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Physics and Dance

Coates Emily, Demers Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780300248371, ISBN: HB: 9780300195835, Yale University Press, November 2019
192 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 62 black&white illus.

From stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the stars at night, we live in a world of motion, energy, space, and time. How do we understand the phenomena that shape our experience? How do we make sense of our physical realities? Two guides...

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Technology & Engineering

Physics

Probing the Sky with Radio Waves From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science

Yeang Chen-Pang

ISBN: PB: 9780226274393, ISBN: HB: 9780226015194, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 68 line illus.

By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. What no one could understand, however, was w...

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Physics

Popular Science

Pseudoscience Wars Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe

Gordin Michael D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101729, ISBN: HB: 9780226304427, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth, triggering widespread natural disasters and threatening the destruction of all life before settling...

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Biography & Memoires

Physics

Pontecorvo Affair A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics

Turchetti Simone

ISBN: HB: 9780226816647, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holiday trip. Because Pontecorvo was known to be an exper...

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Popular Science

Physics

Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection 250 Milestones in the History of Physics

Pickover Clifford A.

ISBN: HB: 9781402778612, GMC Group, Sterling, October 2011
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Following the hugely successful "The Math Book" is a richly illustrated chronology of physics, containing 250 short, entertaining and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Dop...

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