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The Primordial Density Perturbation: Cosmology, Inflation and the Origin of Structure by David Lyth and Andrew Liddle, Cambridge University Press. Hardback ISBN 9780521828499, £40 ($75). E-book I...
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The year at CERN has been dominated by preparations to restart the LHC and embark on explorations of the high-energy frontier. At the same time, the LHC machine has entered popular consciousness, with...
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LEP – The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN, 1980–2000: The Making, Operation and Legacy of the World’s Largest Scientific Instrument by Herwig Schopper, Springer. Hardback ISBN 978...
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The Large Hadron Collider: a Marvel of Technology by Lyndon Evans (ed), EPFL Press. Paperback ISBN 97829400222346, €45 (SFr69). Edited by Lyn Evans, the LHC project leader, this book outlines in...
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo, Faber. Hardback ISBN 9780571222780, £22.50. On 13 November 1995 the president of the Royal Society, Sir Mi...
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The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century by István Hargittai, Oxford University Press. Paperback ISBN 9780195365566, £8.99 ($15.95). The music was enchantin...
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Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics by Alessandro Bettini, Cambridge University Press. Hardback ISBN 9780521880213, £35 ($70). Also available in e-book format. I was a graduate stude...
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Relativity: A Very Short Introduction by Russell Stannard, Oxford University Press. Paperback ISBN 9780199236220, £7.99. In the series of Very Short Introductions by Oxford University Press there...
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind, Little Brown and Company. Hardback ISBN 9780316016407, $27.99. Despite appearances,...
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Books received Order, Disorder and Criticality: Advanced Problems of Phase Transition Theory (Volume 2) edited by Yurij Holovatch, World Scientific. Hardback ISBN 9789812707673 £46 ($85). Th...
