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1. The Birth of a New Physics

   I. Bernard Cohen

   Revised and Updated

   The earth circles the sun every year and rotates on its axis every twenty-four hours. The earth does not stand still.More

2. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

   Kip S. Thorne

   Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even Einstein himself rejected them.More

3. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

   Neil deGrasse Tyson

   “One of today’s best popularizers of science.”—Kirkus ReviewsMore

4. Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time

   Peter Galison

   "More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre."—New York Times Book ReviewMore

5. Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time

   Michio Kaku

   In paperback for the centenary of the discovery of relativity, "a fresh and highly visual tour through Einstein's astonishing legacy" (Brian Greene).More

6. Energy, Environment, and Climate

   Richard Wolfson

   In this new study of energy use and global climate change, Richard Wolfson outlines basic science concepts as well as specific, contemporary applications in energy production and their environmental consequences.More

7. Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

   David Foster Wallace

   Reprint

   The best-selling author of Infinite Jest on the two-thousand-year-old quest to understand infinity.
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8. Feynman's Lost Lecture

   David L. Goodstein, Judith R. Goodstein

   "Glorious."—Wall Street JournalMore

9. The Future of Spacetime

   Timothy Ferris, Stephen W. Hawking, Alan Lightman, Et Al.

   Where the science of black holes, gravitational waves, and time travel will likely lead us, as reported by spacetime's most important theoreticians and observers.More

10. Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

    Kenneth W. Ford, John Archibald Wheeler

    The autobiography of one of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century physics.More

11. Gravitation and Spacetime

    Hans C. Ohanian, Remo Ruffini

    Second Edition

    A remarkable book has just been made even better.More

12. Introduction to Quantum Physics

    A. P. French, Edwin F. Taylor

13. The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics

    David Toomey

    The story of physicists' quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time?More

14. Newton

    Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen, Richard S. Westfall

    At last—an illuminating and accessible edition of Isaac Newton's writings, intended for nonspecialist readers. I. Bernard Cohen and Richard S. Westfall have meticulously collected representative works from every major aspect of Newton's intellectual life.More

15. Newtonian Mechanics

    A. P. French