THREE BIG BANGS MATTER ENERGY LIFE MIND by Holmes Rolston III
$74.00 AUD
Category: Science
By dividing the creation of matter, energy, life, and mind into three big bangs, Holmes Rolston III brings into focus a history of the universe that respects both scientific discovery and the potential presence of an underlying intelligence. Matter-energy appears, initially in simpler forms but with a r ...Show more
SAME AND NOT THE SAME by Roald Hoffmann; Roald Hoffmann
$87.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: George B Pegram Lecture (COUP) Ser.
Positioned at the crossroads of the physical and biological sciences, chemistry deals with neither the infinitely small, nor the infinitely large, nor directly with life. So it is sometimes thought of as dull, the way things in the middle often are. But this middle ground is precisely where human beings ...Show more
Our Magnetic EarthThe Science of Geomagnetism by Ronald T. Merrill
$42.95 AUD
Category: Science
For the general public, magnetism often seems more the province of new age quacks, movie mad scientists, and grade-school teachers than an area of actual, ongoing scientific inquiry. But as Ronald T. Merrill reveals in Our Magnetic Earth, geomagnetism really is an enduring, vibrant area of science, one ...Show more
FERMILAB PHYSICS THE FRONTIER AND MEGASCIENCE by Lillian Hoddeson; Adrienne W. Kolb; Catherine Westfall
$99.00 AUD
Category: Science
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for forty years. Fermilab is the first history of this laboratory and of its powerful accelerators told from the point of view of the people who built and used them for scie ...Show more
Cracking the Einstein Code : Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics by Fulvio Melia
$43.95 AUD
Category: Science
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time. But for more than four decades after its publication, the theory remained largely a curiosity for scientists; however accurate it seemed, Einstein's mathematical code - represen ...Show more
GRAVITYS GHOST SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENT by Harry Collins
$105.00 AUD
Category: Science
In theory, at least, gravitational waves do exist. We are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation, which is generated when stars explode or collide and a portion of their mass becomes energy that ripples out like a disturbance on the surface of a serene pond. But unfortunately no gravitational wave ...Show more
EARLY UNIVERSE by Edward Kolb; Michael Turner
$119.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Frontiers in Physics Ser.
The Early Universe has become the standard reference on forefront topics in cosmology, particularly to the early history of the Universe. Subjects covered include primordial nubleosynthesis, baryogenesis, phases transitions, inflation, dark matter, and galaxy formation, relics such as axions, neutrinos ...Show more
A Dictionary of Physics by John Daintith
$34.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference S.
This is the most popular dictionary of physics available. It contains over 3,800 entries covering all commonly encountered physics terms and concepts, as well as terms from the related fields of astronomy, astrophysics, and physical chemistry. With 200 new entries and expanded coverage in areas includin ...Show more
A Dictionary of Physics by John Daintith
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
This essential reference work is the most popular paperback dictionary of physics available. It contains over 3,500 clear and concise entries, covering all commonly encountered physics terms and concepts, including terms relating to astronomy and astrophysics, and terms relating to physical chemistry. O ...Show more
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Nothing seems more real than time passing. We experience life as a succession of moments. But just as some of us see God as eternal, so physicists understand the truths of mathematics and the laws of nature as constant, transcending time. These laws dictate how the future will evolve: there is no freedo ...Show more
Quantum Theory by J.C. Polkinghorne
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain u ...Show more
Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives by Michio Kaku
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science
'A whirlwind tour of technological possiblity' New Scientist We all wish we could predict the future, but most of us don't know enough about the science that makes it possible. That's why Michio Kaku decided to talk to the people who really know - the visionaries who are already inventing the future in ...Show more