Chaos: Making a New Science
 Amazon.com Review: Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, resides in this exclusive category. In Chaos, he [... more]
$20.00
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Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and ...
A fundamental law that is applicable to almost everything: Two books, both written in the late 1940s stand out as contributing much to our understanding of the world around us. One of these is "Cybernetics" by Weiner and the other is "The [... more]
$27.00
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The Universe in a Nutshell
Amazon.com Review: Stephen Hawking, science's first real rock star, may be the least-read bestselling author in history--it's no secret that many people who own A Brief History of Time have never finished it. Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell aims to [... more]
$35.00
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The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the ...
Amazon.com Review: With a title inspired as much by Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series as Einstein, The Theory of Everything delivers almost as much as it promises. Transcribed from Stephen Hawking's Cambridge Lectures, the slim volume may not present a [... more]
$19.95
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The Holographic Universe
Intriguing new scientific model: I at first was very dubious about reading this book. I study neuroscience, and to think of the brain as a hologram seemed at first insulting to me. But after getting into it, I became more and more fascinated by this idea [... more]
$14.00
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The Physics of Star Trek
Amazon.com Review: Sure, we all know Star Trek is fiction, but warp drives and transporters and holodecks don't seem altogether implausible. Are any of these futuristic inventions fundamentally outlawed by physics as we understand it today? The Physics [... more]
$13.00
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces-Book/CD Package
Learn Relativity from the maestro Richard Feynman himself: In the introduction to this book, Roger Penrose, another great theoretical physicist of our times, states that "Relativity is not airy-fairy philosophy, nor is space-time mere mathematical [... more]
$55.00
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel ...
Amazon.com Review: How many dimensions do you live in? Three? Maybe that's all your commonsense sense perception perceives, but there is growing and compelling evidence to suggest that we actually live in a universe of ten real dimensions. Kaku has [... more]
$15.95
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The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of ...
Have to disagree: This is NOT a book for non-physicists. I have a doctorate in Dentistry and began reading the book, thinking it would become less obtuse. Ten pages later, I resorted to flipping each page in the hope that I would find something that made [... more]
$16.95
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How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life
Great book on a number of different levels: I'm a professor of engineering, and decided to use this book as the primary textbook to give a basic idea, for humanities and liberal arts students, of what engineers do. What a great decision! The first part [... more]
$98.00
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Inquiry Into Physics (with InfoTrac)
THIS is a book?!: I didn't expect it to be hole punched... and NOT binded... so i had to put it in a loose leaf binder... you're just buying a stack of papers... Excellent Physics 101 book: This book was required for one of my college classes. It [... more]
$108.95
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Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
Perhaps the best QFT book I encountered so far: I am a graduate student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, taking my first steps in the world of QFT, SUSY and string theory. I am now reading QFT in a nutshell and wanted to say that I really [... more]
$65.00
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