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  • Albert Einstein Memorial Lectures

    by Raphael Mechoulam, Jacob D Bekenstein ...
    This volume consists of a selection of the Albert Einstein Memorial Lectures presented annually at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Delivered by eminent scientists and scholars, including Nobel laureates, they cover a broad spectrum of subjects in physics, chemistry, life science, mathematics, historiography and social issues.This distinguished memorial lecture series was inaugurated ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • Reinventing the Sacred

    A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

    by Stuart A Kauffman ...
    Consider the woven integrated complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awe-inspiring to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell, or to consider that the living organism was created by the evolving biosphere? As the eminent complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman explains in this ambitious and groundbreaking new book, people who do not believe in God have ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • What is Life?

    How Chemistry Becomes Biology

    by Prof Addy Pross ...
    Series series Oxford Landmark Science
    Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrödinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists ever since. Living things are hugely complex and have unique properties, such as self-maintenance and apparently purposeful behaviour which we do not see in inert matter. So how does chemistry give rise to biology? What ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Four Laws That Drive the Universe

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Atkins ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas to the cooling of hot metal, and from the unfurling of a leaf to the course of life itself - everything is directed and constrained by four simple laws. They establish fundamental concepts such as temperature and heat, and reveal the arrow of time and even the nature of energy ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Search for the Meaning of Space, Time, and Matter

    Images of Many Travels

    by Kai Woehler ...
    The book gives a comprehensive introduction for interested general readers, into the development and structure of concepts, ideas and theory formation about the elementary building blocks of matter, the forces with which these particles interact and about the fundamental nature of space itself. Einsteins theory of the cosmos and the recent discovery of the presence of a dark energy which leads to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Physical Chemistry

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Atkins ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    With the development of a variety of exciting new areas of research involving computational chemistry, nano- and smart materials, and applications of the recently discovered graphene, there can be no doubt that physical chemistry is a vitally important field. It is also perceived as the most daunting branch of chemistry, being necessarily grounded in physics and mathematics and drawing as it does ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Quantum Mechanics 5: Engtanglement, EPR, Teleportation, & Advanced Topics

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    This book concludes our exploration of Quantum Mechanics in the Everyone’s Guide Series.Here, we discuss the outstanding mysteries of Quantum Mechanics and the meaning of Reality.Our topics include:EPR paradoxParallel Universes / Many WorldsBohm’s pilot wavesBell’s InequalityTests of Locality & RealismSpacetime Quantization & the Planck scaleRovelli’s Relational Quantum MechanicsWe also ... ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • Complexity and the Arrow of Time

    Edited by Charles H. Lineweaver, Paul C. W. Davies, Michael Ruse ...
    There is a widespread assumption that the universe in general, and life in particular, is 'getting more complex with time'. This book brings together a wide range of experts in science, philosophy and theology and unveils their joint effort in exploring this idea. They confront essential problems behind the theory of complexity and the role of life within it: what is complexity? When does it ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • One Hundred Years Of General Relativity: From Genesis And Empirical Foundations To Gravitational Waves, Cosmology And Quantum Gravity - Volume 2

    by Wei-tou Ni ...
    The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general relativity and its scientific influences. This unique title provides a broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, its historical development, its important theoretical consequences, gravitational wave detection and applications to ... Read more

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  • Humanity in a Creative Universe

    by Stuart A. Kauffman ...
    In the hard sciences, which can often feel out of grasp for many lay readers, there are "great thinkers" who go far beyond the equations, formulas, and research. Minds such as Stephen Hawking philosophize about the functions and nature of the universe, the implications of our existence, and other impossibly fascinating, yet difficult questions. Stuart A. Kauffman is one of those great thinkers. He ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Five Biggest Ideas in Science

    by Charles M. Wynn, Arthur W. Wiggins ...
    In a thought-provoking and entertaining exploration of The Five Biggest Ideas in Science, authors Charles Wynn and Arthur Wiggins provide a panoramic view of the questions scientists seek to answer about the natural world:* Do basic building blocks of matter exist, and if so, what do they look like?* BIG IDEA #1: Physics' Model of the Atom* What relationships, if any, exist among different kinds ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Order Out of Chaos

    Man's New Dialogue with Nature

    by Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers ...
    Series series Radical Thinkers
    A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesisOrder Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD