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Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman - Adventures of a Curious Character

Subtitled, "Adventures Of A Curious Character As Told To Ralph Leighton". Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend...

Six Not-so-easy Pieces - Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time

Six lectures, all regarding the most revolutionary discovery in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's Theory of Relativity. No one--not e...

Six Easy Pieces - Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

The six easiest chapters from Feynman's landmark work, "Lectures on Physics"-- specifically designed for the general, non-scientist reader.

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy ...

The World According to Physics

An illuminating look at what physics reveals about the world, from the BBC presenter and bestselling author. Using examples and thought-p...

Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics

A complement to the "Feynman Lectures On Physics", which has been used for teaching since the 1960s. A hands-on introduction to all the m...

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I - The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat

"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The ...

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II - The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The ...

Complexity in Nature and Society - From Dancing Molecules to Collapsing Societies

Global warming, biodiversity, water security, migration and many other challenges of the 21st century urges us to shift from the traditio...

The Feynman Lectures on Physics. The New Millennium Edition

Eagerly awaited by scientists and academics worldwide, the complete series of Feynman's landmark Lectures on Physics

Physics for You - Fifth Edition for All GCSE Examinations

Covering all GCSE specifications, this tried and tested series has been fully updated to match the new (9-1) GCSE Physics specifications ...

Brilliance in Exile - The Diaspora of Hungarian Scientists from John von Neumann to Katalin Karikó

By addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in Exile ...

Feynman Lectures on Physics 3: Quantum Mechanics

"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The ...

The Universe

The world's first and only guide to the Universe. The follow-up to our best-selling The World has been developed with NASA and is the wor...

Fundamentals - Ten Keys to Reality

One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical w...

The Cambridge Double Star Atlas

The Cambridge Double Star Atlas is back! It is the first and only atlas of physical double stars that can be viewed with amateur astronom...

The world treasury of physics, astronomy and mathematics

Albert Einstein-The Man and His Theories

Principles & Practice of Physics, Global Edition

Principles & Practice of Physics, Volume 1 (Chapters 1-21), Global Edition

For courses in introductorycalculus-based physics. For a strong, deep, and fundamentallysimple understanding of physics Eric MazurGÇÖsgro...

Conceptual Physics, Global Edition

Thistitle is a Pearson Global Edition. The editorial team at Pearson has workedclosely with educators around the world to include content...

The Physics Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

How do magnets generate electricity? What is antimatter? Is time travel possible? Discover the answers to these and over 90 other big que...

Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe

"How patterns--from diagrams of spacetime to particle trails revealed by supercolliders--offer clues to the fundamental workings of the p...

Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics, Global Edition

For courses in introductory calculus-based physics. A research-driven approach to physics Physics for Scientists and Engineers incorporat...

Physics for Scientists & Engineers with Modern Physics, Global Edition

This title is a Pearson Global Edition. Theeditorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators around the world toinclude content...

A Mathematical Introduction to Conformal Field Theory

The first part of this book gives a detailed, self-contained and mathematically rigorous exposition of classical conformal symmetry in n ...

Number Theory in Science and Communication - With Applications in Cryptography, Physics, Digital Information, Computing, and Self-Similarity

"Number Theory in Science and Communication" is a well-known introduction for non-mathematicians to this fascinating and useful branch of...

Covariant Physics - From Classical Mechanics to General Relativity and Beyond

A textbook for 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students using the fundamental principle of covariance as a basis for studying classical me...

Diffusion Under Confinement - A Journey Through Counterintuition

This book offers the reader a journey through the counterintuitive nature of Brownian motion under confinement. Diffusion is a universal ...

Cryogenic Safety - A Guide to Best Practice in the Lab and Workplace

This book describes the current state of the art in cryogenic safety best practice, helping the reader to work with cryogenic systems and...

Einstein - A Biography

Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most famous for his theory of relativity, which...

Cambridge IGCSE(TM) Physics

We are working with Cambridge Assessment International Education to gain endorsement for this forthcoming title.

