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Atkins' Physical Chemistryby P. W. Atkins, Julio DepaulaISBN 0198700725 (0-19-870072-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atkins' Physical Chemistry'Book summary:This major revision of the world's leading textbook of physical chemistry has maintained its tradition of accessibility but authority and has brought it thoroughly up to date. The new author team has introduced many innovations. There are new or rewritten chapters on the solid state, on molecular interactions, macromolecules, and electron transfer. Almost every chapter has at least one Box showing the relevance of the material to modern chemistry. All the chapters now conclude with a check list which includes definitions and key equations. The authors have paid special attention to the presentation of mathematical derivations and to the physical interpretation of equations. They have also ensured that the text is highly modular, so that it can be used in different sequences, either atoms first or thermodynamics first. The art program has been redrawn and extended, new Discussion questions have been added, and the Further Information sections have been recast to provide the necessary background in mathematics and physics. The text is fully geared to the web, with full media support. SUPPLEMENTS AND SUPPORT MATERIAL: 1. Web site featuring ; Living Graphs (about 150). Dynamic, interactive graphs that allow experimentation and hands-on learning; Web links to sources of data and other information, as referred to in the book.; 2. Student's Solutions Manual containing worked solutions to half the end of chapter exercises and problems in the parent text. ; 3. Instructor's Solutions Manual, FREE to adopters of the parent text, containing worked solutions to the other half of the end of chapter exercises and problems in the parent text. Contains a CD-ROM with all the illustrations from the text, for use in presentations. ; 4. MathCad/Mathematica supplement book with CD-ROM to take all living graphs further. ; NEW TO THIS EDITION: - New co-author Julio de Paula, a biophysical chemist, strengthens the text's coverage of biological applications. - Margin notes provide help with mathematics just where it is needed. - Boxes added to every chapter to cover biological applications, environmental, materials science and chemical engineering. Each box has two problems, and suggestions for further reading. - Important equations and definitions added to the 'key concepts' section of every chapter. - Microprojects used to be separate sections at end of every Part. These (most of them) have been integrated into the appropriate chapter's end-of-chapter exercises. - More help with the mathematical development of derivations: marginal notes are provided, many derivations now include more steps (justifications), the section on mathematical techniques in Further Information sections has been rewritten, as has the Further Information section on concepts of physics. - Fully integrated media support. The new feature of Living Graphs are flagged by an icon in the textbook, and marginal notes refer the reader to the web links to be found on the book's free web site. - The chapters are modular so that they may be read in different orders for different courses. Road Maps are provided that suggest different routes through the text for the following types of course organizations: (a) thermodynamics first, (b) atoms first (quantum mechanics first). - There is a separate section in of end-of-chapter exercises specifically for applications. - End-of-chapter problems for which solutions are provided in the Student's Solutions Manual are now indicated by colour.; MODERNIZATION - More coverage of modern topics throughout the text. ; Some examples, by section of the book:; PART 1: ; Illustrations of partial derivatives added; Added Boxes, more practical and more biological applications; PART 2:; Chapter 14 includes computational chemistry; Enhancements to quantum mechanics coverage: addition of materials science in Chapters 22 and 23; More modern spectroscopy, more computational chemistry; Chapter 21: new chapter on molecular interactions; Chapter 22 on macromolecules emphasizes polymers and biological polymers; PART 3:; Organized to make selective use easier (made more modular); Chapter 29: more modern treatment of electron transfer theory in solutions, biological systems, and solid state; For a complete list of changes to the book since the last edition, see the web site at www oup.com/pchem7 [via]
Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimesby John EarmanISBN 019509591X (0-19-509591-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Basic Quantum Mechanicsby J. L. MartinISBN 0198518161 (0-19-851816-1)
