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A Short History Of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson follows his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. From the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. The result is a profound, funny, and wonderfully clear and entertaining adventure into the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it.
Physics
by Douglas C Giancoli
For algebra-based introductory physics courses taken primarily by pre-med, agricultural, technology, and architectural students.
This best-selling algebra-based physics text is known for its elegant writing, engaging biological applications, and exactness. Physics: Principles with Applications, 6e retains the careful exposition and precision of previous editions with many interesting new applications and carefully crafted new pedagogy. It was written to give students the basic concepts of physics... Read more about this item
This best-selling algebra-based physics text is known for its elegant writing, engaging biological applications, and exactness. Physics: Principles with Applications, 6e retains the careful exposition and precision of previous editions with many interesting new applications and carefully crafted new pedagogy. It was written to give students the basic concepts of physics... Read more about this item
Introduction To Electrodynamics
by David J Griffiths
About the Book This book is known for its clear, concise and accessible coverage of standard topics in a logical and pedagogically sound order. The Third Edition features a clear, accessible treatment of the fundamentals of electromagnetic theory, providing a sound platform for the exploration of related applications (ac circuits, antennas, transmission lines, plasmas, optics, etc.). Its lean and focused approach employs numerous examples and problems. More About Title Friendly, informal style. Clear...
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Cosmos
by Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University; Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; and the cofounder and President of the Planetary Society, the largest space-interest group in the world. For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, he was an adviser on the Mariner, Voyager, and Viking unmanned space missions, and he briefed...
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A Brief History Of Time
by Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time is a popular science book written by Stephen Hawking and first published by the Bantam Dell Publishing Group in 1988. It became a best-seller and has sold more than 9 million copies. It was also on the London Sunday Times best-seller list for more than four years. There is also a documentary by the same name, directed by Errol Morris and released in 1991. Unlike the book, the documentary is primarily a biography of Stephen Hawking.
A Brief History Of Time
by Stephen W Hawking
A Brief History of Time is a popular science book written by Stephen Hawking and first published by the Bantam Dell Publishing Group in 1988. It became a best-seller and has sold more than 9 million copies. It was also on the London Sunday Times best-seller list for more than four years. There is also a documentary by the same name, directed by Errol Morris and released in 1991. Unlike the book, the documentary is primarily a biography of Stephen Hawking.
Optics
by Eugene Hecht
Optics, Fifth Edition is distinguished by three core imperatives for the reader: up-to-date content in line with the ever-evolving technological advances in the Optics field; a modern approach to discourse including studies on photons, phasors, and theory; and improvements and revisions to the previous edition’s pedagogy including over one hundred new worked examples.
The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe is a book by Brian Greene published in 1999 which introduces string theory and provides a comprehensive though non-technical assessment of the theory and some of its shortcomings.
The Road To Reality
by Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. In 1988 he shared the Wolf Prize for physics with Stephen Hawking for their joint contribution to our understanding of the universe.From the Hardcover edition.
Annals Of the Former World
by John McPhee
Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book presents a geological history of North America, and was researched and written over the course of two decades beginning in 1978."Most mountain ranges around the world are the result of compression, of segments of the earth's crust being brought together, bent, mashed, thrust and folded, squeezed up into the sky-- the...
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Einstein
by Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson, presidente del Instituto Aspen, ha sido presidente de la CNN y director ejecutivo de la revista Time. Es autor de Einstein, su vida y su universo (Debate, 2008), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life y Kissinger: A Biography, y es coautor, con Evan Thomas, de The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Vive con su mujer en Washington, D.C.Walter Isaacson is the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of...
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Organic Chemistry
by John E McMurry
A best-selling text for organic chemistry students, this text boasts illustrations, problems, and media-based “Organic Knowledge Tools.”
The Fabric Of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality is the second book on theoretical physics, cosmology, and string theory written by Brian Greene, professor and co-director of Columbia's Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics (ISCAP).
