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Physical Sciences Books

Shape
by Jordan Ellenberg
Review
Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World
by Brian Clegg
Review
Freeing Energy
by Bill Nussey
Review
Eight Improbable Possibilities
by John Gribbin
Review
A Biography of the Pixel
by Alvy Ray Smith
Review
Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe
by Brian Clegg
Review
Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe
by Daniel Whiteson and Jorge Cham
Review
The Disc Embedding Theorem
by Stefan Behrens, Boldizsar Kalmar, Min Hoon Kim, Mark Powell and Arunima Ray
Review
The Great Indian Mathematicians
by Gaurav Tekriwal
Review
The Star Builders
by Arthur Turrell
Review
Across the Airless Wilds
by Earl Swift
Review
The Soul of Genius
by Jeffrey Orens
Review
Flashes of Creation
by Paul Halpern
Review
How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch
by Harry Cliff
Review
Fear of a Black Universe
by Stephon Alexander
Review
About Time
by David Rooney
Review
What’s the Use?
by Ian Stewart
Review
Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond
by Ashley Jean Yeager
Review
The Burning Blue
by Kevin Cook
Review
The Light Ages
by Seb Falk
Review
Mercury Rising
by Jeff Shesol
Review
Bands and Photons in III-V Semiconductor Quantum Structures
by Igor Vurgaftman, Jerry R. Meyer, Matthew P. Lumb
Review
The Light Ages
by Seb Falk
Review
Light in the Darkness
by Heino Falcke
Review
The Perfect Police State
by Geoffrey Cain
Review
Reimagining Time
by Tanya Bub and Jeffrey Bub
Review
Particle Detectors
by Hermann Kolanoski and Norbert Wermes
Review
Journey to the Edge of Reason
by Stephen Budiansky
Review
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
by Bimal Bhattacharya, George P. Petropoulos, Heiko Balzter, Prashant K. Srivastava, Prem Chandra Pandey
Review
Test Gods
by Nicholas Schmidle
Review
Genesis
by Guido Tonelli
Review
Music, Math, and Mind
by David Sulzer
Review
Linear and Nonlinear Optics
by Kitsakorn Locharoenrat
Review
The God Equation
by Michio Kaku
Review
Helgoland
by Carlo Rovelli
Review
Lunar Outfitters
by Bill Ayrey
Review
Hawking Hawking
by Charles Seife
Review
Einstein’s Fridge
by Paul Sen
Review
The Disordered Cosmos
by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Review
Organic Electronics
by Stephen R. Forrest
Review
The Data Detective
by Tim Harford
Review
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
by Frank Wilczek
Review
Life After Gravity
by Patricia Fara
Review
Robots in Space
by Dr Ezzy Pearson
Review
Fractals: On the Edge of Chaos
by Oliver Linton
Review
Liftoff
by Eric Berger
Review
The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy
by Arik Kershenbaum
Review
Marie Curie: The Pioneer, The Nobel Laureate
by Richard Gunderman
Review
The Mission
by David W. Brown
Review
Probable Impossibilities
by Alan Lightman
Review
First Light
by Emma Chapman
Review
Prime Suspects
by Andrew Granville, Jennifer Granville, and Robert J. Lewis
Review
Multiplex and Multilevel Networks
by Antonios Garas, Guido Caldarelli, Stefano Battiston
Review
The Shadow of the Black Hole
by John W. Moffat
Review
Telling Aircraft Tails
by Guy Halford-MacLeod
Review
How to Astronaut
by Terry Virts
Review
Synchronicity
by Paul Halpern
Review
A Billion Little Pieces
by Jordan Frith
Review
The Sun: a Very Short Introduction
by Philip Judge
Review
Nanophotonic Chemical Reactions
by Takashi Yatsui
Review
Advanced Quantum Condensed Matter Physics
by Michael El-Batanouny
Review
A Series of Fortunate Events
by Sean B Carroll
Review
Einstein in Bohemia
by Michael D. Gordin
Review
Introducing Photonics
by Brian Culshaw
Review
Black Hole Survival Guide
by Janna Levin
Review
AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Peter Dauvergne
Review
Operation Moonglow
by Teasel Muir-Harmony
Review
Everyday Chaos
by David Weinberger
Review
Computer Age Statistical Inference
by Bradley Efron and Trevor Hastie
Review
The Human Cosmos
by Jo Marchant
Review
Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way
by Will Kurt
Review
Introduction to Computer Holography
by Kyoji Matsushima
Review
Photonics and Fiber Optics
by Tarun Kumar Gangopadhyay, Pathik Kumbhakar and Mrinal Kanti Mandal
The Apocalypse Factory
by Steve Olson
Review
The Number Bias: How Numbers Lead and Mislead Us
by Sanne Blauw
Review
The End of Everything
by Katie Mack
Review
Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
by Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
Review
Introduction to Quantum Electronics and Nonlinear Optics
by Vitaliy V. Shtykov and Sergey M. Smolskiy
Review
Principles of Medical Imaging for Engineers
by Michael Chappell
Review
ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor
by Michel Claessens
Review
Modern Optics Simplified
by Robert D. Guenther
Review
Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
by Lucy Jane Santos
Review
War in Space
by Bleddyn Bowen
Review
Evan James Williams: Atomic Physicist
by Rowland Wynne
Review
The Smallest Lights in the Universe
by Sara Seager
Review
Optical Communications
by Martin Sibley
Review
Quantum Mechanics for Beginners
by M. Suhail Zubairy
Review
Mage Merlin’s Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries
by Satyan Devadoss and Matt Harvey
Review
How We’ll Live on Mars
by Stephen Petranek
Review
The Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
by Amirouche Moktefi, Robin Wilson
Review
Fractional Diffusion Equations and Anomalous Diffusion
by Ervin Kaminski Lenzi, Luiz Roberto Evangelista
Review
A Student’s Guide to Atomic Physics
by Mark Fox
Review
What Stars Are Made Of
by Donovan Moore
Review
Handbook of Lasers
by Marvin J. Weber
Review
Women in Mathematics
by Janet L. Beery, Sarah J. Greenwald, Jacqueline A. Jensen-Vallin, and Maura B. Mast
Review
The Drone Age
by Michael J. Boyle
Review
How to Die in Space
by Paul Sutter
Review
The View from Space
by Richard B. Leshner, Thor Hogan
Review
The Man Who Solved the Market
by Gregory Zuckerman
Review
Alien Oceans
by Kevin Hand
Review
Galileo: And the Science Deniers
by Mario Livio
Review
Empires of the Sky
by Alexander Rose
Review
Rebel Star: Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun
by Colin Stuart
Review
The Dream Universe
by David Lindley
Review
The World According to Physics
by Jim Al-Khalili
Review
Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain
by Craig Barton
Review
The Universe
by Lonely Planet
Review
Optical WDM Networks: From Static to Elastic Networks
by Devi Chadha
Review
Spacefarers
by Christopher Wanjek
Review
Multiphoton Microscopy
by Espen Hartveit
Review
Physics and Psychics
by Richard Noakes
Review
The Contact Paradox
by Keith Cooper
Review
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World
by David Kaiser
Review
Until the End of Time
by Brian Greene
Review
A Compendium of Mathematical Methods
by Jo Morgan
Review
Fundamentals of Quantum Entanglement
by F. J. Duarte
Review
Glass Micro- and Nanospheres: Physics and Applications
by Giancarlo C. Righini
Review
Introduction to Optical Microscopy
by Jerome Mertz
Review
The New International System of Units (SI)
by Ernst O. Göbel and Uwe Siegner
Review
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019
by Mircea Pitici
Review

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