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Feynman's tips on physics : reflections, advice, insights, practice : a problem-solving supplement to the Feynman lectures on physics
Feynman, Richard P.
Paper Book
Feynman's Tips on Physics is a delightful collection of Richard P. Feynman's insights and an essential companion to his legendary Feynman Lectures on Physics With characteristic flair, insight, and humor, Feynman discusses topics physics students often struggle with...
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The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory
Greene, B.
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A new edition of the New York Times bestseller--now a three-part Nova special: a fascinating and thought-provoking journey through the mysteries of space, time, and matter. Now with a new preface (not in any other edition) that will review the enormous public...
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The fabric of the cosmos space, time, and the texture of reality
Greene, Brian, 1963-
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From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity?...
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A brief history of time
Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking's book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin--and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe...
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Lost in math how beauty leads physics astray
Hossenfelder, Sabine, 1976- author.
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In this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science. Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN,...
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What if? serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions
Munroe, Randall author, illustrator.
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From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology,...
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What if? 2 additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions
Munroe, Randall, author, illustrator.
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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...
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Cosmos
Sagan, Carl
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This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan’s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting,Cosmosis about science in its...
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