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1	Einstein: His Life and Universe more books like this by Walter Isaacson By the author of the acclaimed bestseller 'Benjamin Franklin', this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a ... see all copies from $2.75! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character more books like this by Richard Phillips Feynman, PH.D. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustoble combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high ... see all copies from $2.34! new only from $7.72! \| first editions \| SVS
3	American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer more books like this by Kai Bird, Martin J Sherwin "American Prometheus" is a rich evocation of America in mid-century and a compelling portrait of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, a man shaped by, or helped to shape, its major events--the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. see all copies from $4.55! new only from $10.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Angels & Demons: Special Illustrated Collector's Edition more books like this by Dan Brown Now available in this premium edition--the book that introduced Dr. Robert Langdon, the hero of Brown's phenomenal bestseller "The Da Vinci Code," just in time for the May premiere of Columbia Pictures' film adaptation, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks. see all copies from $7.45! new only from $19.90! \| first editions \| SVS
5	What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character more books like this by Richard Phillips Feynman, PH.D. Richard Feynman, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and a winner of the Nobel Prize, died in February 1988. This is his last anecdotal autobiography in which he tells the story of the two people who most influenced his early years - his father, who taught him to think, and his first wife Arlene who taught him to love, even as she ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.64! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Russia House more books like this by John Le Carre It is the third summer of perestroika. Barley Blair, London publisher, receives a smuggled document from Moscow. It contains technical information of overwhelming importance. But is it genuine? Is the author genuine? A plant? A madman? Blair, jazz-loving, drink-marinated, dishevelled, is hardly to the taste of the spymasters, yet he has to be used ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Strange Attractions more books like this by Emma Holly Determined not to repeat her mother's mistakes, high school dropout Charity Wills jumps at the chance to attend college for free. However, she must travel to the estate of a reclusive physicist who likes to play sex games in this new work of erotica from the author of "Personal Assets." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Copenhagen more books like this by Michael Frayn In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. But now the world had changed, and the two men ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance more books like this by Emanuel Derman, PH.D. In "My Life as a Quant", Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this field - analyzing the incompatible personas of traders and quants, and discussing the dissimilar nature of knowledge in physics and finance. ... see all copies from $6.73! new only from $9.79! \| SVS
10	Mathematical methods for physicists more books like this by George B Arfken This new and completely revised Fourth Edition provides thorough coverage of the important mathematics needed for upper-division and graduate study in physics and engineering. After more than 28 years of successful class-testing, Mathematical Methods for Physicists is considered the standard text on the subject. A new chapter on nonlinear methods ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $31.88! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Isaac Newton more books like this by James Gleick A portrait of Isaac Newton, the man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith is painted in this book. Isaac Newton was the chief architect of the modern world. He answered the ancient philosophical riddles of light and motion; he effectively discovered gravity; he salvaged the terms "time", "space", "motion" and ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $8.06! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays more books like this by Steve Martin Steve Martin is one of America's treasured comedic actors, having appeared in some of the most popular movies of our time. He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has for the past few years turned his attention to writing plays. The results, collected here, demonstrate new facets of the range and talent he possesses on screen. His plays ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $7.51! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Last Theorem more books like this by Arthur Charles Clarke, Frederik Pohl, IV Two of science fiction's most renowned writers join forces for a storytelling sensation. "The Last Theorem" is a gripping intellectual thriller in which humanity, facing extermination from all-but-omnipotent aliens, must overcome differences of politics and religion and come together--or perish. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $16.68! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	What Is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches more books like this by Roger Schrodinger, Erwin Schrodinger, Roger Penrose (Foreword by) Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman, but proved one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of the structure of DNA ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $7.61! \| SVS
15 view cover	World as I See It more books like this by Albert Einstein To the majority of people Einstein's theory is a complete mystery. Their attitude towards Einstein is like that of Mark Twain towards the writer of a work on mathematics: here was a man who had written an entire book of which Mark could not understand a single sentence. Einstein, therefore, is great in the public eye partly because he has made ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.94! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Einstein: The Life and Times more books like this by Ronald William Clark This biography goes beyond the genius mind to reveal the human side of the legendary absent-minded professor--the boy growing up in the Swiss Alps, the young man caught in an unhappy first marriage, the passionate pacifist who agonized over making The Bomb, and the physicist who believed in God. photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II more books like this by Jennet Richards Conant The fascinating, little known story of Alfred Loomis, a wealthy eccentric who bankrolled pioneering research into the radar detection system and the atomic bomb. In the fall of 1940, as German bombers flew over London and with America not yet at war, a small team of British scientists on orders from Winston Churchill carried out a daring ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman more books like this by James Gleick From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating adventure in the annals of science" (The New York Times). 16 pages of photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer more books like this by Heinar Kipphardt see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb more books like this by Thomas Powers One of the most important and controversial aspects of the history of World War II is the failure of the Germans to build an atomic bomb. Germany was the birthplace of modern physics; it possessed the raw materials and the industrial base; and it commanded key intellectual resources. What happened? This study tells of the interplay between science ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.20! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman more books like this by Richard Phillips Feynman, PH.D. An extraordinary volume of never-before-published letters written by one of America's most beloved scientists Richard P. Feynman, brilliant physicist and beloved teacher, is an iconic figure in the world of science. Born in 1918, Feynman received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1942 and went on to win the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965 for his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.70! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Meaning of Relativity more books like this by Albert Einstein The world would be a very different place if it were not for Albert Einstein. Like Newton and Galileo before him, this remarkable scientist changed forever mankind's understanding of the universe. In 1921, five years after proclaiming his general theory of relativity, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in recognition of his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.94! \| first editions
23 view cover	Newton's Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World more books like this by David Berlinski Sir Isaac Newton is among the giants of the scientific era. It was Newton who conceived the imperial vision of mathematical physics and Newton again who created the first and perhaps the greatest of scientific theories. Physicists searching for the elusive final theory that will conclusively explain matter in all of its manifestations are his ... see all copies from $2.44! new only from $9.64! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Angeles y Demonios more books like this by Dan Brown An explosive international suspense, "Angels & Demons" marks Robert Langdon's first adventure as it careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war. see all copies from $4.68! new only from $13.95! \| SVS
25 view cover	Humans more books like this by Robert J Sawyer HUMANS is the second volume in Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, the sequel to HOMINIDS (2002). The series is set on an alternative Earth, where homo sapiens is extinct, Neanderthals rule, and our hero is Ponter Boddit, a physicist. Meanwhile, back on the real Earth, a Canadian geneticist named Mary Vaughan, who became friends with Boddit in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.30! \| signed copies \| first editions

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