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1	Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein This book is a history of nuclear weapons. From their initial theoretical development at the start of the twentieth century to the recent tests in North Korea, Jeremy Bernstein seeks to describe the basic science of nuclear weaponry at each point in the narrative. At the same time, he offers accounts and anecdotes of the personalities involved, ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $15.54! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Hitler's uranium club : the secret recordings at Farm Hall more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein From April through December of 1945, ten of Nazi Germany's greatest nuclear physicists were detained by Allied military and intelligence services in a kind of gilded cage at Farm Hall, an English country manor near Cambridge. The physicists knew the Reich had failed to develop an atomic bomb, and they soon learned, from a BBC radio report on ... see all copies from $7.36! new only from $12.39! \| first editions
3	Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein As a former colleague of Oppenheimer's, Jeremy Bernstein has written a biographical profile that is both personal and historical, bringing the reader close to the life and workings of an extraordinary and controversial man. Without Oppenheimer's totally remarkable leadership at Los Alamos, the atomic bomb would not have happened, and World War II ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.30! \| first editions
4	In the Himalayas: Journeys Through Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein An updated edition of a New Yorker writer's profile of these mysterious lands. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.54! \| first editions
5	Albert Einstein: And the Frontiers of Physics more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein Albert Einstein was considered to be a dreamy child without an especially promising future. Later in life he remembered two instances from his childhood - his fascination with a compass shown to him by his father when he was five, and his introduction to geometry - that may have been the first signs of what was to come. This lively biography ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.95! \| first editions
6	Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein When plutonium was first manufactured at Berkeley in the spring of 1941, there was so little of it that it was not visible to the naked eye. It took a year to accumulate enough so that one could actually see it. Now there is so much that we don't know what to do to get rid of it. We have created a monster. The history of plutonium is as strange as ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $19.95! \| SVS
7	Modern Physics more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein, Paul M Fishbane, Stephen G Gasiorowicz For sophomore-level courses in modern physics. This comprehensive text provides a clear, correct, and up-to-date introduction and survey of the topics of importance to tomorrow's engineers and scientists. The presentation includes the description of the history of the topics, to show students how we got to where we are; it stresses the importance ... see all copies from $27.99! new only from $27.99! \| SVS
8	Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein The first new biography of Warren Hastings for 25 years Posterity has remembered Warren Hastings not for his career but for its aftermath. At the end of the eighteenth century he was indicated for "high crimes and misdemeanours", and subjected to the longest and most costly impeachment in British history. But he was also, more than anyone else, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The wildest dreams of Kew: a profile of Nepal more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.99! \| first editions
10	Quantum Profiles more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein For the prominent science writer Jeremy Bernstein, the profile is the most congenial way of communicating science. Here, in what he labels a "series of conversations carried on in the readers behalf and my own," he evokes the tremendous intellectual excitement of the world of modern physics, especially the quantum revolution. Drawing on his well ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.97! \| first editions
11	Science Observed: Essays Out of My Mind more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.90! \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Elusive Neutrino more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Greek Origins 19th Century Revival The Electron Isotopes Wave Character of the Electron Spin The Neutron Transformation of Particles JUST GIVE THE NEWS The Photon Electromagnetic Properties Interactions Mass Spin HOW DO YOU KNOW? Experimental Method Conservation Laws Quantitative Study of Radioactive Nuclei Decay Paradox of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.84! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Mountain Passages more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein see all copies from $1.99! new only from $60.84! \| first editions \| SVS
14	The analytical engine : computers--past, present, and future more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein Discusses the history of electronic computers; men important to their development; and their design, relation to the human brain, and service to science and industry. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
15	Three Degrees Above Zero: Bell Labs in the Information Age more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.55! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Experiencing science more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	A Theory for Everything more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein Here are fifteen pieces on the history and personalities of physics and related fields, from the well-known physicist and essayist Jeremy Bernstein. The pieces in this collection include profiles of Niels Bohr, Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, the linguist Hans Eberstark, and Julian Schwinger; essays on thought experiments, Einstein's scientific legacy ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.47! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Hans Bethe, Prophet of Energy more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19	Einstein more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein Future generations may well refer to the first half of the 20th century as the "age of Einstein" because of his outstanding contribution to modern thought. In this book the author approaches Einstein's career through the three basic themes in his work - the special theory of relativity, the general theory of relativity and gravitation and the ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
20	The Life It Brings: One Physicist's Beginnings more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein The noted physicist and author retraces the idiosyncratic path that led him to a life in science. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Secrets of the Old One: Einstein, 1905 more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein Beginning on the 18th of March, 1905, at approximately eight week intervals, the noted German physics journal "Annalen der Physik" received three hand-written manuscripts from a relatively unknown patent examiner in Bern. The patent examiner was the twenty-six year old Albert Einstein and the three papers would set the agenda for twentieth century ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe more books like this by Bernstein This graduate/research level text is a self-contained exposition of the applications of kinetic theory to basic problems in modern cosmology, such as the role of stable and unstable massive neutrinos and the theory of cosmological helium production. There has been rapid development of the theory of the origin and evolution of the universe in ... see all copies from $17.94! new only from $32.64! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos: Writings on Science more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein A collection of pieces by the noted "New Yorker" science writer Jeremy Bernstein, this book includes pieces from the "New Yorker" as well as many others published in smaller journals and two new pieces. Among the great scientists discussed are Alan Turing, Primo Levi and Edwin Land. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.95! \| first editions
24	The Life It Brings more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein The engrossing account of how a boy who grew up more interested in jazz than science became obsessed with physics and relativity during his first year at Harvard. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
25	Ascent: of the invention of mountain climbing & its practice. more books like this by Jeremy Bernstein see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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