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  • A Degree in a Book: Physics

    Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject in One Book

    by Sidney Perkowitz ...
    Series series A Degree in a Book
    A Degree in a Book: Physics is the perfect introduction to physicsFilled with helpful charts, suggestions for further reading and easily digestible history sections, this book makes it easier than ever to understand the essential concepts of physics. Featuring the most important ideas in the field, including gravity, thermodynamics, relativity, and quantum mechanics, it covers the whole breadth of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hollywood Science

    Movies, Science, and the End of the World

    by Sidney Perkowitz ...
    Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and sensuous introduction to the workings of science and technology. These films explore a range of complex topics in vivid and accessible ways, from space travel and laser technology to genetic engineering, global warming, and the consequences of nuclear ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Physics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sidney Perkowitz ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Physics, the fundamental science of matter and energy, encompasses all levels of nature from the subatomic to the cosmic, and underlies much of the technology around us. Understanding the physics of our universe is an essential aspect of humanity's quest to understand our environment and our place within it. Doing physics enables us to explore the interaction between environment and human society, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Science Sketches

    The Universe from Different Angles

    by Sidney Perkowitz ...
    This book is the second collection of over 50 articles and essays authored by Sidney Perkowitz. Appearing in diverse outlets such as Discover, Washington Post, Aeon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nautilus, Museum of the Moving Image, and Physics World, they represent the best of his writing about science and technology, and their links to culture and society, the arts and the media, and the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Real Scientists Don’t Wear Ties

    When Science Meets Culture

    by Sidney Perkowitz ...
    Real Scientists Don’t Wear Ties links science to general and popular culture and everyday life in an easy-to-understand style. When a gifted writer of science selects his best pieces published in the world’s most reputable periodicals such as Nature, Discover, and MIT Technology Review, we get an eminently readable collection of his varied work in book form. That it covers all-time relevant topics ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • Frankenstein

    by Sidney Perkowitz ...
    The tale of a tormented creature created in a laboratory began on a rainy night in 1816 in the imagination of a nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Since its publication two years later, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus has spread around the globe through every possible medium and variation. Frankenstein has not been out of print once in 200 years. “Frankenstein” has become an ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

    by Randall Frakes, Brooks Peck, Sidney Perkowitz, Matt Singer, Gary K. Wolfe, Lisa Yaszek ...
    This companion to the AMC's mini-series features the full interviews plus essays by sci-fi insiders and rare concept art from Cameron's archives.For the show, James Cameron personally interviewed six of the biggest names in science fiction filmmaking—Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ridley Scott, and Steven Spielberg—to get their perspectives on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Physics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sidney Perkowitz ...
    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 31 min

    Physics, the fundamental science of matter and energy, encompasses all levels of nature from the subatomic to the cosmic, and underlies much of the technology around us. Understanding the physics of our universe is an essential aspect of humanity's quest to understand our environment and our place within it. Doing physics enables us to explore the interaction between environment and human society, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Degree in a Book, A: Physics

    Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject in One Book!

    by Sidney Perkowitz ...
    Narrated by Laurence Bouvard ...
    Series series A Degree in a Book

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    A Degree in a Book: Physics is the perfect introduction to physics.Filled with easily digestible history sections, this book makes it easier than ever to understand the essential concepts of physics. Featuring the most important ideas in the field, including gravity, thermodynamics, relativity, and quantum mechanics, it covers the whole breadth of physics.It will help you answer questions such as: ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Philosophy of Physics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Wallace ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 32 min

    Philosophy of physics is concerned with the deepest theories of modern physics—notably quantum theory, our theories of space, time and symmetry, and thermal physics—and their strange, even bizarre conceptual implications. A deeper understanding of these theories helps both physics, through pointing the way to new theories and new applications, and philosophy, through seeing how our worldview has ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Memory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan K. Foster ...
    Narrated by Elisabeth Rodgers ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 32 min

    Memories are an integral part of being human. They haunt us, we cherish them, and in our lives we collect more of them with each new experience. Without memory, you would not be able to maintain a relationship, drive your car, talk to your children, read a poem, watch television, or do much of anything at all.Memory: A Very Short Introduction explores the fascinating intricacies of human memory. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Audiobook

    Liberalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Narrated by Mike Cooper ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial heritage of civilized thinking, of political practice, and of philosophical-ethical creativity.This Very Short Introduction unpacks the concept of liberalism and its various interpretations through three ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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