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  • Albert Einstein – His Life and Science

    A Dramatized Biography

    by Ken K. Chin ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book is part biographical account, part novel, and part popular science. The basic facts are historically true, but many episodes have additionally been dramatized with plausible content that brings the personal story to life in the style of a novel or movie script. This genre of a “dramatized biography" of scientists was first created by the author 45 years ago and became a great success ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Fundamentals of Optical Fiber Sensors

    by Zujie Fang, Ken Chin, Ronghui Qu, Haiwen Cai, Kai Chang ...
    Series Book 226 - Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering
    This book describes the latest development in optical fiber devices, and their applications to sensor technology. Optical fiber sensors, an important application of the optical fiber, have experienced fast development, and attracted wide attentions in basic science as well as in practical applications. Sensing is often likened to human sense organs. Optical fiber can not only transport information ... Read more

    $113.00 USD

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  • Einstein

    His Life and Universe

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein.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 testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.Based on newly released ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • What Is Real?

    The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

    by Adam Becker ...
    "A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book ReviewAn Editor's Choice, New York Times Book ReviewLonglisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingLonglisted for Goodreads Choice AwardEvery physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, ... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Perfect Theory

    A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

    by Pedro G. Ferreira ...
    "One of the best popular accounts of how Einstein and his followers have been trying to explain the universe for decades" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Einstein first presented it in 1915. This has driven their work to unveil the universe's surprising secrets even further, and many ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time (Great Discoveries)

    How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time

    by Michio Kaku ...
    Series series Great Discoveries
    In paperback for the centenary of the discovery of relativity, "a fresh and highly visual tour through Einstein's astonishing legacy" (Brian Greene).The year 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of the paper that launched Einstein's career, made E=mc2 famous, and ushered in a revolution in science—the paper that announced the theory of special relativity. And there's no better short ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Black Hole

    How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved

    by Marcia Bartusiak ...
    The award-winning science writer "packs a lot of learning into a deceptively light and enjoyable read" exploring the contentious history of the black hole ( New Scientist).For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The strange notion of a space-time abyss from which not even light escapes seemed to ... Read more

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  • The Einstein Theory Of Relativity: A Concise Statement By Prof. H.A. Lorentz (Mobi Classics)

    by Albert Einstein,H.A. Lorentz ...
    Relativity: The Special and General Theory is an introduction to Einstein's space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, first published in December 1916. Special and General relativity explain the structure of space time and provide a theory of gravitation, respectively. Einstein's theories shocked the world with their counterintuitive results, including the dissolution of absolute time. ... Read more

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  • Einstein

    A Biography

    by Jürgen Neffe ...
    Translated by Shelley Frisch ...
    Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most famous for his theory of relativity. He also made enormous contributions to quantum mechanics and cosmology, and for his work he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. A self-pronounced pacifist, humanist, and, late in his life, democratic socialist, Einstein was also deeply concerned with the social ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • E=mc2

    A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

    by David Bodanis ...
    Generations have grown up knowing that the equation E=mc2 changed the shape of our world, but never understanding what it actually means, why it was so significant, and how it informs our daily lives today--governing, as it does, everything from the atomic bomb to a television's cathode ray tube to the carbon dating of prehistoric paintings. In this book, David Bodanis writes the "biography" of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Einstein For Dummies

    by Carlos I. Calle ...
    Genius demystified, the Dummies way!In 1905, Albert Einstein revolutionized modern physics with his theory of relativity. He went on to become a twentieth-century icon-a man whose name and face are synonymous with "genius." Now, at last, ordinary readers can explore Einstein's life and work in this new For Dummies guide. Physicist Carlos Calle chronicles Einstein's career and explains his work ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Age of Entanglement

    by Louisa Gilder ...
    In The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder brings to life one of the pivotal debates in twentieth century physics. In 1935, Albert Einstein famously showed that, according to the quantum theory, separated particles could act as if intimately connected–a phenomenon which he derisively described as “spooky action at a distance.” In that same year, Erwin Schrödinger christened this correlation ... Read more

    $4.99 USD