Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“ruling meng”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ruling meng”
Skip side bar filters
  • High Temperature Superconductor and Me

    A Scientist's Journey Across Oceans

    by Ruling Meng ...
    Translated by William Nisbett, Wei Li ...
    Ruling Meng, the author, is an exceptional scientist from Texas Center for Superconductivity at University of Houston. This autobiography describes her colorful life in detail, with high-temperature superconductivity research as the through line from beginning to end. The book is divided in two parts. The first illustrates the fierce competition in high-temperature superconducting material ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Shape of a Life

    One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry

    A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong effort to uncover the geometric shape—the Calabi-Yau manifold—that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe.Harvard geometer Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this autobiography, Yau reflects on his improbable ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collider

    The Search for the World's Smallest Particles

    by Paul Halpern ...
    An accessible look at the hottest topic in physics and the experiments that will transform our understanding of the universeThe biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle-smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the Higgs boson particle. But what is the Higgs boson and why is it often referred to as the God Particle? Why ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elemental

    How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything

    by Tim James ...
    SELECTED AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE DAILY MAIL'A hugely entertaining tour of the periodic table and the 118 elements that are the basic building blocks of everything' Daily MailIn 2016, with the addition of four final elements - nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson - to make a total of 118 elements, the periodic table was finally complete, rendering any pre-existing books on ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Higgs:The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle'

    The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle'

    by Jim Baggott ...
    The hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. So exactly what is this particle? Why does it matter so much? What does it tell us about the Universe? Has the discovery announced on 4 July 2012 finished the search? And was finding it really worth all the effort?The short answer is yes. The Higgs field is proposed as the way in which particles gain mass - a ... Read more

    $11.89 CAD

  • The Matter of Everything

    How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World

    by Suzie Sheehy ...
    **A surprising, fascinating journey through the experiments that not only unlocked the nature of matter and shaped our understanding of the cosmos but also forever changed the way we live within it"A book about the fundamental problems of physics written from a viewpoint I hadn’t come across before: that of the experimenter. A splendid idea, vividly carried out.” –Philip Pullman, best-selling ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Before the Big Bang

    The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond

    "A riveting tour of the cosmos from one of the brightest minds in astrophysics." —The Washington PostA revolutionary new account of our universe’s creation—and a breathtaking exploration of the landscape from which we sprang—from one of the world’s most celebrated cosmologistsWhat came before the Big Bang, and what exists outside of the universe it created? Until recently, scientists could only ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Gravitational Waves

    How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe

    by Brian Clegg ...
    Series series Hot Science
    On 14 September 2015, after 50 years of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the first time and astronomy changed for ever.Until then, investigation of the universe had depended on electromagnetic radiation: visible light, radio, X-rays and the rest. But gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of space and time – are unrelenting, passing through barriers that stop light dead.At the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply. However, the term 'nuclear power' causes anxiety in many people and there is confusion concerning the nature and extent of the associated risks. Here, Maxwell Irvine ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • A Grand and Bold Thing

    An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering

    LATE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, what had been a fevered pace of discovery in astronomy for many years had slowed. The Hubble Space Telescope continued to produce an astonishing array of images, but the study of the universe was still fractured into domains: measuring the universe’s expansion rate, the evolution of galaxies in the early universe, the life and death of stars, the search for ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Graphene Revolution

    The weird science of the ultra-thin

    by Brian Clegg ...
    Series series Hot Science
    In 2003, Russian physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov found a way to produce graphene – the thinnest substance in the world – by using sticky tape to separate an atom-thick layer from a block of graphite.Their efforts would win the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics, and now the applications of graphene and other 'two-dimensional' substances form a worldwide industry.Graphene is far stronger ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Superconductivity

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Superconductivity is one of the most exciting areas of research in physics today. Outlining the history of its discovery, and the race to understand its many mysterious and counter-intuitive phenomena, this Very Short Introduction explains in accessible terms the theories that have been developed, and how they have influenced other areas of science, including the Higgs boson of particle physics ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD