Science books
Table of Contents¶
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- 30-Second Anatomy: The 50 Most Important Structures and Systems in the Human Body, Each Explained in Half a Minute
- 30-Second Astronomy: The 50 most mindblowing discoveries in astronomy, each explained in half a minute
- 30-Second Physics: The 50 most fundamental concepts in physics, each explained in half a minute
- 30-Second Quantum Theory: The 50 most thought-provoking quantum concepts, each explained in half a minute
- 59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot
A¶
- A Brief History Of Time From The Big Bang To Black Holes
- A Practical Guide to Data Analysis for Physical Science Students
- An Introduction to Nuclear Physics
- AsapSCIENCE: answers to the world’s weirdest questions, most persistent rumours, and unexplained phenomena
B¶
- Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others
- Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About It
- Black Holes And Baby Universes And Other Essays
- Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
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H¶
- High Energy Astrophysics v2 2ed: Volume 2
- How Did They Do That? Wonders of the Far and Recent Past Explained
- How to Do Just About Everything
- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd
- Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
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M¶
P¶
Q¶
R¶
S¶
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Carlo Rovelli
- Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: Theoretical Minimum
- Statistical Physics, 2nd Edition: 14 (Manchester Physics Series)
- Stellar Astrophysics Volume 3: 03 (Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics)
T¶
- The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford Paperbacks)
- The Book Of Nothing
- The Case of the Missing Neutrinos: And Other Curious Phenomena of the U Niverse (Penguin Press Science S.)
- The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World (Penguin Science)
- The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
- The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue Vol 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat
- The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins
- The Music of the Primes: Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters
- The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (Penguin Classics)
- The Physics Quick Reference Guide
- The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
- The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
- The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
W¶
- Was Einstein Right?: Putting General Relativity to the Test (Oxford Paperbacks)
- We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
- What If?: Serious Scientific Answer to Absurd Hypothetical Questions: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
- What If?: Serious Scientific Answer to Absurd Hypothetical Questions: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
- What We Cannot Know: From consciousness to the cosmos, the cutting edge of science explained
- Windscale, 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident
30-Second Anatomy: The 50 Most Important Structures and Systems in the Human Body, Each Explained in Half a Minute¶
Author: Finn, Gabrielle M.; Barbaro-Brown, Judith; Smith, Claire France
Published Date: 2017-08-17
Pages: 160.0
ISBN: 9781782405139
Summary: 30-Second Anatomy gets straight to the heart of the matter: how your body operates. Whether you are a student of medicine or biology, an artist, an athlete, or simply dying to know what your physician means when he mentions your plexus or your humerus, this is the quickest route to get under your own skin. Or, indeed, to understand exactly how your own skin works. Dissecting the detail of everything from your bones to your brain into 30-Second summaries, using no more than two pages, 300 words, and one picture, this is the hip way to understand the basic structures and systems that are you. Illustrated with gory graphics and supported by biographies of medical pioneers, time lines, and glossaries, it's the book of body parts that would have kept Burke and Hare in at nights.
Rating: ★★★★☆
30-Second Astronomy: The 50 most mindblowing discoveries in astronomy, each explained in half a minute¶
Author: Fressin, François; Rees, Martin J.
Published Date: 2018-05-03
Pages: 160.0
ISBN: 9781785783593
Summary: How hot is Venus? Can you distinguish between a pulsar and a quasar? Is there a universe or a multiverse? Where do we fit into the infinitely grand scheme of things? How do we map the Cosmic Microwave Background? Most tantalizing of all: Is there anyone out there? The answers to these and many other far-out questions lie in your hands. Everyone's gazing at the heavens, but a voyage through the star-studded contents of this book will blow your mind. Astronomy encapsulates the terrifying hugeness of the cosmos into bite-size particles that mere earthlings can understand: 50 incredible discoveries brought down to Earth using no more than two pages, 300 words, and a picture. This one small volume takes you on a cosmic tour, shedding light on the most awesome of objects and places, explaining some very big ideas, concepts, and discoveries, and presenting the scientists and observers who have done so much to crack Life, the Universe, and Everything. Welcome aboard.
Rating: ★★★★☆
30-Second Physics: The 50 most fundamental concepts in physics, each explained in half a minute¶
Author: Clegg, Brian
Published Date: 2017-08-17
Pages: 160.0
ISBN: 9781782405146
Summary: The bestselling 30-Second series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. 30-Second Physics tackles the big ideas behind life as we know it, from electromagnetic waves that enable us to connect in an instant from opposite ends of the earth to the gravity that keeps our feet firmly on the ground. In a world where physics is an everyday essential and new quantum developments make headline news, you need to know your atoms from your anti-matter, and learn just enough to speak with fluidity about Fluid Dynamics and be certain about the Uncertainty Principle. Here is the fastest way to get up to speed with rocket science and the rest.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
30-Second Quantum Theory: The 50 most thought-provoking quantum concepts, each explained in half a minute¶
Author: Clegg, Brian; Close, Frank; Clifford, Leon; Ball, Philip; Hebden, Sophie
Published Date: 2017-11-02
Pages: 160.0
ISBN: 9781785782916
Summary: The bestselling 30-Second… series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand.
Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Each idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one picture, all digestible in 30 seconds.
30-Second Quantum Theory tackles a mindbendingly mysterious area of physics, introducing the 50 most significant quantum quandaries and ideas. In a world where the quantum physics of electronics is an everyday essential and new quantum developments make headline news, you will visit Parallel Worlds, ride Wave Theory, and learn just enough to talk with certainty about Uncertainty Theory and to untangle the mysteries of quantum entanglement.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot¶
Author: Wiseman, Richard
Published Date: 2010-04-02
Pages: 368.0
ISBN: 9780330511605
Summary: Whether you're looking to be more decisive in your life, find a new job or simply be happier, the chances are that this book has the 'magic bullet' you need.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
A Brief History Of Time From The Big Bang To Black Holes¶
Author: Hawking, Stephen; Sagan, Carl; Miller, Ron
Published Date: 1990
Pages: 198.0
ISBN: 9780593015186
Summary: Stephen Hawking is one of the world's leading cosmologists and is widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. Although he has been widely published within his specialized field, A Brief History of Time is the first work he has written for the non-mathematical layman. In it he explores the outer reaches of our knowledge of astrophysics and the nature of time and the universe. The result is a revelation: a book that not only serves as an introduction to today's most important theories on the cosmos but affords a unique opportunity to experience one of the most imaginative and influential thinkers of our age.
Confined to a wheelchair for the last twenty years by a motor-neurone disease, Professor Hawking is best known for his work on black holes. But here he turns his mind to the biggest question of all: the search for a unified theory that combines general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Always in the clearest, most accessible terms, Stephen Hawking reviews the great theories of the cosmos. From Galileo and Newton to Einstein and Poincaré, and then moves on into deepest space for the greatest intellectual adventure of all. Could time run backwards? Will a "no boundary" universe replace the big bang theory? What happens in a universe with eleven dimensions? These are just some of the questions considered with devastating lucidity and brilliance in A Brief History of Time, a work that is bound to become a classic of its kind.
Rating: ★★★★☆
A Practical Guide to Data Analysis for Physical Science Students¶
Author: Lyons, Louis; Louis, Lyons
Published Date: 1991-11-29
Pages: 116.0
ISBN: N/A
Summary: It is usually straightforward to calculate the result of a practical experiment in the laboratory. Estimating the accuracy of that result is often regarded by students as an obscure and tedious routine, involving much arithmetic. An estimate of the error is, however, an integral part of the presentation of the results of experiments. This textbook is intended for undergraduates who are carrying out laboratory experiments in the physical sciences for the first time. It is a practical guide on how to analyse data and estimate errors. The necessary formulas for performing calculations are given, and the ideas behind them are explained, although this is not a formal text on statistics. Specific examples are worked through step by step in the text. Emphasis is placed on the need to think about whether a calculated error is sensible. At first students should take this book with them to the laboratory, and the format is intended to make this convenient. The book will provide the necessary understanding of what is involved, should inspire confidence in the method of estimating errors, and enable numerical calculations without too much effort. The author's aim is to make practical classes more enjoyable. Students who use this book will be able to complete their calculations quickly and confidently, leaving time to appreciate the basic physical ideas involved in the experiments.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
An Introduction to Nuclear Physics¶
Author: Cottingham, W.N.; Greenwood, Derek A.
Published Date: 1986-07-31
Pages: 228.0
ISBN: 9780521319607
Summary: A comprehensive account of the basic concepts of nuclear physics intended for use in a first course on the physics of the atomic nucleus. Assumes a knowledge of elementary quantum physics, but is supplemented by appendices on particularly relevant topics.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
AsapSCIENCE: answers to the world’s weirdest questions, most persistent rumours, and unexplained phenomena¶
Author: Moffit, Mitchell; Brown, Greg
Published Date: 2015-07-02
Pages: 256.0
ISBN: 9781922247940
Summary: From the creators of the wildly popular and seriously scientific YouTube channel, AsapSCIENCE, comes entertaining, irreverent, and totally accessible answers to the questions you never got to ask in science class. Why do we get hung over? What would happen if you stopped sleeping? Is binge-watching TV actually bad for you? Why should I take a power nap? In their first-ever book, Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown, the geniuses behind YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE, explain the true science of how things work in their trademark hilarious and fascinating fashion. Applying the fun, illustrated format of their addictive videos to topics ranging from brain freeze to hiccups to the science of the snooze button, AsapSCIENCE takes the underpinnings of biology, chemistry, physics, and other hard sciences and applies them to everyday life through quirky and relatable examples that will appeal to both science nerds and those who didn’t ace chemistry. This is the science that people actually want to learn, shared in a friendly, engaging style. And in the spirit of science, no subject is taboo. Amid the humor is great information and cocktail conversation fodder, all thoughtfully presented. Whether you’re a total newbie or the next Albert Einstein, this guide is sure to educate and entertain...ASAP.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others¶
Author: martin-rees
Published Date: 2002-09-02
Pages: 288.0
ISBN: 9780743230995
Summary: nd its place within a grander scheme, one of the most creative and original of contemporary scientists draws together recent advances in astrophysics and up-to-the-minute research to cast a piercing light on man's place in the cosmos.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About It¶
Author: Singh, Simon
Published Date: 2005-04-27
Pages: 562.0
ISBN: 9780007152520
Summary: Everybody has heard of the Big Bang theory, but how many of us can actually claim to understand it? Why do cosmologists believe the Big Bang to be an accurate description of the origin of the universe? Who were the scientists who fought to bring acceptance to this unorthodox theory? And what, exactly, does the Big Bang really mean?