The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual
by James W Zubrick
Written for the laboratory that accompanies the sophomore/junior level
courses in Organic Chemistry, Zubrick provides students with a valuable
guide to the basic techniques of the Organic Chemistry lab. The book will
help students understand and practice good lab safety. It will also help
students become familiar with basic instrumentation, techniques and
apparatus and help them master the latest techniques such as interpretation
of infrared spectroscopy. The guide is mostly macroscale in its
orientation.
courses in Organic Chemistry, Zubrick provides students with a valuable
guide to the basic techniques of the Organic Chemistry lab. The book will
help students understand and practice good lab safety. It will also help
students become familiar with basic instrumentation, techniques and
apparatus and help them master the latest techniques such as interpretation
of infrared spectroscopy. The guide is mostly macroscale in its
orientation.
The Tao Of Physics
by Fritjof Capra
The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism is a book by physicist Fritjof Capra, published in 1975 by Shambhala Publications of Berkeley, California. It was a bestseller in the United States, and has been published in 43 editions in 23 languages. The fourth edition in English was published in 2000.
Relativity
by Albert Einstein
The Nobel Prize-winning scientist's presentation of his landmark theoryAccording to Einstein himself, this book is intended "to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics." When he wrote the book in 1916, Einstein's name was scarcely known outside the physics institutes. Having just completed his...
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Six Easy Pieces
by Richard P Feynman
The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a 1964 physics textbook by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, based upon the lectures given by Feynman to undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1961–63. It includes lectures on mathematics, electromagnetism, Newtonian physics, quantum physics, and even the relation of physics to other sciences.
Physical Sciences Books & Ephemera
Electronic Structure and the Properties of Solids : The Physics of the Chemical Bond
by Walter A. Harrison
Freeman & Company, W. H., 1980. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 10.91
Geophysics, realism, and industry
by Arduaga, A
Oxford University Press, 2016. 1st edition. Pictorial hard covers. Fine/No Jacket. Scarcely used.
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SGD 41.40
Tropical rain forest: a wider perspective
by Goldsmith, F.B
Chapman & Hall, 1998. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Inscribed by the author 'Barrie Goldsmith'.
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SGD 62.09
Organometallic Chemistry: Volume 15
by E W Abel
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Organometallic Chemistry: Volume 15.
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SGD 594.52
The Universe In A Nutshell: the beautifully illustrated follow up to Professor Stephen Hawking's bestselling masterpiece A Brief History of Time
by Hawking, Stephen William
Bantam Press, 05/11/2001. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Jacket. 25 to 30 cm tall, Quarto, (4to). Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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SGD 8.18
The Handy Physics Answer Book
by Gundersen, P. Erik
Barnes & Noble. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1999. Hardcover. 0760746508 . 9.30 X 7.40 X 1.30 inches .
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SGD 17.23
Signed NASA Photograph
by COOPER, Gordon (1927 - 2004)
Hampton, VA, 1960. unbound. Exceptional 9.5 x 8-inch vintage 1960 NASA training photo of Cooper strapped in a procedure trainer at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, fully outfitted in a spacesuit, familiarizing himself with the controls of a spacecraft. Boldly signed using his real name "Leroy G. Cooper, Jr." Photograph I.D. NASA G-60-2613, with imprint caption on the back. Bottom edge trimmed; paperclip impression in the upper left corner; glue stains on the back. Very good(-)...
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SGD 482.54
Urban Ecology: A Teacher's Resource Book
by Collins, Martin
Paperback. Acceptable.
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SGD 1.36
Outlines of palaeontology
by Swinnerton, H.H
London: Edward Arnold, 1930. 2nd edition. Hard covers. V.g./No Jacket. Prize bookplate. Little used. x, 420 pp.
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SGD 20.70
Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1903
by DAY, David T
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1904. Hardcover. First edition. Acceptable first edition hardcover is rubbed at the spine ends and corners, 2 inch tear along front top edge of spine with a crease across the front cover, corners lightly bent, the first approx. 300 pages (of 1204 pages) have a 1/2 inch tear at the top edge near the spine, text is clean.
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SGD 27.57
A history and bibliography of the study of fossil vertebrate footprints in the British Isles
by Sargeant, W.A
Elsevier, 1974. Offprint from Palaeo journal vol. 16 no. 4. Paper covers, plastic clip bound. Good/No Jacket. Author's inscription.
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SGD 62.09
Elemenatary Geology Applied to Prospecting
by Walker, John F
Victoria : Department of Mines , 1955 . Fifth . . . Illustrated in black and white with a number of foldouts including large chart at the rear for field identification of minerals. Light wear, owner's signature on cover.
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SGD 11.03
Fossicker's Guide to Gold, Minerals and Gemstones of South Australia
by Dallow, Len
East Malvern: Gemcraft Publications. 1983. Oblong Octavo Size [approx 22x15cm].. Very Good condition. Black & white Maps. Uniformly faded cover. Some minor marks to interior. Small stain to top of rear cover. Scarce! 148 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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SGD 265.82
The End Of Physics: The Myth Of A Unified Theory
by David Lindley
Paperback / softback. New. "For more than a century physicists have hoped that they were closing in on the Holy Grail of modern science: a unified theory that would make sense of the entire physical world, from the subnuclear re"
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SGD 48.54
Hydrology in Practice
by Elizabeth M. Shaw
Paperback / softback. New. An introductory text for engineering hydrology students who go on to be practitioners in consultancies, the Environment Agency and elsewhere. It is suitable for second and final year undergraduates (and MSc) students of hydrology in Engineering, Environmental Science and Geography Departments across the globe.
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SGD 92.69
EXPLORING SPACE WITH A CAMERA
by Edgar M. Cortright (Ed)
pages slightly yellowing: col and B&W foto's thru'out text: 214pp incl index:
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SGD 21.23
Challenged Earth : An Overview of Humanity's Stewardship of Earth
by Lincoln, Stephen F
London: Imperial College Press. 2006. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards - as issued. Illustrated with black & white maps and diagrams. Inscribed by author to previous previous owner (fellow academic) - " John - I do hope that you will find the contents of interest. Best Wishes Steve". 533 pages. Presents an overview of humanity's interactions with Earth at the beginning of a new century and how the necessity for humanity...
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SGD 45.06
Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives
by Michio Kaku
Paperback / softback. New. We all wish we could predict the future, but most of us don't know enough about the science that makes it possible. This title is a hypothetical journey through the next 100 years of scientific innovation, as told by the scientists who are making it happen.
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SGD 19.13
The Essentials Of Qualitative Analysis
by Holderness, A. & Lambert, John
William Heinemann Ltd, 1948. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book Red card wraps. 64 pages. Ink annotation to contents. Item Type: Book. Category: Science & Technology; Chemistry; Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 005578. .
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SGD 6.04
Organic Chemistry
by Carey, Francis A
Boston et al.: McGraw-Hill, 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mostly white laminated pictorial boards, maroon & dark blue titles, xxxviii, 1108, A-79, G-23, C-1, I-31 pp (1280 pp in all), glossary, index, tables on endpapers, CD (ISBN 0-07-241747-1) in sleeve laid in. Clean, slight wear & a bumped corner. This textbook was intended for use in a two-semester undergraduate organic chemistry course. CD contains software that runs under Windows 95/98...
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SGD 62.03
Inorganic Chemistry of the Transition Elements: Volume 3
by B F G Johnson
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Inorganic Chemistry of the Transition Elements: Volume 3.
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SGD 594.52
Electron Spin Resonance: Volume 4
by P B Ayscough
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Electron Spin Resonance: Volume 4.
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SGD 594.52
Mines and their story
by Mannix, B
Sidgwick & Jackson, 1913. 1st edition. Pictorial hard covers. V.g./No Jacket. Slight edge wear; a few carelessly opened folios. xviii, 337 pp.
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SGD 55.19
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