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Black Holes and Relativistic Starsby Robert M. WaldISBN 0226870359 (0-226-87035-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Building Blocks of the Universeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0200710990 (0-200-71099-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Building Scientific Apparatus: A Practical Guide to Design and Constructionby John H. Moore, Michael A. Coplan, Davis C. ChristopherISBN 0201131897 (0-201-13189-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaosby Roger LewinISBN 0226476553 (0-226-47655-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos'Book summary:"Put together one of the world's best science writers with one of the universe's most fascinating subjects and you are bound to produce a wonderful book. . . . The subject of complexity is vital and controversial. This book is important and beautifully done."Stephen Jay Gould[via]
"[Complexity] is that curious mix of complication and organization that we find throughout the natural and human worlds: the workings of a cell, the structure of the brain, the behavior of the stock market, the shifts of political power. . . . It is time science . . . thinks about meaning as well as counting information. . . . This is the core of the complexity manifesto. Read it, think about it . . . but don't ignore it."Ian Stewart, Nature
This second edition has been brought up to date with an essay entitled "On the Edge in the Business World" and an interview with John Holland, author of Emergence: From Chaos to Order.More editions of Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos:
Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Informationby Zurek WojciechISBN 0201515091 (0-201-51509-1)
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Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information: The Proceedings of the 1988 Workshop on Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information Heldby Workshop on Complexity, Entropy, and Physics of Information (1989, Wojciech Hubert ZurekISBN 0201515067 (0-201-51506-7)
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Cosmology: A Very Short Introductionby Peter ColesISBN 019285416X (0-19-285416-X)
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Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animalby Norbert WienerISBN 026273009X (0-262-73009-X)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligenceby George DysonISBN 0201406497 (0-201-40649-7)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence'Book summary:Here's a mesmerizing account of the evolution of machines and thoughts about machines, woven into a story about the evolution of intelligence. Darwin Among the Machines is not so much about how today's intelligence came to be, but about how it may further develop as humanity and computer grow closer together. George Dyson tells the story largely through stories--both historical and legendary--from the lives of scientists and philosophers who paved the way for today's cybernetics revolution, starting with the 17th-century insights of Thomas Hobbes. This book challenges the assumption that nature and machine are opposing forces. Dyson believes them to be allies. [via]
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A Dictionary of Physicsby Alan IsaacsISBN 0192800302 (0-19-280030-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Dictionary of Physicsby John DaintithISBN 0192806289 (0-19-280628-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Physics'Book summary:The revised and updated Fifth Edition of the most popular paperback dictionary of physics available. Containing 32 pages of new entries, and now with biographies of key scientists, A Dictionary of Physics covers all of the most commonly encountered terms and concepts of physics. There are over 3,500 clear and concise entries, including topics such as group theory, particle-beam experiments, radioisotope imaging, and spherical harmonics. Longer feature articles on important topics, such as crystal defects, magnetic resonance imaging, and the solar system are also provided. Chronologies chart discoveries in the main fields of physics, including atomic theory, cosmology, and microscopy. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this is the ideal reference tool for students of physics. [via]
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Die Physikerby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0195009088 (0-19-500908-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion Of Feynman Diagrams In Postwar Physicsby David KaiserISBN 0226422674 (0-226-42267-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Einstein's Universe: Gravity at Work and Playby A. ZeeISBN 0195142853 (0-19-514285-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein's Universe: Gravity at Work and Play'Book summary:On Albert Einstein's seventy-sixth and final birthday, a friend gave him a simple toy made from a broomstick, a brass ball attached to a length of string, and a weak spring. Einstein was delighted: the toy worked on a principle he had conceived fifty years earlier when he was working on his revolutionary theory of gravity--a principle whose implications are still confounding physicists today.
Starting with this winning anecdote, Anthony Zee begins his animated discussion of phenomena ranging from the emergence of galaxies to the curvature of space-time, evidence for the existence of gravity waves, and the shape of the universe in the first nanoseconds of creation and today. Making complex ideas accessible without oversimplifying, Zee leads the reader through the implications of Einstein's theory and its influence on modern physics. His playful and lucid style conveys the excitement of some of the latest developments in physics, and his new Afterword brings things even further up-to-date. [via]More editions of Einstein's Universe: Gravity at Work and Play:
Elementary Particlesby I.S. HughesISBN 0140802770 (0-14-080277-0)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The Elements of Physicsby William R. Phillips, I. S. GrantISBN 0198518781 (0-19-851878-1)
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Emergence: From Chaos to Orderby John Henry HollandISBN 0192862111 (0-19-286211-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emergence: From Chaos to Order'Book summary:"Emergence" is the notion that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. John Holland, a MacArthur Fellow known as the "father of genetic algorithms," says this seemingly simple notion will be at the heart of the development of machines that can think for themselves. And while he claims that he'd rather do science than write about it, this is his second scientific philosophy book intended to increase public understanding of difficult concepts (his first was Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity). One of the questions that Holland says emergence theory can help answer is: can we build systems from which more comes out than was put in? Think of the food replicators in the imaginary future of Star Trek--with some basic chemical building blocks and simple rules, those machines can produce everything from Klingon delicacies to Earl Grey tea. If scientists can understand and apply the knowledge they gather from studying emergent systems, we may soon witness the development of artificial intelligence, nanotech, biological machines, and other creations heretofore confined to science fiction. Using games, molecules, maps, and scientific theories as examples, Holland outlines how emergence works, emphasizing the interrelationships of simple rules and parts in generating a complex whole. Because of the theoretical depth, this book probably won't appeal to the casual reader of popular science, but those interested in delving a little deeper into the future of science and engineering will be fascinated. Holland's writing, while sometimes self-consciously precise, is clear, and he links his theoretical arguments to examples in the real world whenever possible. Emergence offers insight not just to scientific advancement, but across many areas of human endeavor--business, the arts, even the evolution of society and the generation of new ideas. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Engineering Mechanics Staticsby Anthony Bedford, Wallace L. FowlerISBN 0201581930 (0-201-58193-0)
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Experimental Physics: Modern Methodsby Dunlap, R, A.ISBN 0195049497 (0-19-504949-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Experimental Physics: Modern Methods'Book summary:Designed for physics students treating the underlying basis for modern techniques and the devices used, this timely survey describes current experimental methods in a clear and accessible text. This up-to-date volume provides an essential part of undergraduate physics training; until now, students were often expected to learn many of these methods in the laboratory without proper introduction. The broad coverage of available techniques includes discussion of state-of-the-art electronic equipment, as well as such topics as discrete semiconductor devices, signal processing, thermometry, optical components, nuclear instrumentation, and x-ray diffraction methods. Professor Dunlap's text will serve not only as a complete introduction for majors but also as a reference work for technicians throughout a professional career. In addition to tutorial discussions presented, tables of numerical data and constants are included, further enhancing the book as a permanent reference. [via]
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A First Course in Abstract Algebraby John B. Fraleigh, Victor J. KatzISBN 0201763907 (0-201-76390-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A First Course in Abstract Algebra'Book summary:Considered a classic by many, A First Course in Abstract Algebra is an in-depth, introduction to abstract algebra. Focused on groups, rings and fields, this text gives students a firm foundation for more specialized work by emphasizing an understanding of the nature of algebraic structures. The sixth edition of this text continues the tradition of teaching in a classical manner while integrating field theory and a revised Chapter Zero. New exercises were written, and previous exercises were revised and modified. [via]
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A First Course in Chaotic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Experimentby Robert L. DevaneyISBN 0201554062 (0-201-55406-2)
Hardcover, Westview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A First Course in Chaotic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Experiment'Book summary:A First Course in Chaotic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Experiment is the first book to introduce modern topics in dynamical systems at the undergraduate level. Accessible to readers with only a background in calculus, the book integrates both theory and computer experiments into its coverage of contemporary ideas in dynamics. It is designed as a gradual introduction to the basic mathematical ideas behind such topics as chaos, fractals, Newtons method, symbolic dynamics, the Julia set, and the Mandelbrot set, and includes biographies of some of the leading researchers in the field of dynamical systems. Mathematical and computer experiments are integrated throughout the text to help illustrate the meaning of the theorems presented.Chaotic Dynamical Systems Software, Labs 16 is a supplementary laboratory software package, available separately, that allows a more intuitive understanding of the mathematics behind dynamical systems theory. Combined with A First Course in Chaotic Dynamical Systems, it leads to a rich understanding of this emerging field.[via]More editions of A First Course in Chaotic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Experiment:
Gauge Theories of Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactionsby Chris Quigg, David PinesISBN 0201328321 (0-201-32832-1)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0140283382 (0-14-028338-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
Hitler's Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pactby John CornwellISBN 0142004804 (0-14-200480-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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How Experiments Endby Peter Louis GalisonISBN 0226279154 (0-226-27915-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Experiments End'Book summary:Histories of three experimental episodes: the measurement of the gyromagnetic ratio of the electron, the discovery of the mu meson, or muon, and the discovery of weak neutral currents. These studies of actual experiments will provide valuable material for both philosophers and historians of science. [via]
How Is Quantum Field Theory Possible?by Sunny Y. AuyangISBN 0195093453 (0-19-509345-3)
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Image and Logic : A Material Culture of Microphysicsby Peter L. GalisonISBN 0226279170 (0-226-27917-0)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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In the Wake of Chaos: Unpredictable Order in Dynamical Systemsby Stephen H. KellertISBN 0226429768 (0-226-42976-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Wake of Chaos: Unpredictable Order in Dynamical Systems'Book summary:Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention. What began as the discovery of randomness in simple physical systems has become a widespread fascination with "chaotic" models of everything from business cycles to brainwaves to heart attacks. But what exactly does this explosion of new research into chaotic phenomena mean for our understanding of the world? In this timely book, Stephen Kellert takes the first sustained look at the broad intellectual and philosophical questions raised by recent advances in chaos theoryits implications for science as a source of knowledge and for the very meaning of that knowledge itself.[via]More editions of In the Wake of Chaos: Unpredictable Order in Dynamical Systems:
Introduction to Special Relativityby Wolfgang RindlerISBN 0198539525 (0-19-853952-5)
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Introductory Statistical Mechanicsby Roger Bowley, Mariana SanchezISBN 0198505760 (0-19-850576-0)
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Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcererby Michael WhiteISBN 0201483017 (0-201-48301-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer'Book summary:Science writer Michael White's subtitle, The Last Sorcerer, echoes John Maynard Keynes's assertion in 1942 that Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was not the Olympian rationalist portrayed by his worshipful early biographers. Newton was a great scientist, the author acknowledges; he was also an "obsessive, driven mystic," deeply involved in the pseudoscience of alchemy, subscriber to a heretical sect of Christianity, and damaged survivor of childhood traumas that rendered him a difficult, egotistical, quarrelsome adult. White makes recent research accessible to the general reader in lucid prose that knocks the academic dust off a towering historical figure. [via]
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Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetryby F. E. CloseISBN 019866267X (0-19-866267-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry'Book summary:Is the universe perfectly balanced? Physicist Frank Close looks at symmetry and the deep structures of the universe in his luminescent book Lucifer's Legacy. Matter and antimatter, positive and negative charge, even the curious properties of quarks all seem to be arranged in diametrically opposed pairs (or triplets, when you consider zero-state properties like neutral charge). Yet we plainly live in a skewed environment--we can't find antimatter unless we make it, almost all of our proteins are left-handed, and there are 10 Windows machines for every Mac. Is this asymmetry essential for life? Is it in fact a necessary consequence of creation? Dr. Close examines these questions and more in intimate but not obsessive detail, showing that life as we know it couldn't exist without a few crucial imbalances. The question of whether or not we just got lucky with this universe is due to be answered in 2005, when CERN, where Close works, will test theories relating to the Big Bang. The author has a gift for explaining the intricacies of particle physics in terms that lay readers can easily grasp and even come to love. His poetic sensibilities, which frame the book and give it its title (from the statue of Lucifer in Paris's Tuileries gardens), reflect the human and cosmic mysteries inherent both in the nature of physics and the work of physicists. There's a wee bit of maths and geometry herein, but not so much to scare off the numerophobic; in fact, the cogent explanations and illustrations may win Close a few converts to hard science. In the final analysis, Lucifer's Legacy carries a hint of irony: it is such a thoroughly good read that you'll find yourself hunting in vain for flaws. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Mathematical Physicsby E. ButkovISBN 0201007274 (0-201-00727-4)
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The Mathematical Theory of Black Holesby S. ChandrasekharISBN 0198503709 (0-19-850370-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Microelectronic Circuitsby Adel S. Sedra, K.C. SmithISBN 0195142527 (0-19-514252-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Microelectronic Circuits'Book summary:Microelectronic Circuits, Fourth Edition is an extensive revision of the classic text by Adel S. Sedra and K. C. Smith. The primary objective of this text remains the development of the student's ability to analyze and design electronic circuits, both analog and digital, discrete and integrated. Fundamental developments in modern technology, particularly the increased emphasis on integrated circuits and the profusion of advances in digital electronics, require that engineers today be aptly equipped with knowledge of these concepts and techniques. In this edition, the authors present these concepts and techniques earlier on in the text and in greater detail than in previous editions. Features A Digital Electronics Emphasis This edition fully integrates the fundamental concepts of digital electronics into the first five chapters, and also devotes two complete chapters (13 and 14) to digital electronics at the end of the text. These provide a complete introduction to both analog and digital principles for a modern introductory course on microelectronic circuits. The MOSFET The material on MOSFET has been entirely rewritten to reflect the shift toward integrated circuit technology and the vast number of changes in MOS IC design. Device Physics...Just in Time Sedra/Smith integrates device physics into the chapters as needed and where appropriate. SPICE: Not just how, but why and when SPICE has been incorporated not only at the end of the appropriate device chapters, but also at the end of most chapters throughout the text. A Complete Support Package New CD! Now with KC's Problems and Solutions, which contains 600 problems and solutions for student practice. Also includes Interactive Examples, EDN Design Ideas, and Electronics Workbench Multisim 6, with 30 demo circuits and 100 additional circuits for use with the full or student versions. The CD runs on Windows with minimal memory requirements. ** World Wide Web site http://www.sedrasmith. [via]
Microelectronic Circuits/International Editionby Adel S. SedraISBN 0195103696 (0-19-510369-6)
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Monsters in the Skyby Paolo MaffeiISBN 0262131536 (0-262-13153-6)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Multiple Exposures: Chronicles of the Radiation Age/301088by Catherine CaufieldISBN 0226097854 (0-226-09785-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Newton's Principia for the Common Readerby S. ChandrasekharISBN 019852675X (0-19-852675-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Newton's Principia for the Common Reader'Book summary:Representing a decade's work from one of the world's most distinguished physicists, this major publication is, as far as is known, the first comprehensive analysis of Newton's Principia without recourse to secondary sources. Chandrasekhar analyses some 150 propositions which form a direct chain leading to Newton's formulation of his universal law of gravitation. In each case, Newton's proofs are arranged in a linear sequence of equations and arguments, avoiding the need to unravel the necessarily convoluted style of Newton's connected prose. In almost every case, a modern version of the proofs is given to bring into sharp focus the beauty, clarity, and breathtaking economy of Newton's methods. This book will stimulate great interest and debate among the scientific community, illuminating the brilliance of Newton's work under the steady gaze of Chandrasekhar's rare perception. [via]
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The Nine Numbers of the Cosmosby Michael Rowan-RobinsonISBN 0192862162 (0-19-286216-2)
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Nuclear Reactionsby W. M. GibsonISBN 0140801715 (0-14-080171-5)
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Perfect Symmetry: The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullereneby Jim BaggottISBN 0198557892 (0-19-855789-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perfect Symmetry: The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene'Book summary:This book tells the fascinating story of the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a perfectly symmetrical soccer-ball shaped molecule composed of 60 carbon atoms. This new molecule, one of a large family of carbon cage molecules called "fullerenes"--represents a new form of carbon, complementing such well-known materials as diamond and graphite. Its discovery has revolutionized our understanding of carbon, once the most familiar elements. It has heralded a new chemistry, a new range of high-temperature superconductors and some marvelous new concepts in the architecture of large carbon structures. In this account, prize-winning science writer Jim Baggott tells the compelling story of buckminsterfullerene, from its natural occurrence in the cold chemistry of interstellar clouds to its accidental, stunning creation in a modern chemistry laboratory, and the subsequent development of one of today's fastest-growing scientific fields. By combining a lucid and entertaining style with scientific accuracy, the author has written a book that will appeal to general readers and chemists alike. [via]
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Physical Chemistryby P. W. AtkinsISBN 0198557302 (0-19-855730-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Physical Fluid Dynamicsby D.J. TrittonISBN 0198544936 (0-19-854493-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Physicistsby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0224009133 (0-224-00913-3)
Hardcover, Cape
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Physicsby Marcelo Alonso, Edward J. FinnISBN 0201565188 (0-201-56518-8)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Physics'Book summary:Approaches the subject of physics from a contemporary viewpoint, integrating the Newtonian, relativistic and quantum description of nature. The text covers all the traditional topics of physics with greater emphasis on the conservation laws, the concepts of field and waves and the atomic view of matter. [via]
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Physics of the Atomby M. Russell Wehr, James A. Richards, Thomas W. AdairISBN 0201085879 (0-201-08587-9)
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Plasma Dynamicsby R.O. DendyISBN 0198520417 (0-19-852041-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Probability 1: The Book That Proves There Is Life in Outer Spaceby Amir D. AczelISBN 0156010801 (0-15-601080-1)
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Probability 1: Why There Must Be Intelligent Life in the Universeby Amir D. AczelISBN 0151003769 (0-15-100376-9)
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Quantum Chemistryby Ira N. LevineISBN 0205127703 (0-205-12770-3)
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Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist Viewby Bas C. Van FraassenISBN 0198239807 (0-19-823980-7)
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The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worldsby Jeffrey Alan BarrettISBN 0199247439 (0-19-924743-9)
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The Quest for Unity: The Adventure of Physicsby Marc Lachieze-Rey, Etienne Klein, Axel ReisingerISBN 019512085X (0-19-512085-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Quest for Unity: The Adventure of Physics'Book summary:What could quantum mechanics have in common with the philosophical musings of the ancient Greeks? In our age of multimillion-dollar supercolliders, it's hard to imagine that modern physics owes anything to thinkers who predate Descartes. But French physicists Etienne Klein and March Lachieze-Rey see an unbroken thread running from antiquity to the present--an ongoing search, throughout the history of science, for unity.
In The Search for Unity the authors reveal how the quest for the One has driven all the great breakthroughs in science. They show how the Greeks searched for the fundamental element in all things; how Galileo unified the earth with the heavens, by discovering valleys and mountains on the moon; and how Newton created a single theory to describe the motion of the celestial bodies. With unequaled clarity, they explore the work of the most famous unifier of all, Albert Einstein, who melded space and time into a combined space-time concept, and then embarked on an unsuccessful search for a single theory to explain all the physical laws of the universe. Throughout the book, the authors stress the esthetic motives of scientists, how they recognize truth through apprehension of mathematical beauty. And in tracing the quest for unity up to the present day, they illuminate the bizarre workings of quantum mechanics and the sticky definition of reality itself at the subatomic level.
A grand unification of all interactions still awaits discovery--but as Klein and Lachieze-Rey show, the search itself is as fascinating as the end result may ever be. [via]More editions of The Quest for Unity: The Adventure of Physics:
Relativity, Gravitation And Cosmology: A Basic Introductionby Ta-Pei ChengISBN 0198529570 (0-19-852957-0)
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The Scientific Revolutionby Steven ShapinISBN 0226750213 (0-226-75021-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Sears and Zemansky's University Physics: Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Waves Acoustics Chapters 1-21by Hugh D. Young, Roger A. FreedmanISBN 0201643944 (0-201-64394-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Sidereus Nuncius or the Sidereal Messengerby Albert Van Helden, Galileo GalileiISBN 0226279030 (0-226-27903-0)
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Sidereus Nuncius or the Sidereal Messengerby Galileo GalileiISBN 0226279022 (0-226-27902-2)
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biologyby Ray KurzweilISBN 0143037889 (0-14-303788-9)
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Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holesby Robert M. WaldISBN 0226870294 (0-226-87029-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes'Book summary:Writing for the general reader or student, Wald has completely revised and updated this highly regarded work to include recent developments in black hole physics and cosmology. Nature called the first edition "a very readable and accurate account of modern relativity physics for the layman within the unavoidable constraint of almost no mathematics. . . . A well written, entertaining and authoritative book."[via]More editions of Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes:
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Spacetime and Electromagnetism: An Essay on the Philosophy of the Special Theory of Relativityby Lucas, Peter E. HodgsonISBN 0198520387 (0-19-852038-7)
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The Story of Spinby Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Shinichiro TomonagaISBN 0226807940 (0-226-80794-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Spin'Book summary:All atomic particles have a particular "spin," analogous to the earth's rotation on its axis. The quantum mechanical reality underlying spin is complex and still poorly understood. Sin-itiro Tomonaga's The Story of Spin remains the most complete and accessible treatment of spin, and is now available in English translation. Tomonaga tells the tale of the pioneers of physics and their difficult journey toward an understanding of the nature of spin and its relationship to statistics. His clear unfolding of the tale of spin is invaluable to students of physics, chemistry, and astronomy, and his description of the historical development of spin will interest historians and philosophers of science.[via]
"This piece of the history of physics will provide excellent and exciting reading. . . . It also provides the personal touch of an expert in the field that is so often lacking in the physics literature. I recommend it very highly."Fritz Rohrlich, Physics Today
Sin-itiro Tomonaga was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965. 
Today and Tomorrow and ..by Isaac AsimovISBN 0200722069 (0-200-72206-9)
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Travels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Timeby Robin Le PoidevinISBN 0198752555 (0-19-875255-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time'Book summary:Space and time are the most fundamental features of our experience of the world, and yet they are also the most perplexing. Does time really flow, or is that simply an illusion? Did time have a beginning? What does it mean to say that time has a direction? Does space have boundaries, or is it infinite? Is change really possible? Could space and time exist in the absence of any objects or events? What, in the end, are space and time? Do they really exist, or are they simply the constructions of our minds?
Robin Le Poidevin provides a clear, witty, and stimulating introduction to these deep questions and many other mind-boggling puzzles and paradoxes. He gives a vivid sense of the difficulties raised by our ordinary ideas about space and time, but he also gives us the basis to think about these problems independently, avoiding large amounts of jargon and technicality. His book is an invitation to think philosophically rather than a sustained argument for particular conclusions, but Le Poidevin does advance and defend a number of controversial views. He argues, for example, that time does not actually flow, that it is possible for space and time to be both finite and yet be without boundaries, and that causation is the key to an understanding of one of the deepest mysteries of time: its direction.
Drawing on a variety of vivid examples from science, history, and literature, Travels in Four Dimensions brings to life some of the most profound questions imaginable. [via]More editions of Travels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time:
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University Physics: Volume 1by Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, T.R. Sandin, A. Lewis FordISBN 0201603225 (0-201-60322-5)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Ideaby Charles Seife, Matt ZimetISBN 0140296476 (0-14-029647-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea'Book summary:The seemingly impossible Zen task--writing a book about nothing--has a loophole: people have been chatting, learning, and even fighting about nothing for millennia. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by noted science writer Charles Seife, starts with the story of a modern battleship stopped dead in the water by a loose zero, then rewinds back to several hundred years BCE. Some empty-headed genius improved the traditional Eastern counting methods immeasurably by adding zero as a placeholder, which allowed the genesis of our still-used decimal system. It's all been uphill from there, but Seife is enthusiastic about his subject; his synthesis of math, history, and anthropology seduces the reader into a new fascination with the most troubling number.
Why did the Church reject the use of zero? How did mystics of all stripes get bent out of shape over it? Is it true that science as we know it depends on this mysterious round digit? Zero opens up these questions and lets us explore the answers and their ramifications for our oh-so-modern lives. Seife has fun with his format, too, starting with chapter 0 and finishing with an appendix titled "Make Your Own Wormhole Time Machine." (Warning: don't get your hopes up too much.) There are enough graphs and equations to scare off serious numerophobes, but the real story is in the interactions between artists, scientists, mathematicians, religious and political leaders, and the rest of us--it seems we really do have nothing in common. --Rob Lightner [via]
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