In this unprecedented book, Simon Singh, author of "Fermat's Last Theorem" and "The Code Book" explains the most famous and arguably the most significant idea in the history of science. With clarity and a narrative peppered with anecdotes, the author has written the astonishing story of the beginnings of the cosmos. It is a thrilling ride through the history of the universe itself.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Black Holes And Baby Universes And Other Essays¶
Author: Hawking, Stephen; Mlodinow, Leonard
Published Date: 1994-09-08
Pages: 173.0
ISBN: 9780553406634
Summary: Readers worldwide know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time.
In this collection of essays and other pieces - on subjects that range from warmly personal to the wholly scientific- he is revealed variously as the scientist, the man, the concerned world citizen, and - as always - the rigorous and imaginative thinker. Whether remembering his first experience of nursery school; puncturing the arrogance of those who think science can best be understood only by other scientists and should be left to them; exploring the origins and the future of the universe; or reflecting on the phenomenon of A Brief History of Time, Stephen's wit, directness of style and absence of pomp are vital characteristics at all times.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy¶
Author: Thorne, Kip S.; , illustrated
Published Date: 1994-06-24
Pages: 496.0
ISBN: 9780330331623
Summary: Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even Einstein himself rejected them.
Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time.
Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has been in the thick of the quest to secure answers. In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads his readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know the things they think they know? Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has been one of the greatest best-sellers in publishing history. Anyone who struggled with that book will find here a more slowly paced but equally mind-stretching experience, with the added fascination of a rich historical and human component.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum¶
Author: Susskind, Leonard; Hrabovsky, George
Published Date: 2014-02-25
Pages: 256.0
ISBN: 9780141976228
Summary: A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2013
A world-class physicist and a citizen scientist combine forces to teach Physics 101—the DIY way
The Theoretical Minimum is a book for anyone who has ever regretted not taking physics in college—or who simply wants to know how to think like a physicist. In this unconventional introduction, physicist Leonard Susskind and hacker-scientist George Hrabovsky offer a first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur. Unlike most popular physics books—which give readers a taste of what physicists know but shy away from equations or math—Susskind and Hrabovsky actually teach the skills you need to do physics, beginning with classical mechanics, yourself. Based on Susskind's enormously popular Stanford University-based (and YouTube-featured) continuing-education course, the authors cover the minimum—the theoretical minimum of the title—that readers need to master to study more advanced topics.
An alternative to the conventional go-to-college method, The Theoretical Minimum provides a tool kit for amateur scientists to learn physics at their own pace.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Collins Stargazing: Beginner’s guide to astronomy¶
Author: Topalovic, Radmila; Kerss, Tom; Greenwich, Royal Observatory; Astronomy, Collins Collins
Published Date: 2016-10-06
Pages: 224.0
ISBN: 9780008196271
Summary: This is the perfect beginner’s guide to astronomy for use in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. It discusses how to plan your stargazing and what you can see with your eyes, as well as how to choose binoculars and telescopes and what you can see using them. The book also offers seasonal star charts and constellation charts and gives readers specific objects to look for in the sky. This guide from Royal Observatory Greenwich provides all you need to know to get started in stargazing and discover the universe.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Electricity And Magnetism¶
Author: Duffin, W.J.
Published Date: 1990-04-16
Pages: 496.0
ISBN: 9780077072094
Summary: nan
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Fermat’s Last Theorem¶
Author: Singh, Simon
Published Date: 1998-05-07
Pages: 384.0
ISBN: 9781857026696
Summary: In 1963, a schoolboy browsing in his local library stumbled across a great mathematical problem: Fermat's Last Theorem, a puzzle that every child can now understand, but which has baffled mathematicians for over 300 years. Aged just ten, Andrew Wiles dreamed he would crack it.
Rating: ★★★★☆
High Energy Astrophysics v2 2ed: Volume 2¶
Author: Longair, Malcolm S.
