Physics

Death on the Edge

By Douglas Binstead

When the body of a young woman, wearing climbing shoes but no helmet, is found at the foot of a cliff in the Derbyshire gritstone edges, the emergency services are quick to treat her death as an accident, the result of a fall from a height onto a bed of...

Experiments and Observations on Electricity

By Benjamin Franklin

This 1769 work brings together published and unpublished letters both from and to Benjamin Franklin, which demonstrate the range of his interests. The letters show a lively transatlantic group of scientific friends and colleagues describing their experiments, interpreting each others' results, and theorizing on all aspects of the natural world.

Geological Interpretation of Well Logs

By M.H. Rider

Modern Thermodynamics for Chemists and Biochemists

By Dennis Sherwood

Thermodynamics is fundamental to university curricula in chemistry, physics, engineering and many life sciences. It is also notoriously difficult for students to understand, learn and apply. This book explains the fundamental concepts with great clarity, and shows how they can be applied to a variety of chemical and life science...

Thermoplasmonics

By Guillaume Baffou

The field of thermoplasmonics has developed rapidly in the last decade and is now an active area of research due to its countless applications in nanoscience and nanomedicine. This accessible overview of the topic provides a detailed discussion of the relevant underlying theory in nanophotonics and the latest, cutting-edge applications.

Origin of Mass

By John Iliopoulos

The Origin of Mass is a guided tour of cosmic evolution, from tiny fractions of a second after the Big Bang to the elementary particles that we study in our accelerators today. The guiding principle of this book is a concept of symmetry which, in a profound and fascinating way,...

Quantum Field Theory Approach to Condensed Matter Physics

By Eduardo C. Marino

A balanced combination of introductory and advanced topics provides a new and unique perspective on the quantum field theory approach to condensed matter physics. Presenting new insights on traditional topics, this text allows graduate students and researchers to master the theoretical tools in a variety of condensed matter physics systems.

Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory

By Leonard Susskind

The third volume in Leonard Susskind's one-of-a-kind physics series cracks open Einstein's special relativity and field theory In the first two books in his wildly popular The Theoretical Minimum series, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical and quantum mechanics, offering readers not an oversimplified introduction,...

Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation

By Alan P. Lightman

An essential resource for learning about general relativity and much more, from four leading experts Important and useful to every student of relativity, this book is a unique collection of some 475 problems--with solutions--in the fields of special and general relativity, gravitation, relativistic astrophysics, and cosmology. The problems are expressed...

Why the Universe Exists

By New Scientist

Why The Universe Exists takes you deep into the world of particle physics to explore how the universe functions at the smallest scales.