart in early 1969.Two technical mission reports, the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) Apollo 8 Mission Report and the NASA Headquarters Mission Operation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Is Biocentrism Dead? Understanding the Universe and Nature

    by Raj Bogle ...
    “Is Biocentrism Dead?” It is a topic that many find a bit off putting but it is a question that many persons are starting to pose as they become wiser to certain things. The book explains what biocentrism is and how the tenets that surround this concept came into being.This is a book that the inquiring mind will appreciate thus it is ideal for the individuals who want to learn more about ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abc Of Physics: A Very Brief Guide

    Translated from Russian by Vitaly KisinThis little book concentrates on the foundations of modern physics (its 'ABC's') and its most fundamental constants: c — the velocity of light and ℏ — the quantum of action.First of all, the book is addressed to professional physicists, but in order to achieve maximal concentration and clarity it uses the simplest (high school) mathematics. As a result many ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Perfectionists

    How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

    “Another gem from one of the world’s justly celebrated historians specializing in unusual and always fascinating subjects and people.” — Booklist (starred review)The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Space 2069

    After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars, and Beyond

    'It is rare to read something that so closely mixes science fiction with reality, but Space 2069 does just that ... [It's] an intelligent portrait of where we may be in the next half-century. - BBC Sky at NightNearing half a century since the last Apollo mission, mankind has yet to return to the Moon, but that is about to change. With NASA's Artemis program scheduled for this decade, astronomer ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry: A Practical Guide

    The second edition of Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry: A Practical Guide follows the highly successful first edition by F.G. Kitson, B.S. Larsen, and C.N. McEwen (1996), which was designed as an indispensible resource for GC/MS practitioners regardless of whether they are a novice or well experienced. The Fundamentals section has been extensively reworked from the original edition to give ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Heliocentric Astrology or Essentials of Astronomy and Solar Mentality with Tables of Ephemeris to 1913

    This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to Heliocentric Astrology with an outline of the essentials of Solar Mentality. It includes detailed diagrams and charts, as well as helpful explanations and other related information. "Heliocentric Astrology" will appeal to those with a keen interest in astrology, and it would make for fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus