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Exploring the Art and Science of Stopping Time : A CD-ROM Based on the Life and Work of Harold E. Edgerton
Harold E. Edgerton
Other - $70.95
Insightful scientist, exceptional teacher, ingenious inventor, successful entrepreneur, and acclaimed artist-Harold E. "Doc" Edgerton, chief developer of the electronic strobe, was all of these. Whatever his guise, he taught by his own example that s ...
The Nature of Time
Raymond Flood
Paperback - $54.95
"An excellent introduction to modern thinking on an age-old mystery".--John Gribbin, Physics. The contributors include philosophers, physicists, and mathematicians.
Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps : Empires of Time
Peter Galison
Paperback - $26.95
"In Galison's telling of science, the meters and wires and epoxy and solder come alive as characters, along with physicists, engineers, technicians and others . . . Galison has unearthed fascinating material." ("New York Times").
Faster : The Acceleration of Just about Everything
James Gleick
Paperback - $23.95
From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated auhtor of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world.
Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the " ...
Measuring Eternity : The Search for the Beginning of Time
Martin Gorst
Paperback - $24.95
The untold story of the religious figures, philosophers, astronomers, geologists, physicists, and mathematicians who, for more than four hundred years, have pursued the answer to a fundamental question at the intersection of science and religion: Whe ...
Time Travel in Einstein's Universe : The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time
III Gott
Paperback - $24.95
Time travel in Newton's universe was inconceivable, but in Einstein's universe it has become a possibility. Now, a Princeton astrophysicist gives readers a guided tour of the potential of traveling through time. Line drawings.
A Sideways Look at Time
Jay Griffiths
Paperback - $26.95
Taking readers on a mind-bending tour of time as we know it, this "amusing and erudite" ("The Times Literary Supplement") book reintroduces readers to dimensions of time that are largely forgotten today.
Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry
J. J. Halliwell
Paperback - $170.95
Reconciliation of these profoundly conflicting facts is the topic of this volume. It is an interdisciplinary survey of the variety of interconnected phenomena defining arrows of time, and their possible explanations in term of underlying time symmetr ...