Published Date: 2008-08-21
Pages: 412.0
ISBN: 9780521435840
Summary: What role does viscosity play in accretion discs? How do you calculate the 'glitch function' of a pulsar? And can strong shocks account for the energy spectrum of electrons in our Galaxy? These are just some of the exciting questions that Professor Longair uses to develop the physics needed by the astronomer and high energy astrophysicist. The highly acclaimed first edition of High Energy Astrophysics instantly established itself as a classic in the teaching of contemporary astronomy. Reflecting the immense interest and developments in the subject, Professor Longair has developed the second edition into three texts; in this second volume he provides a comprehensive discussion of the high energy astrophysics of stars, the Galaxy and the interstellar medium. He develops an understanding for the essential physics with an elegance and infectious enthusiasm for which his teaching is internationally renowned, illustrating the issues throughout with results from forefront research. This book takes the student with a knowledge of physics and mathematics at the undergraduate level - but not necessarily with training in astronomy - to the point where current astronomical research can be understood.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
How Did They Do That? Wonders of the Far and Recent Past Explained¶
Author: Sutton, Caroline
Published Date: 1985-08-01
Pages: 332.0
ISBN: 9780688059354
Summary: A collection of 17 of Asimov's essays on science and other topics, ranging from the energy crisis to the organization of living matter.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
How to Do Just About Everything¶
Author: Rosen, Courtney
Published Date: 2007-04-12
Pages: 100.0
ISBN: 9780007798148
Summary: How to Do Just About Everything ROSEN
Rating: ★★★★★
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd¶
Author: Munroe, Randall; , Randall
Published Date: 2019-09-03
Pages: 320.0
ISBN: 9781473680326
Summary: The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer
For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a millennial by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the moon. And if you want to get rid of this book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapour, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the sun.
By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, he invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors¶
Author: Parker, Matt
Published Date: 2020-03-05
Pages: 336.0
ISBN: 9780141989143
Summary: The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller 'Wonderful ... superb' Daily Mail
What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world.
As Matt Parker shows us, our modern lives are built on maths: computer programmes, finance, engineering. And most of the time this maths works quietly behind the scenes, until ... it doesn't. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near-misses and mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman empire and a hapless Olympic shooting team, Matt Parker shows us the bizarre ways maths trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world.
Mathematics doesn't have good 'people skills', but we would all be better off, he argues, if we saw it as a practical ally. This book shows how, by making maths our friend, we can learn from its pitfalls. It also contains puzzles, challenges, geometric socks, jokes about binary code and three deliberate mistakes. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.
Rating: ★★★★☆
It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations Of Modern Science¶
Author: Farmelo, Graham
Published Date: 2003-02-06
Pages: 304.0
ISBN: 9781862075559
Summary: A stunning and unique look at the great equations that lie at the heart of many of the most successful scientific theories.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Just Six Numbers (SCIENCE MASTERS)¶
Author: Rees, Martin J.
Published Date: 2001-08-16
Pages: 208.0
ISBN: 9780753810224
Summary: The Astronomer Royal shows how the behaviour and origins of the universe can be explained by just six numbers
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue Vol 2: 002¶
Author: Feynman, Richard P.; Leighton, Robert B.; Sands, Matthew
Published Date: 1971-01-01
Pages: 592.0
ISBN: 9780201021172
Summary: Paperback book in very good condition. Cover clean with slightly bent corners. Spine straight and binding tight. Pages clean without markings or highlights. Proceeds benefit our small rural Library in Oregon.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue Vol 3¶
Author: Feynman, Richard P.; Leighton, Robert B.; Sands, Matthew
Published Date: 1971-01-01
Pages: 400.0
ISBN: 9780201021189
Summary: This is a textbook that derives the fundamental theories of physics from symmetry. It starts by introducing, in a completely self-contained way, all mathematical tools needed to use symmetry ideas in physics. Thereafter, these tools are put into action and by using symmetry constraints, the fundamental equations of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, Electromagnetism, and Classical Mechanics are derived. As a result, the reader is able to understand the basic assumptions behind, and the connections between the modern theories of physics. The book concludes with first applications of the previously derived equations. Thanks to the input of readers from around the world, this second edition has been purged of typographical errors and also contains several revised sections with improved explanations.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences¶
Author: Boas, Mary L.; Mazur, Barry
Published Date: 2012-03-18
Pages: 552.0
ISBN: N/A
Summary: Now in its third edition, Mathematical Concepts in the Physical Sciences, 3rd Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the areas of mathematical physics. It combines all the essential math concepts into one compact, clearly written reference.
This book is intended for students who have had a two-semester or three-semester introductory calculus course. Its purpose is to help students develop, in a short time, a basic competence in each of the many areas of mathematics needed in advanced courses in physics, chemistry, and engineering. Students are given sufficient depth to gain a solid foundation (this is not a recipe book). At the same time, they are not overwhelmed with detailed proofs that are more appropriate for students of mathematics. The emphasis is on mathematical methods rather than applications, but students are given some idea of how the methods will be used along with some simple applications.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Moongazing: Beginner’s guide to exploring the Moon¶
Author: Kerss, Tom; Kerss, Tom; Astronomy, Collins Collins
Published Date: 2018-11-01
Pages: 96.0
ISBN: 9780008305000
Summary: An in-depth guide for aspiring astronomers and Moon observers from the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Includes detailed Moon maps and covers the history of lunar observation and exploration, the properties of the Moon, its origin and orbit. This is the ideal book for Moon observers covering essential equipment, and the key events to look out for.
Detailed advice is given on how to choose a telescope and how to capture the Moon in sketches.
Discover all you need to know about eclipses, blue moons, supermoons, conjunctions and occultations.
A comprehensive section covers astrophotography using lenses, telescopes, Smartphones, including video and how to process your images.
Comes with a photographic atlas of lunar features with plates and annotated maps.
A glossary of key terms, index of lunar features and software references are also provided.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Physicist's Desk Reference 3rd (third) Edition published by Springer (2010)¶
Author: Cohen, Richard E.; Lide, David; Trigg, George
Published Date: 2003-01-27
Pages: 932.0
ISBN: 9780387989730
Summary: This is a major revision of a classic, best selling reference book. Originally published by the American Institute of Physics under the title "Physics Vade Mecum" in 1981, and then the second edition in 1989 with the new title "A Physicist's Desk Reference", this third edition has been completely updated and modernized to reflect current modern physics.The book is a concise compilation of the most frequently used physics data and formulae with their derivations. This revision has six more chapters than the second edition, outdated chapters dropped, and new chapters added on atmospheric physics, electricity and magnetism, elementary particle physics, fluid dynamics, geophysics, nonlinear physics, particle accelerators, polymer physics, and quantum theory. There is a new last chapter on practical laboratory data. The references and bibliographies have been updated.This book is an indispensable tool for the researcher, professional and student in physics as well as other scientists who use physics data. The editors of this volume are Richard Cohen, author of the first two chapters of PDR and the "Physics Quick Reference Guide"; David Lide, one of the editors of the previous two editions and the editor of the "CRC Handbook of Physics and Chemistry"; and George Trigg, editor of the "Encyclopedia of Physics" and the "Encyclopedia of Applied Physics" (VCH). The market for this classic reference book includes the practicing scientist, including engineers, chemists, and biologists; and students.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Quantum Mechanics,¶
Author: Rae, Alastair I.M.
Published Date: 1992-01-01
Pages: 280.0
ISBN: 9780750302173
Summary: This text explains clearly and with the minimum of mathematical complexity the quantum mechanics needed by physics undergraduates. It is aimed at students who have finished the first year of their courses. It is widely recommended as a course text.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum¶
Author: Susskind, Leonard; Friedman, Art
Published Date: 2015-04-30
Pages: 384.0
ISBN: 9780141977812
Summary: From the bestselling author of The Theoretical Minimum, a DIY introduction to the math and science of quantum physics
First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has teamed up with data engineer Art Friedman to present the theory and associated mathematics of the strange world of quantum mechanics.
In this follow-up to The Theoretical Minimum, Susskind and Friedman provide a lively introduction to this famously difficult field, which attempts to understand the behavior of sub-atomic objects through mathematical abstractions. Unlike other popularizations that shy away from quantum mechanics’ weirdness, Quantum Mechanics embraces the utter strangeness of quantum logic. The authors offer crystal-clear explanations of the principles of quantum states, uncertainty and time dependence, entanglement, and particle and wave states, among other topics, and each chapter includes exercises to ensure mastery of each area. Like The Theoretical Minimum, this volume runs parallel to Susskind’s eponymous Stanford University-hosted continuing education course.
An approachable yet rigorous introduction to a famously difficult topic, Quantum Mechanics provides a tool kit for amateur scientists to learn physics at their own pace.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity¶
Author: Rovelli, Carlo; Segre, Erica; Carnell, Simon
Published Date: 2017-06-01
Pages: 272.0
ISBN: 9780141983219
Summary: Do space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. In this mind-expanding book, he shows how our understanding of reality has changed throughout centuries, from Democritus to loop quantum gravity. Taking us on a wondrous journey, he invites us to imagine a whole new world where black holes are waiting to explode, spacetime is made up of grains, and infinity does not exist -- a vast universe still largely undiscovered.
Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Carlo Rovelli¶
Author: Rovelli, Carlo; Segre, Erica; Carnell, Simon
Published Date: 2016-06-30
Pages: 96.0
ISBN: 9780141981727
Summary: Everything you need to know about modern physics, the universe and our place in the world in seven enlightening lessons
'Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking'
These seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. Not since Richard Feynman's celebrated Six Easy Pieces has physics been so vividly, intelligently and entertainingly revealed.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: Theoretical Minimum¶
Author: Susskind, Leonard; Friedman, Art
Published Date: 2018-09-06
Pages: 448.0
ISBN: 9780141985015
Summary: The third volume in the bestselling physics series cracks open Einstein's special relativity and field theory Physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's classical field theory. Using their typical brand of real math, enlightening drawings, and humor, Susskind and Friedman walk us through the complexities of waves, forces, and particles by exploring special relativity and electromagnetism. It's a must-read for both devotees of the series and any armchair physicist who wants to improve their knowledge of physics' deepest truths.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Statistical Physics, 2nd Edition: 14 (Manchester Physics Series)¶
Author: Mandl, Franz
Published Date: 1988-04-20
Pages: 416.0
ISBN: 9780471915331
Summary: Never Highlight a Book Again! Just the FACTS101 study guides give the student the textbook outlines, highlights, practice quizzes and optional access to the full practice tests for their textbook.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Stellar Astrophysics Volume 3: 03 (Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics)¶
Author: Böhm-Vitense, Erika
Published Date: 2008-08-21
Pages: 304.0
ISBN: 9780521348713
Summary: This book is the final one in a series of three texts which together provide a modern, complete and authoritative account of our present knowledge of the stars. It discusses the internal structure and the evolution of stars, and is completely self-contained. There is an emphasis on the basic physics governing stellar structure and the basic ideas on which our understanding of stellar structure is based. The book also provides a comprehensive discussion of stellar evolution. Careful comparison is made between theory and observation, and the author has thus provided a lucid and balanced introductory text for the student. As for volumes 1 and 2, volume 3 is self-contained and can be used as an independent textbook. The author has not only taught but has also published many original papers in this subject. Her clear and readable style should make this text a first choice for undergraduate and beginning graduate students taking courses in astronomy and particularly in stellar astrophysics.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford Paperbacks)¶
Author: Barrow, John D.; Barrow, John D.; Tipler, Frank J.
Published Date: 1988-08-25
Pages: 738.0
ISBN: 9780192821478
Summary: nan
Rating: ★★★☆☆
The Book Of Nothing¶
Author: Barrow, John D.
Published Date: 2001-07-05
Pages: 400.0
ISBN: 9780099288459
Summary: From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosphers, from Shakespeare to the empty set, from the ether to the quantum vacuum, from being and nothingness to creatio ex nihilo, there is much ado about nothing at the heart of things. Discoveries in astronomy are shown to shed new light on the nature of the vacuum and its dramatic effect on the explanation of the Universe.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
The Case of the Missing Neutrinos: And Other Curious Phenomena of the U Niverse (Penguin Press Science S.)¶
Author: Gribbin, John
Published Date: 2000-03-02
Pages: 240.0
ISBN: 9780140287349
Summary: Is it true that the Sun is shrinking at such a rate that our Earth will disappear within a hundred thousand years? What happened to the Sun's neutrinos to make them disappear on their way to the Earth? Why does the fact that the sky is dark at night prove that our universe is changing and hasn't always been the way it is? What are the chances that, if ever we make contact with intelligent beings who evolved under conditions similar to those on Earth, they too will be upright, bipedal with two arms ending in five-fingered hands, with a head on top containing a pair of eyes, a nose, and a mouth?
Questions like these are posed - and often answered - in this delightful excursion through the Universe with John Gribbin, the noted award-winning astronomer and science writer. Here he explores the topics of his passionate expertise - often some of the more outlandish aspects of astronomy frequently shunned in the sober pages of scientific journals - including supernova explosions. neutron stars, white holes, black holes, wormholes, and inflation. "The Case of the Missing Neutrinos" is very much a personal account of twenty years of watching the Universe by a man with a rare knack for turning complex science into plain, everyday language.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World (Penguin Science)¶
Author: Cohen, Jack; Stewart, Ian
Published Date: 2000-03-02
Pages: 495.0
ISBN: 9780140291254
Summary: Traditional science tries to answer the question: How does complexity arise in nature? But, say Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart in their exhilarating book, the more interesting question is: Why is there any simplicity?
Beginning with a guided tour of the Islands of Truth that tells us everything we need to know about science from Newton to the present, the authors dive into the Oceans of Ignorance that surround them - turning conventional science on its head and putting it in a larger context. Provocative and controversial, their approach enables us to look at the world in a startling new way.
Rating: ★★★★☆
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics¶
Author: Zukav, Gary
Published Date: 1991-03-14
Pages: 352.0
ISBN: 9780712648721
Summary: Gary Zukav has written "the Bible" for those who are curious about the mind-expanding discoveries of advanced physics, but who have no scientific background. Like a Wu Li Master who would teach us wonder for the falling petal before speaking of gravity, Zukav writes in beautifully clear language—with no mathematical equations—opening our minds to the exciting new theories that are beginning to embrace the ultimate nature of our universe...Quantum mechanics, relativity, and beyond to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect and Bell's theorem.
At an Esalen Institute meeting in 1976, tai chi master Al Huang said that the Chinese word for physics is Wu Li, "patterns of organic energy." Journalist Gary Zukav and the others present developed the idea of physics as the dance of the Wu Li Masters--the teachers of physical essence. Zukav explains the concept further: The Wu Li Master dances with his student. The Wu Li Master does not teach, but the student learns. The Wu Li Master always begins at the center, the heart of the matter.... This book deals not with knowledge, which is always past tense anyway, but with imagination, which is physics come alive, which is Wu Li.... Most people believe that physicists are explaining the world. Some physicists even believe that, but the Wu Li Masters know that they are only dancing with it. The "new physics" of Zukav's 1979 book comprises quantum theory, particle physics, and relativity. Even as these theories age they haven't percolated all that far into the collective consciousness; they're too far removed from mundane human experience not to need introduction. The Dancing Wu Li Masters remains an engaging, accessible way to meet the most profound and mind-altering insights of 20th-century science. --Mary Ellen Curtin
Rating: ★★★★☆
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory¶
Author: Greene, Brian
Published Date: 2000-02-03
Pages: 464.0
ISBN: 9780099289920
Summary: Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter, from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas, is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy.
