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The Higgs Fake: How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee
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Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction
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Elementary Theory of Angular Momentum
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A crucial element in the development of physical theories of nuclear and atomic structure, the theory of angular momentum can be applied with gre...
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Antimatter: What It Is and Why It's Important in Physics and Everyday Life
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Antimatter is one of the most fascinating aspects of Particle Physics, and matter-antimatter annihilation the most energetic process in the unive...
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Matter: A Very Short Introduction
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Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The biggest science story of our time, Massive spans four decades, weaving together the personal narratives and international rivalries behind th...
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Nuclear Physics: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the 1...
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Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry That Created the Nuclear Age
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Called "one of our best science popularizers" by Publishers Weekly, Amir D. Aczel tackles the cause of one of last century's most destructive eve...
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Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem
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Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An account of the remarkable scientists who discovered that nuclear fission was possible and then became concerned about its implications. Index....
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Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surp...
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The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books“A modern voyage of discovery.” —Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author...
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How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Have you ever wondered how a nuclear power station works? This lively book will answer that question. It’ll take you on a journey from the scienc...
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Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /For fans of Oppenheimer, a riveting investigation into the modern nuclear weapons landscape. Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they w...
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for...
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Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Trinity, the debut graphic book by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first ato...
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory / Edition 2
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The Rise of the Standard Model: A History of Particle Physics from 1964 to 1979
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Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new socio...
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Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
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Forces of Nature / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /This is a new edition of Paul Davies' very highly regarded text on high-energy particle physics aimed at the scientifically educated general read...
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The Ideas of Particle Physics / Edition 4
PaperbackOriginal price $47.99 - Original price $47.99Original price $47.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book is a comprehensive introduction to particle physics, bridging the gap between traditional textbooks on the subject and popular accounts...
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Aspects of Symmetry: Selected Erice Lectures
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Elementary Particle Physics: An Intuitive Introduction
HardcoverOriginal price $64.99 - Original price $64.99Original price $64.99$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /This modern introduction to particle physics equips students with the skills needed to develop a deep and intuitive understanding of the physical...
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