Schaum's Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes more than 700 ful...

Polymers Near Surfaces: Conformation Properties and Relation to Critical Phenomena

This book gives an introduction to the conformation properties near surfaces of long flexible polymer chains in extreme dilution. These p...

Geometry of Black Holes

Black holes present one of the most fascinating predictions of Einstein's general relativity, with strong evidence of their existence thr...

Pythagoras's Trousers - God, Physics, and the Gender War

Here is a fresh, astute social and cultural history of physics, from ancient Greece to our own time. From its inception, Margaret Werthei...

Physics I for Dummies

An easy-to-follow guide to introductory physics, from the Big Bang to relativity All science, technology, engineering, and math majors in...

University Physics with Modern Physics

For courses in calculus-based physics. Practice makes perfect: Guided practice helps students develop into expert problem solvers Practic...

Matter and Interactions, Volume 2 - Electric and Magnetic Interactions

Matter and Interactions, Volume II offers a modern curriculum for introductory physics (calculus-based). It presents physics the way prac...

Quantum Measurement - Theory and Practice

This book adopts a novel, physics-first approach to quantum measurement, using physical experiments as the basis to describe the underlyi...

Einstein at Work on Unified Field Theory - The Five-Dimensional Einstein-Bergmann Approach

This book meticulously examines over one hundred documents of research notes by Albert Einstein, many of which were previously unidentifi...

Modern Classical Physics - Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics

"Remarkable for its scope and authority, this text offers a new vision of the 'theoretical minimum' of classical physics that all physici...

IB Physics Course Book 2014 Edition - Oxford IB Diploma Programme

The most comprehensive match to the 2014 Physics syllabus, this completely revised edition gives you unrivalled support for the concept-b...

Quantum Gravity

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of relativity are at the centre of modern theoretical physics, yet, the consistent unification of bo...

Machine Learning with Neural Networks - An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers

Modern introduction to machine learning with neural networks. Key principles of the topic are described alongside cutting-edge applications.

Laws: Rigidity and Dynamics

Laws: are they a human invention or are they independent and indifferent to our existence? Are they there to be discovered, dictated, and...

Physics, Global Edition

The Elegant Universe - Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

With a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as graceful as the theories it so deftly explains, The Elegant Universe remains the u...

Contemporary Quantum Mechanics in Practice - Problems and Solutions

"This book introduces the contemporary cutting-edge research in quantum mechanics through problems and solutions based on topics rarely c...

Nankai Symposium on Mathematical Dialogues - Celebrating the 110th Anniversary of the Birth of Prof. S.-S. Chern

This volume is the proceedings of a special conference dedicated to the legacy of Prof. S.-S. Chern, virtually held at the Chern Institut...

Traffic and Granular Flow '22

This book gathers contributions on a variety of flowing collective systems. While primarily focusing on pedestrian dynamics, it also refl...

Mathematical Physics and Its Interactions - In Honor of the 60th Birthday of Tohru Ozawa, Tokyo, Japan, August 2021

This publication comprises research papers contributed by the speakers, primarily based on their planned talks at the meeting titled 'Mat...

Statistics of Extremes and Records in Random Sequences

This book develops the theory of rare events for both classical uncorrelated as well as correlated sequences in terms of simple models an...

Handbook of Exact Solutions to the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations (Second Edition)

Astronomical Python - An introduction to modern scientific programming

Computational Physics with R

Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics

Steven Weinberg shares his candid thoughts, in his own words, on theoretical physics and cosmology, along with personal anecdotes and rec...

A Whirlwind History of the Universe and Mankind - From the Big Bang to the Higgs Boson

This book is an essential read for everyone who is curious about how we humans came to exist and interested in understanding the science ...

Dynamical Properties of Baryon Resonances in the Holographic QCD

This book focuses on the study of the dynamical properties of hadron resonances, especially their transition processes by electromagnetic...

Nobel Lectures in Physics (2016-2020)

This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the Nobel laureates, together with their biographies and the presentation ...