Today, physicists and mathematicians throughout the world are feverishly working on one of the most ambitious theories ever proposed: superstring theory. String theory, as it is often called, is the key to the Unified Field Theory that eluded Einstein for more than thirty years. Finally, the century-old antagonism between the large and the small--General Relativity and Quantum Theory--is resolved. String theory proclaims that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe, from the frantic dancing of subatomic quarks to the majestic swirling of heavenly galaxies, are reflections of one grand physical principle and manifestations of one single entity: microscopically tiny vibrating loops of energy, a billionth of a billionth the size of an atom. In this brilliantly articulated and refreshingly clear book, Greene relates the scientific story and the human struggle behind twentieth-century physics' search for a theory of everything.
Through the masterful use of metaphor and analogy, The Elegant Universe makes some of the most sophisticated concepts ever contemplated viscerally accessible and thoroughly entertaining, bringing us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.
Rating: ★★★★☆
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality¶
Author: Greene, Brian
Published Date: 2005-02-24
Pages: 592.0
ISBN: 9780141011110
Summary: From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, 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? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. From Newton’s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein’s fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics’ entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world.
Rating: ★★★★☆
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue Vol 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat¶
Author: Feynman, Richard P.; Leighton, Robert B.; Sands, Matthew
Published Date: 1971-01-01
Pages: 560.0
ISBN: 9780201021165
Summary: New edition features improved typography, figures and tables, expanded indexes, and 885 new corrections.
Rating: ★★★★☆
The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins¶
Author: Guth, Alan
Published Date: 1998-07-02
Pages: 384.0
ISBN: 9780099959502
Summary: This classic Big Bang neatly describes what happened after the bang. Yet, until recently, particle physicists and cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the Big Bang Theory still couldn't answer, primarily: If matter can neither be created nor des
Rating: ★★★★☆
The Music of the Primes: Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters¶
Author: Sautoy, Marcus du
Published Date: 2004-09-06
Pages: 366.0
ISBN: 9781841155807
Summary: Recounts the history of prime numbers, (numbers divisible only by one and themselves), which has implications beyond pure mathematics. Euclid, Ramanujan, Odlyzko, and the formation of RSA encryption are discussed, as well as the state of contemporary research on the topic. Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2003.
Rating: ★★★★☆
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (Penguin Classics)¶
Author: Darwin, Charles; Burrow, J.W.
Published Date: 1982-07-29
Pages: 480.0
ISBN: 9780140432053
Summary: Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those not fitted for the task.
Yet The Origin of Species (1859) is also a humane and inspirational vision of ecological interrelatedness, revealing the complex mutual interdependencies between animal and plant life, climate and physical environment, and—by implication—within the human world.
Written for the general reader, in a style which combines the rigour of science with the subtlety of literature, The Origin of Species remains one of the founding documents of the modern age.
Rating: ★★★★☆
The Physics Quick Reference Guide¶
Author: Cohen, Richard
Published Date: 2010
Pages: 226.0
ISBN: 9781563961434
Summary: This book consists of material in the first chapter of A Physicist's Desk Reference, updated and supplemented by additional new data. It's a self-contained, quick reference guide to the most commonly used mathematical formulas, tables of data, symbols, units, standard nomenclature, and fundamental constants in physics. A useful bibliography to more complete sources of data is also included.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe¶
Author: Penrose, Roger
Published Date: 2004-07-29
Pages: 1000.0
ISBN: 9780224044479
Summary: Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive and comprehensible account of the physics of the universe. From the very first attempts by the Greeks to grapple with the complexities of our known world to the latest application of infinity in physics, The Road to Reality carefully explores the movement of the smallest atomic particles and reaches into the vastness of intergalactic space. Here, Penrose examines the mathematical foundations of the physical universe, exposing the underlying beauty of physics and giving us one the most important works in modern science writing.
Rating: ★★★★☆
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics¶
Author: Susskind, Leonard; Hrabovsky, George
Published Date: 2014-04-22
Pages: 256.0
ISBN: 9780465075683
Summary: A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2013
A world-class physicist and a citizen scientist combine forces to teach Physics 101—the DIY way
The Theoretical Minimum is a book for anyone who has ever regretted not taking physics in college—or who simply wants to know how to think like a physicist. In this unconventional introduction, physicist Leonard Susskind and hacker-scientist George Hrabovsky offer a first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur. Unlike most popular physics books—which give readers a taste of what physicists know but shy away from equations or math—Susskind and Hrabovsky actually teach the skills you need to do physics, beginning with classical mechanics, yourself. Based on Susskind's enormously popular Stanford University-based (and YouTube-featured) continuing-education course, the authors cover the minimum—the theoretical minimum of the title—that readers need to master to study more advanced topics.
