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  • Relativity for Everyone

    How Space-Time Bends

    by Kurt Fischer ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book, now in a revised and updated second edition, explains the theory of special and general relativity in detail without approaching Einstein's life or the historical background. The text is formulated in such a way that the reader will be able to understand the essence intuitively, and new sections have been added on time machines, the twin paradoxes, and tensors. The first part of the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Relativity for Everyone

    How Space-Time Bends

    by Kurt Fischer ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book explains the theory of special and general relativity in detail, without digressions such as information on Einstein's life or the historical background. However, complicated calculations are replaced with figures and thought experiments, the text being formulated in such a way that the reader will be able to understand the gist intuitively. The first part of the book focuses on the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain

    Atypical Development

    Edited by Donna Coch, EdD, Geraldine Dawson, PhD, Kurt W. Fischer, PhD ...
    Thoroughly examining brain-behavior relationships in atypically developing children, this important volume integrates theories and data from multiple disciplines. Leading authorities present research on specific clinical problems, including autism, Williams syndrome, learning and language disabilities, ADHD, and issues facing infants of diabetic mothers. In addition, the effects of social stress ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Development in Context

    Acting and Thinking in Specific Environments

    Edited by Robert H. Wozniak, Kurt W. Fischer ...
    Series series Jean Piaget Symposia Series
    In this volume leading developmentalists address the question of how children's thinking develops in context by drawing on the theories of Vygotsky, Gibson, and Piaget.Analyses of the ecology and the dynamics of behavior have become popular, emphasizing the particulars of people acting in specific environments and the many complex factors of human body and mind that contribute to action and ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Development and Vulnerability in Close Relationships

    Edited by Gil G. Noam, Kurt W. Fischer ...
    Series series Jean Piaget Symposia Series
    How do people develop in their important relationships? How do two people come together to form a new, close relationship? How do relationships affect or determine who we are and who we become?These questions should be central to the study of mind and development, but most researchers neglect relationships and focus instead on analyses of individuals, as if people were basically alone, ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • The Eerie Silence

    Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence

    by Paul Davies ...
    "Refreshing . . . A penetrating analysis of the assumptions that underlie SETI and the entire enterprise of searching for life beyond Earth." —Chris McKay, NatureFifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history, the Search ... Read more

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  • Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

    by Janna Levin ...
    The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe.Black holes are dark. That is their essence. When black holes collide, they will ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Infinite Cosmos

    Questions from the frontiers of cosmology

    by Joseph Silk ...
    From time immemorial, poets and philosophers have looked in awe and wonder at the Universe. Such awe is shared by astrophysicists, too, as they seek to understand its nature, and whether it has any limits. In The Infinite Cosmos, Joseph Silk, Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University, cosmologist and well-known science writer, brings together the modern understanding of the Universe, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The History of the Universe

    by David H. Lyth ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book gives an accessible account of the history of the Universe; not only what happened, but why it happened. An author of textbooks on the early Universe and inflation, David Lyth now explains both cosmology and the underlying physics to the general reader. The book includes a detailed account of the almost imperceptible structure in the early Universe, and its probable origin as a quantum ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Gravity, Strings and Particles

    A Journey Into the Unknown

    by Maurizio Gasperini ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    New fundamental forces of Nature? New forms of "dark'' energy? Signals from epochs preceding the Big Bang? Is our space-time unique? Only a joint study of the three topics examined in this book – gravity, strings and particles – may provide answers to these questions. Such a study may also provide the key to solving one of the most fascinating mysteries of modern science, namely: Besides time and ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • The Little Book of Black Holes

    by Frans Pretorius, Steven S. Gubser ...
    Series series Science Essentials
    Dive into a mind-bending exploration of the physics of black holesBlack holes, predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that black holes were mathematical solutions to his equations, he never accepted their physical reality—a ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Learning to Learn More: Strategies to Quickly Overcome the Learning Curve

    by R S ...
    Simple and Useful Concepts for Overcoming the Learning CurveLearn How to Regain Control of Gaining New SkillsAre you struggling with learning difficulties, and don't even know it?Do you feel like your memory is slipping and you're not going anywhere in life?Do you just want to give up learning new things because the learning process is too hard?Are you frustrated by not being able to learn how to ... Read more

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