Search Results: Science-Physics from Adelaide Booksellers

London: Quercus. 2013. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards in a very good dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made plastic sleeve. Black & white diagrams. 208 pages. This is the perfect introduction to quantum physics for the non-specialist, from a writer with a real gift for making its most complex and challenging concepts readily comprehensible to the layperson. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Macmillan. 2000. Octavo Size [approx 15x22cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 324 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Vermont: Threshold Books. 1996. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 338 pages. Shows the connection between the findings of the new physics and the insights of the great mystics. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. xviii, 185 pages. An introduction to Roger Penrose's vision of theoretical physics for the 21st century with contributions from Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright and Stephen Hawking. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.

Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2002. Very Good condition. Several small ink notations to the rear free endpaper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 494 pages. At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only consist of filling in the details. They could hardly have been more wrong. The past century has seen the rise of quantum mechanics, relativity, cosmology, particle physics, and solid-state physics, among other fields. One of the world's leading historians of physics, presents a sweeping account of all these extraordinary achievements of the twentieth century. . 1st Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback.

London: Harrap. 1973. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 208 pages. With a Foreword by Professor John Bunyan, a history of the microscope which is also an examination of the consciousness of the unseen world and its implications for science and civilization. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: The Folio Society. 2007. .Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine Slipcase. Black & white illustrations. 137 pages. Contents include The Day; Months & Years; Prehistory and history of the modern calendar; Easter; Weeks and Seasons; Other Calendars; and Marking the Year. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.

Gainesville, Georgia: New Classics Library. 2009. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Black & white diagrams. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xvii, 153 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1979. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Spine lightly sun-faded. Black & white illustrations. 167 pages. This book discusses - is time travel really possible? Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.