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[2017] | First edition. | W.W. Norton & Company | 222 pages ; 20 cm | Available from another library
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2017. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 209 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | Available from another library
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2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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2017 | OverDrive | W. W. Norton & Company | English | Available Online
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"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly,...
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[2016] | First edition. | Crown | 342 pages ; 25 cm | Available from another library
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2016. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 517 pages (large print) ; 23 cm | Available from another library
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2016 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college...
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2014. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | xii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available from another library
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2014 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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[2017] | 1 volume (unapged) : color illustrations ; 17 cm | Available from another library
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[2016] | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm |
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[2018] | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm. |
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Big, brainy science for the littlest listeners. Accurate enough to satisfy an expert, yet simple enough for baby, this clever board book showcases the use of logic, sequence, and patterns to solve problems. Can Baby think like a coder to fix her train? Beautiful, visually stimulating illustrations complement age-appropriate language to encourage baby's sense of wonder. Parents and caregivers may learn a thing or two, as well! Author's Note: The goal...
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[1962] | New York University Press | 117 p. illus. 24 cm. | English | Available from another library
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With its answers to questions such as What is time? and What is space?, this clear, nontechnical treatment makes the principles of relativity more accessible to the general reader. The author gradually introduces Einstein's theory in terms of familiar concepts from high school-level geometry, utilizing more than 60 drawings to illuminate profound yet often simple ideas.
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[1996], c1956 | 5th ed. | MJF Books | 166 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. | English | Available from another library
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In 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left Europe permanently to join the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein visited Princeton University, where he delivered the Stafford Little Lectures for that year. These four lectures constituted an overview of his then-controversial theory of relativity. Princeton University Press made the lectures available under the title...
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2019. | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | Simon & Schuster | xx, 538 pages, 16 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm | English | Available from another library
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2019 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster | English | Checked Out
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"Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history's worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then,...
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2011 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking's book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin--and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending--or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends?
Told in language we all can understand, A Brief
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[2016] | Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing | 48 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available from another library
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"Take a look into the fascinating world of physics, why it is an intriguing STEM career, and the amazing work scientists in this field have accomplished throughout the years"--Publisher's website.
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Collected here are nineteen of Nikola Tesla's essays, letters, and speeches complete with over 200 captioned figures. Now you can read these famous articles as they were intended to be read. Included are 'A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers'; 'Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination'; 'Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High...
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Fluid dynamics, the behavior of liquids and gases, is a field of broad impact that encompasses aspects of physics, engineering, oceanography, and meteorology. Full understanding demands fluency in higher mathematics, the only language of fluid dynamics. This introductory text is geared toward advanced undergraduate and graduate students in applied mathematics, engineering, and the physical sciences. It assumes a knowledge of calculus and vector analysis....
12) States of Matter
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This unique overview by a prominent CalTech physicist provides a modern, rigorous, and integrated treatment of the key physical principles and techniques related to gases, liquids, solids, and their phase transitions. No other single volume offers such comprehensive coverage of the subject, and the treatment consistently emphasizes areas in which research results are likely to be applicable to other disciples. Starting with a chapter on thermodynamics...
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2016. | First American edition. | Riverhead Books | 86 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm | English | Available from another library
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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'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, simple lessons guide us through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, a founder of the loop quantum gravity theory. explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum...
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[2017] | Charlesbridge | 1 volume (unpaged : on board pages) : color illustrations ; 18 cm | English |
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Big, brainy science for the littlest listeners. Accurate enough to satisfy an expert, yet simple enough for baby, this clever board book explores the transfer of energy as it flows from the sun to an apple to baby. Beautiful, visually stimulating illustrations complement age-appropriate language to encourage baby's sense of wonder. Parents and caregivers may learn a thing or two, as well!
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Rene Descartes is perhaps most remembered for declaring, "I think; therefore, I am." First published in 1644, Descartes's "Principles of Philosophy" elucidates the meaning of those words that ushered in a new era of philosophical thought. Unlike the medieval philosophers who often began by examining the existence and nature of God in a spirit of faith, Descartes begins by reflecting upon himself as one who doubts but who nonetheless desires certain...
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2011, �2008 | Pocket Star Books | 454 pages ; 18 cm | Available from another library
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2008 | 1st Touchstone hardcover ed. | Simon & Schuster | 359 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. | Available from another library
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p2008 | Abridged. | Audioworks | 5 sound discs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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When his physicist mentor is murdered for his possible knowledge about Einstein's Unified Field Theory, physics professor David Swift is swept up by a violent struggle for control of the information and its staggering potential.
17) Newton and me
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c2010 | Sylvan Dell Pub | [32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm. | English | Available from another library
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While at play with his dog, Newton, a young boy discovers the laws of force and motion in everyday activities such as throwing a ball, pulling a wagon, and riding a bike. Includes "For Creative Minds" section.
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An inspiring collection of essays, in which Albert Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher, and humanitarian. Divided by subject matter - "Science," "Convictions and Beliefs," "Public Affairs," etc. - these essays consider everything from the need for a "supranational" governing body to control war in the atomic age to freedom in research and education to Jewish history and Zionism to explanations of the physics...
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The Authorized Albert Einstein Archives Edition: An homage to the men and women of science, and an exposition of Einstein's place in scientific history. In this fascinating collection of articles and speeches, Albert Einstein reflects not only on the scientific method at work in his own theoretical discoveries, but also eloquently expresses a great appreciation for his scientific contemporaries and forefathers, including Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton,...
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The Authorized Albert Einstein Archives Edition: A fascinating collection of Einstein's observations about life, religion, nationalism, and a host of personal topics that engaged the genius's intellect. In the aftermath of the First World War, Albert Einstein writes about his hopes for the League of Nations, his feelings as a German citizen about the growing anti-Semitism and nationalism of his country, and his myriad opinions about the current affairs...