After the huge national and international success of 'Longitude' and 'Gallileo's Daughter', Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system.
This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About How to Destroy a Black Hole, the story of whether the universe's most extreme objects can ever truly be destroyed.
Diagnose and correct optical aberrations with rigorous theoretical depth Aberrations in optical systems distort images and degrade instrument performance, yet thorough analytical treatment of these imperfections remains scarce.
The Cosmos: A Complete Book on the Universe, Existence, and Meaning is an expansive yet deeply human exploration of reality, from the birth of the universe to the inner life of consciousness and the enduring search for purpose.
In a world overwhelmed by information, opinions, and constant mental activity, Thermodynamics of Thought offers a radically different perspective: the mind does not suffer because it thinks too much—it suffers because thought does not get to finish.
Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a whole.
El libro perfecto para descubrir, de forma entretenida y rigurosa, uno de los conceptos esenciales (pero menos conocidos) de la física contemporánea: la entropía.
Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a whole.
Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a whole.
Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a whole.
This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About the Timescape Model, a bold alternative to dark energy and the standard story of cosmic acceleration.
This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About Quantum Biology, the emerging science of how life may use the strange rules of the quantum world.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, NEW SCIENTIST, BBC FOCUS, INDEPENDENT AND WASHINGTON POST 'A rollicking tour of the wildest physics.
This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About Lambda Cold Dark Matter (Lambda-CDM), the standard model cosmologists use to explain the history, structure, and expansion of the universe.
If you find yourself peering up at the sky as a plane roars past, there is a good chance you have caught the aviation bug and are fascinated by anything that flies.
Die Möglichkeiten von Wissenschaft und ErkenntnisEinsteins Klassiker von 1936 bietet nicht nur eine prägnante Auseinandersetzung mit seinem eigenen Werk wie der Relativitätstheorie und seiner Sichtweise der Quantentheorie, sondern auch der Geschichte der Physik insgesamt.
This book is hours of logical thinking and in-depth, scientifically rigorous study interspersed with moments of dazzling, imaginative madness and intellectual extremism.
The Trouble with Physics is a groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity through quantum mechanics to the strange and bizarre predictions of string theory, full of unseen dimensions and multiple universes.
From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science 'Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his scientific creativity, originality, and power.