An alternative to the conventional go-to-college method, The Theoretical Minimum provides a tool kit for amateur scientists to learn physics at their own pace.
Rating: ★★★★☆
The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report¶
Author: Ferris, Timothy
Published Date: 1998-07-06
Pages: 400.0
ISBN: 9780684838618
Summary: From the prizewinning author who has been called "the greatest science writer in the world" comes this delightfully comprehensive and comprehensible report on how science today envisions the universe as a whole. Timothy Ferris provides a clear, elegantly written overview of current research and a forecast of where cosmological theory is likely to go in the twenty-first century. He explores the questions that have occurred to even casual readers -- who are curious about nature on the largest scales: What does it mean to say that the universe is "expanding," or that space is "curved"? -- and sheds light on the possibility that our universe is only one among many universes, each with its own physical laws and prospects for the emergence of life.
Rating: N/A
Was Einstein Right?: Putting General Relativity to the Test (Oxford Paperbacks)¶
Author: Will, Clifford M.
Published Date: 1988-12-01
Pages: 288.0
ISBN: 9780192822031
Summary: nan
Rating: ★★★☆☆
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe¶
Author: Cham, Jorge; Whiteson, Daniel
Published Date: 2018-05-17
Pages: 368.0
ISBN: 9781473660205
Summary: BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering.
Rating: ★★★★☆
What If?: Serious Scientific Answer to Absurd Hypothetical Questions: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions¶
Author: Munroe, Randall; Munroe, Randall
Published Date: 2015-09-24
Pages: 336.0
ISBN: 9781848549562
Summary: Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate. 'My friend and I were arguing about what would happen if a bullet got struck by lightning, and we agreed that you should resolve it . . . ' He liked these questions so much that he started up What If.
If your cells suddenly lost the power to divide, how long would you survive?
How dangerous is it, really, to be in a swimming pool in a thunderstorm?
If we hooked turbines to people exercising in gyms, how much power could we produce?
What if everyone only had one soulmate?
When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British empire?
How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live?
What would happen if the moon went away?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, studded with memorable cartoons and infographics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. Far more than a book for geeks, WHAT IF: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much the smarter for having read.
Rating: ★★★★☆
What If?: Serious Scientific Answer to Absurd Hypothetical Questions: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions¶
Author: Munroe, Randall; Munroe, Randall
Published Date: 2015-09-24
Pages: 336.0
ISBN: 9781848549562
Summary: Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate. 'My friend and I were arguing about what would happen if a bullet got struck by lightning, and we agreed that you should resolve it . . . ' He liked these questions so much that he started up What If.
If your cells suddenly lost the power to divide, how long would you survive?
How dangerous is it, really, to be in a swimming pool in a thunderstorm?
If we hooked turbines to people exercising in gyms, how much power could we produce?
What if everyone only had one soulmate?
When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British empire?
How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live?
What would happen if the moon went away?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, studded with memorable cartoons and infographics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. Far more than a book for geeks, WHAT IF: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much the smarter for having read.
Rating: ★★★★☆
What We Cannot Know: From consciousness to the cosmos, the cutting edge of science explained¶
Author: Sautoy, Marcus du
Published Date: 2017-05-18
Pages: 320.0
ISBN: 9780007576593
Summary: Britain’s most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know.
Is the universe infinite?
Do we know what happened before the Big Bang?
Where is human consciousness located in the brain?
And are there more undiscovered particles out there, beyond the Higgs boson?
In the modern world, science is king: weekly headlines proclaim the latest scientific breakthroughs and numerous mathematical problems, once indecipherable, have now been solved. But are there limits to what we can discover about our physical universe?
In this very personal journey to the edges of knowledge, Marcus du Sautoy investigates how leading experts in fields from quantum physics and cosmology, to sensory perception and neuroscience, have articulated the current lie of the land. In doing so, he travels to the very boundaries of understanding, questioning contradictory stories and consulting cutting edge data.
Is it possible that we will one day know everything? Or are there fields of research that will always lie beyond the bounds of human comprehension? And if so, how do we cope with living in a universe where there are things that will forever transcend our understanding?
In What We Cannot Know, Marcus du Sautoy leads us on a thought-provoking expedition to the furthest reaches of modern science. Prepare to be taken to the edge of knowledge to find out if there’s anything we truly cannot know.
Rating: ★★★★☆
Windscale, 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident¶
Author: Arnold, Lorna
Published Date: 1992-01-13
Pages: 269.0
ISBN: 9780717119295
Summary: In 1957, one of the two reactors built at Windscale was destroyed by fire, in the world's first major nuclear accident. This book describes the fire and what followed, and considers its causes, effects and political importance. It throws a revealing new light on an important event of fifty years ago and on questions of secrecy and responsibility.
Rating: ★★★☆☆