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Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious ScienceBy Marjorie C MalleyOxford University PressHardback: £14.99 $21.95 Between 1899 and 1902, Polish physicist Marie Curie processed 100 kg of rad...
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The Infinity Puzzle: How the quest to understand quantum field theory led to extraordinary science, high politics and the world’s most expensive experimentBy Frank Close Oxford University P...
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Festive Bookshelf Once again, it will soon be time for many of us to spend some time with friends and family, probably after a few hectic hours of searching for presents in this festive season. To hel...
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The Pursuit of Quantum Gravity: Memoirs of Bryce DeWitt from 1946 to 2004By Cécile DeWitt Morette Springer 2011Hardback: £31.99 €36.87 $49.95 Bryce DeWitt’s Lectures on Gravitati...
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Introduction to the Theory of the Universe: Hot Big Bang Theory By Dmitry S Gorbunov and Valery A RubakovWorld ScientificHardback: £103 $158 Paperback: £51 $78 E-book: $200 Introduction to t...
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Numerical Relativity. Solving Einstein’s Equations on the Computer By Thomas W Baumgarte and Stuart L Shapiro Cambridge University Press Hardback: £55 $90 E-book: $72 Symmetries are a power...
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Summer Bookshelf Summer for physicists is the season of conferences, with holidays squeezed in where possible. This year many particle physicists are no doubt already working hard on preparing the lat...
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Induction AcceleratorsBy Ken Takayama and Richard Briggs (eds.)SpringerHardback: €126.55 £108 $169 Of the nearly 30,000 particle accelerators now operating worldwide, few types are as ...
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Neutrino By Frank Close Oxford University Press Hardback: £9.99 “Of all the things that make the universe, the commonest and weirdest are neutrinos.” Thus starts Frank Close’s l...
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BCS: 50 Years By Leon N Cooper and Dmitri Feldman (eds.) World Scientific Hardback: £84 $135 Paperback: £40 $65 More than 50 years after John Bardeen, Leon Cooper and Robert Schrie...
