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  • Drawing Physics

    2,600 Years of Discovery From Thales to Higgs

    by Don S. Lemons ...
    Short chronological essays and simple drawings “illuminate a millennia of famous discoveries” and explain 51 key physics concepts (Physics Today).Humans have been trying to understand the physical universe since antiquity. Aristotle had one vision (the realm of the celestial spheres is perfect), and Einstein another (all motion is relativistic). More often than not, understanding begins with a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Hands of Time

    A Watchmaker’s History

    "A hugely entertaining achievement." –Esquire“An engaging survey through a period of intellectual history that reveals as much about people who wear watches as the objects on their wrists." – Wall Street Journal"As impeccably crafted and precisely engineered as any of the watches on which the author has worked so lovingly over the years, this book is a joy to behold and a wonder to enjoy.” –Simon ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Why Do We Exist?

    The Nine Realms of Universe that Make You Possible

    A boundary-breaking astrophysicist reimagines the universe—and our place within it—in this audacious journey through the Nine Realms of the cosmos.“This book explains the universe and then quietly explains you. Which is unfair, because I was just trying to read about space. . . . Smart, funny, and unexpectedly moving.”—Sarah Silverman, comedianThe universe gave rise to everything: stars and cells, ... Read more

    $13.19 USD

  • A Brief History of the Universe (And Our Place in It)

    "A sweeping tour of the laws of physics, the scope of the universe, and the place of life within it." —Sean Carroll, New York Times bestselling author of The Biggest Ideas in the UniverseAn elegant exploration of humanity’s continuous search to find the hidden truths of the universe and comprehend our place in the cosmos.We have always looked up at the night sky and wondered. Ever since the ... Read more

    Was $17.29 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • How the Universe Got Its Spots

    Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

    by Janna Levin ...
    Is the universe infinite, or is it just really big? Does nature abhor infinity? In startling and beautiful prose, Janna Levin's diary of unsent letters to her mother describes what we know about the shape and extent of the universe, about its beginning and its end. She grants the uninitiated access to the astounding findings of contemporary theoretical physics and makes tangible the contours of ... Read more

    Was $13.69 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Pale Blue Dot

    A Vision of the Human Future in Space

    “Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review)In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • Forces of Nature

    Sunday Times BestsellerHow did life on Earth begin? What is the nature of space and time? What are the chances that we will discover life on other worlds?Think you know our planet?Think again.Forces of Nature takes you from the mid-Atlantic ridge in Iceland, the volcanoes of Indonesia and the precipitous cliffs in Nepal, to the manatees off the coast of Florida and the northern lights of the ... Read more

    $5.49 USD

  • Lost in Space

    5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe

    Prepare for liftoff with a sweeping new book on the universe from the world's most celebrated astrophysicist, brimming with wit, authority, and laugh-out-loud humor.Filled with 5,000 tantalizing facts and more than 300 charts, maps, and photographs, this book offers a dazzling look at the cosmos from our home planet to the farthest reaches of outer space.Strap in for a thrilling journey through ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • What If? 2

    Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

    **AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An NPR Best Book of 2022"The questions throughout What If? 2 are equal parts brilliant, gross, and wonderfully absurd and the answers are thorough, deeply researched, and great fun. . . . Science isn’t easy, but in Munroe’s capable hands, it surely can be fun." —TIMEThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest ... Read more

    $5.49 USD

  • 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 * Winner of the Hugo Award * Scientific American’s #1 Book for 2023 * Winner of Royal Society's Trivedi Prize * A Guardian Best Book of 2024 * 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 ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • Under Alien Skies

    A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

    **A Financial Times Best Science Book of 2023 • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • A Scientific American 2023 Staff Recommendation"The next-best thing to traveling through space and time." —Laura Helmuth, editor in chief of Scientific AmericanA rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with the universe like never before.**Have you ever wondered ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Science of Interstellar

    by Kip Thorne ...
    A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan’s award-winning film, Interstellar, from executive producer and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Kip Thorne.Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who assisted Nolan on the ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • A Brief History of Earth

    Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

    Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible style” (AP)“A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED reviewHow well do you know the ground beneath your feet?Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • 宇宙必修課:給大忙人的天文物理學入門攻略

    Translated by 蘇漢宗 ...
    ★《紐約時報》暢銷總榜第一名 ★全球知名宇宙學網紅泰森,為忙碌的你開講宇宙必修課! ★把天文知識化整為零,去除艱澀計算,沒有難懂圖表。全世界大概沒有幾個人能像泰森一樣,能把宇宙天文講得扣人心弦又引人入勝,你可能沒有時間看長篇大論,泰森的這堂必修課輕薄短小,攜帶方便,你在捷運上翻一下,喝咖啡的時候讀一點,每天花上兩三分鐘,就能快速吸收夠用的天文知識,不再被暗物質、暗能量弄得昏天暗地,不再遭大霹靂、重力波震得頭昏眼花。苦口婆心推薦對真正想踏入天文物理一窺堂奧的讀者而言,這是一本入門好書。——國立自然科學博物館 孫維新館長請試試這本輕薄短小的入門心法,這裡寫的可是正宗的少林武功!——交通大學物理所 高文芳教授不管你有多忙,把它帶在身邊,偶爾,品... ... Read more

    $7.12 USD

  • How To

    Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

    AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**“How To will make you laugh as you learn…With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To.” —CNET“[How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend.” —Simone Giertz... ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Quanta and Fields

    The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

    by Sean Carroll ...
    **The instant New York Times bestsellerQuanta and Fields, the second book of Sean Carroll’s already internationally acclaimed series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, is an adventure into the bare stuff of reality.**Sean Carroll is creating a profoundly new approach to sharing physics with a broad audience, one that goes beyond analogies to show how physicists really think. He cuts to the bare ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Billions & Billions

    Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

    by Carl Sagan ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us.These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it end, and how can we meld ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • The Grand Design

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A whirlwind tour of fundamental physics and cosmology.”—The Wall Street Journal“Fascinating . . . a wealth of ideas [that] leave us with a clearer understanding of modern physics in all its invigorating complexity.”—Los Angeles TimesWhen and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of our universe ... Read more

    $5.49 USD

  • The Dawn of Modern Cosmology

    From Copernicus to Newton

    New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything had changed. Not only was the sun the centre of creation, but the entire practice ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • Carl Jung et Wolfgang Pauli. L'enchevêtrement de l'âme.

    Comment l'esprit et l'atome se rencontrent dans la théorie de la synchronicité. L'inconscient collectif et les mystères de la physique quantique.

    L'histoire de la culture européenne du XXe siècle offre peu de rencontres aussi fascinantes et improbables que celle entre Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatre suisse et fondateur de la psychologie analytique, et Wolfgang Pauli, physicien théoricien autrichien, l'un des pères de la mécanique quantique. Leur collaboration, qui a débuté en 1932 et a duré plus de vingt ans, représente l'une des explorations ... Read more

    $9.20 USD

  • The Crowd and the Cosmos

    Adventures in the Zooniverse

    by Chris Lintott ...
    'fascinating' Brian Cox This is the story of citizen science. Where once astronomers sat at the controls of giant telescopes in remote locations, praying for clear skies, now they have no need to budge from their desks, as data arrives in their inbox. And what they receive is overwhelming; projects now being built provide more data in a few nights than in the whole of humanity's history of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Darwin's Doubt

    The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design

    When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,” many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of ... Read more

    $14.19 USD

  • 費曼物理學講義II-(1)靜電與高斯定律

    電磁與物質

    《費曼物理學講義》共有三大卷,展現了最偉大的物理教師——費曼博士的獨到見解,以及縱覽物理學的非凡功力。第II卷的主題為電磁與物質,共有五冊,第1冊解釋靜電與高斯定律的觀念,包括:向量場的微積分、靜電學、高斯定律的應用、靜電能量以及大氣的電學。本書的內容涵蓋:.向量場的微積分:不只是在電磁學非常重要,在各個物理領域中也很有用。.靜電學:是與時間沒有關係的電學,這裡面的問題比較簡單,然後,我們再來考慮更複雜的問題。.高斯定律的應用:高斯定律可以用來解一些具有特別對稱性質的靜電場,而且可以很快求出答案。.靜電能量:在靜電學中,能量守恆原理一樣有用,可以幫助我們發現一些有趣的事。.大氣的電學:雷雨是如何為地球充電的呢?為什麼閃電總是打在高的物體上?且讓電磁學為你解開其中的奧祕。 ... Read more

    $10.70 USD

  • General Relativity 4: Astrophysics & Cosmology

    Advanced Topics

    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    All of modern astrophysics and cosmology stands on the foundation of General Relativity that is best expressed in tensors.This book, and its prequel General Relativity 3, present the clearest, most comprehensible, and most complete introduction to the tensor calculus of differential topology, which Einstein used to explain the cosmos. Derivations that are difficult to find elsewhere, are all ... Read more

    $4.99 USD