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  • Destroyer of Worlds

    The Deep History of the Nuclear Age

    by Frank Close ...
    **The thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story—"kinetic, dramatic, and compulsively readable" (Patchen Barss)—of the physicists that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bombA Guardian Best Book of the Year**Although Henri Becquerel didn’t know it at the time, he changed history in 1896 when he left photographic plates and some uranium rocks in a drawer. The rocks emitted something that ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Trinity

    The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History

    by Frank Close ...
    'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR.Against the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Infinity Puzzle

    The personalities, politics, and extraordinary science behind the Higgs boson

    by Frank Close ...
    We are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago, three brilliant, yet little-known scientists - an American, a Dutchman, and an Englishman - made breakthroughs which later inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva: a 27 kilometre-long machine that cost ten billion dollars, took twenty years to build, and finally discovered a particle consistent with ... Read more

    $11.89 CAD

  • Nuclear Physics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Frank Close ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the 19th century, which implied the existence of a positive charge in the atom to make it neutral. In this Very Short Introduction Frank Close gives an account of how this area of physics has progressed, including the recognition of how heavy nuclei are built ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Small Things and Nothing

    by Frank Close ...
    Frank Close breaks down complex concepts in physics in this collection of three of his bestselling books. Including Neutrino, Antimatter, and The Void, this set brings to life the fascinating science of particle physics, neutrinos, antimatter, and nothing. Combing the knowledge of a renowned physicist with the art of a skilled writer, enter the world of physics in an enthralling and readable way. ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Infinity Puzzle

    How the Hunt to Understand the Universe Led to Extraordinary Science, High Politics, and the Large Hadron Collider

    by Frank Close ...
    We are living in a Golden Age of physics. With the mind of a scientist and the skill of a journalist, bestselling author and renowned physicist Frank Close gives us an insider's look at one of the most inspiring - and challenging - scientific breakthroughs of our time: the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.About 40 years ago, 3 brilliant, yet little-known scientists made breakthroughs that later ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Neutrino

    by Frank Close ...
    What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they?Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed in certain radioactive decays, they pass through most matter with ease. These tiny, ghostly particles are formed in millions in the Sun and pass through us constantly. For a long time they were thought to be massless, and passing as they do like ghosts they ... Read more

    $10.39 CAD

  • Theories of Everything: Ideas in Profile

    by Frank Close ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Physicist Frank Close takes the reader to the frontiers of science in a vividly told investigation of revolutionary science and enterprise from the seventeenth century to the present. He looks at what has been meant by theories of everything, explores the scientific breakthroughs they have allowed, and shows the far-reaching effects they have had on crucial aspects of life and belief. Theories of ... Read more

    $9.09 CAD

  • Nothing: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Frank Close ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our very latest discoveries and why they can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos.Frank Close tells ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Particle Odyssey

    A Journey to the Heart of Matter

    by Frank Close, Michael Marten, Christine Sutton ...
    During the 20th century, scientists discovered what the Universe is made of; as the 21st century begins, they are preparing experiments to find out how it came to be like this. This great adventure, which will involve a metaphorical journey back in time to within a billionth of a second of the Big Bang, is the latest stage in the quest to understand the nature of the matter that makes our Universe ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Lucifer's Legacy

    The Meaning of Asymmetry

    by Frank Close ...
    "This is Frank Close's masterpiece — his best book, and one of the very best introductions to physics for the layperson. Close is a master expositor." — The (London) Sunday Times"Close's writing is beguiling, mingling personal and historical anecdote with carefully measured doses of exposition in such a way as to guide the reader painlessly into rather deep intellectual waters." — N**ature"Life, ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • The New Cosmic Onion

    Quarks and the Nature of the Universe

    by Frank Close ...
    Series series Discovering Physics
    Not since Newton's apple has there been a physics phenomenon as deliciously appealing to the masses as Frank Close's Cosmic Onion. Widely embraced by scientists and laypersons alike, the book quickly became an international bestseller. Translated into seven languages, it propelled the author to become a worldwide celebrity as well as an inspi ... Read more

    Was $81.99 CAD Now $72.82 CAD