Science:

Simple Guides The Quest For Speed

Written by Peter Gosling

Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $10.95

Man’s quest for speed is driven by two ambitions. One is the competitive urge to excel — to go as fast as possible by any available means, and preferably to go faster than anybody else. The other, more practical, aim is to make travel and transport as swift and efficient as... Read more >

Relativity and Quantum Physics For Beginners

Written by Steven L. Manly
Illustrated by Steven Fournier

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $14.99

As we humans have expanded our horizons to see things vastly smaller, faster, larger, and farther than ever before, we have been forced to confront preconceptions born of the human experience and create wholly new ways of looking at the world around us.  The theories of relativity and quantum physics were... Read more >

The Age of Entanglement
When Quantum Physics Was Reborn
Written by Louisa Gilder

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $17.00

In The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder brings to life one of the pivotal debates in twentieth century physics. In 1935, Albert Einstein famously showed that, according to the quantum theory, separated particles could act as if intimately connected–a phenomenon which he derisively described as “spooky action at a distance.” In... Read more >

The Book of Nothing
Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe
Written by John D. Barrow

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $15.95

From one of our foremost mathematicians and cosmologists comes this fascinating exploration of the surprisingly substantial and varied nature of nothing.

With unassailable expertise and a proven ability to make complex theories and ideas clearly accessible, John Barrow examines and explains every aspect of nothingness. From the zeros of mathematicians to the... Read more >

The Constants of Nature
The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe
Written by John Barrow

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $15.95

Reality as we know it is bound by a set of constants—numbers and values that dictate the strengths of forces like gravity, the speed of light, and the masses of elementary particles. In The Constants of Nature, Cambridge Professor and bestselling author John D.Barrow takes us on an exploration of these... Read more >

Physics of the Impossible
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Written by Michio Kaku

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $15.95

Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships—the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Inspired by the fantastic worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Back to the Future, renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku takes an informed, serious, and often surprising look at what... Read more >

The Age of Entanglement
When Quantum Physics Was Reborn
Written by Louisa Gilder

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $27.50

A brilliantly original and richly illuminating exploration of entanglement, the seemingly telepathic communication between two separated particles—one of the fundamental concepts of quantum physics.

In 1935, in what would become the most cited of all of his papers, Albert Einstein showed that quantum mechanics predicted such a correlation, which he dubbed “spooky... Read more >

Physics of the Impossible
A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Written by Michio Kaku
Read by Feodor Chin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $22.50

A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.

One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical... Read more >

Physics of the Impossible
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Written by Michio Kaku

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $27.95

A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.

One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical...

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Physics of the Impossible
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Written by Michio Kaku

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $15.95

A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.

One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical... Read more >

The Fabric of the Cosmos
Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Written by Brian Greene

Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95

From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.

Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does... Read more >

The Infinite Book
A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless
Written by John D. Barrow

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95

For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter infinitely... Read more >

A Shortcut Through Time
The Path to the Quantum Computer
Written by George Johnson

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00

In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing—the holy grail of super computers where the computing power of single atoms is harnassed to create machines capable... Read more >

Programming the Universe
A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
Written by Seth Lloyd

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.00

Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer? According to Seth Lloyd, the answer is yes.

All interactions between particles in the universe, Lloyd explains, convey not only energy but also information–in other words, particles not only collide, they compute. What is the entire universe computing, ultimately? “Its own dynamical evolution,”... Read more >

The Infinite Book
A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless
Written by John D. Barrow

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95

For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter infinitely... Read more >

My Einstein
Essays by the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy
Edited by John Brockman

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 25, 2006
Price: $14.95

Albert Einstein’s bold mark on our understanding of the world, which has persisted now for more than a century, shows no sign of fading. On the contrary, Einstein and his work promise to inspire, enlighten, and confound us for decades—indeed, for centuries—to come.

In this fascinating volume, today’s foremost scientists discuss their... Read more >

Parallel Worlds
A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Written by Michio Kaku

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.95

Is our universe dying?
Could there be other universes?
In Parallel Worlds, world-renowned physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku—an author who “has a knack for bringing the most ethereal ideas down to earth” (Wall Street Journal)—takes readers on a fascinating tour of cosmology, M-theory, and its implications for the fate of the... Read more >

Programming the Universe
A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
Written by Seth Lloyd

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $16.00

Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer? According to Seth Lloyd, the answer is yes.

All interactions between particles in the universe, Lloyd explains, convey not only energy but also information–in other words, particles not only collide, they compute. What is the entire universe computing, ultimately? “Its own dynamical evolution,”... Read more >

Programming the Universe
A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos
Written by Seth Lloyd

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $25.95

Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer? According to Seth Lloyd—Professor of Quantum-Mechanical Engineering at MIT and originator of the first technologically feasible design for a working quantum computer—the answer is yes. This wonderfully accessible book illuminates the professional and personal paths that led him to this remarkable conclusion.

All interactions... Read more >

Electric Universe
How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
Written by David Bodanis

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $15.00

In Electric Universe, David Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through a lucid account of the invisible force that permeates our universe. In these pages the virtuoso scientists who plumbed the secrets of electricity come vividly to life, including familiar giants like Thomas Edison; the visionary Michael Faraday... Read more >

Parallel Worlds
A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Written by Michio Kaku

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $16.00

In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most tantalizing of all, the possibility that parallel universes may lay alongside our own.

Kaku skillfully guides us through the latest... Read more >

Deep Simplicity
Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
Written by John Gribbin

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2005
Price: $24.95

Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–from biology to physics, computing to meteorology–than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex systems. Now astrophysicist John Gribbin draws on his expertise to explore, in prose... Read more >

Electric Universe
The Shocking True Story of Electricity
Written by David Bodanis

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2005
Price: $15.00

In his bestselling E=mc2, David Bodanis led us, with astonishing ease, through the world’s most famous equation. Now, in Electric Universe, he illuminates the wondrous yet invisible force that permeates our universe—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets.

For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a... Read more >

The Fabric of the Cosmos
Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Written by Brian Greene

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $16.95

From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.

Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most... Read more >

The Constants of Nature
The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe
Written by John Barrow

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $15.95

Reality as we know it is bound by a set of constants—numbers and values that dictate the strengths of forces like gravity, the speed of light, and the masses of elementary particles. In The Constants of Nature, Cambridge Professor and bestselling author John D.Barrow takes us on an exploration of these... Read more >