- Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume I, The Nature of Heat
- Count Rumford
- Edited by Sanborn C. Brown
- Hardcover 1968
- Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume II, Practical Applications of Heat
- Count Rumford
- Edited by Sanborn C. Brown
- Hardcover 1969
- Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume III, Devices and Techniques
- Count Rumford
- Edited by Sanborn C. Brown
- Hardcover 1969
- Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume IV, Light and Armament
- Count Rumford
- Edited by Sanborn C. Brown
- Hardcover 1970
- Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume V, Public Institutions
- Count Rumford
- Edited by Sanborn C. Brown
- In this fifth volume are Count Rumford's papers on public institutions: "Poor in Munich"; "Poor in All Countries"; "Feeding the Poor"; "Coffee"; "Public Institutions in Bavaria"; "Regulations for the Army of Bavaria"; "Public Institutions in Great Britain"; and "The Royal Institution." The Collected Works of Count Rumford is much more than a source book or a guide to methods of research in physics. It provides a unique portrait of the scientific, political, and social conditions of the turbulent early years of the Industrial Revolution.
- Hardcover 1970
- The Dilemmas of an Upright Man
- J. L. Heilbron
- In this moving and eloquent portrait, Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German science. With great understanding, he shows how Max Planck suffered morally and intellectually as his lifelong habit of service to his country and to physics was confronted by the realities of World War I and the brutalities of the Third Reich.
- Paperback 2000
- Driving Force
- James D. Livingston
- In a way that will delight and instruct even the nonmathematical among us, Livingston shows us how scientists today are creating magnets and superconductors that can levitate high-speed trains, produce images of our internal organs, steer high-energy particles in giant accelerators, and--last but not least--heat our morning coffee.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- Einstein 1905
- John S. Rigden
- For Einstein, 1905 was a remarkable year. It was also a miraculous year for the history and future of science. In six short months, he published five papers that would transform our understanding of nature. This unparalleled period is the subject of Rigden's book, which deftly explains what distinguishes 1905 from all other years in the annals of science, and elevates Einstein above all other scientists of the twentieth century.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
- Einstein and Oppenheimer
- Silvan S. Schweber
- Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary marked by the advent of quantum mechanics. By exploring how these men differed—in their worldview, in their work, and in their day—this book provides powerful insights into the lives of two critical figures and into the scientific culture of their times.
- Hardcover 2008 / Paperback 2009
- Einstein, History, and Other Passions
- Gerald Holton
- Through his rich exploration of Einstein's thought, Gerald Holton shows how the best science depends on great intuitive leaps of imagination, and how science is indeed the creative expression of the tradition of Western civilization.
- Paperback 2000
- Einstein’s Greatest Blunder?
- Donald Goldsmith
- This brief and witty book, by the award-winning science writer Donald Goldsmith, clearly lays out what we currently know about the universe as a whole. Richly illustrated with photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, Einstein's Greatest Blunder? puts the biggest subject of all--the story of the universe as scientists understand it--within the grasp of English-speaking earthlings.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997
- The Equations
- Sander Bais
- In this beautifully designed book, the equations that govern our world unfold in all their formal grace--and their deeper meaning as core symbols of our civilization. The renowned Dutch physicist Sander Bais has produced a book that delves into the details of seventeen equations that form the very basis of what we know of the universe today.
- Hardcover 2005
- Facing Up
- Steven Weinberg
- Each of these essays struggles in one way or another with the necessity of facing up to the discovery that the laws of nature are impersonal, with no hint of a special status for human beings. Defending the spirit of science against its cultural adversaries, these essays express a viewpoint that is reductionist, realist, and devoutly secular. Together, they afford the general reader the unique pleasure of experiencing the superb sense, understanding, and knowledge of one of the most interesting and forceful scientific minds of our era.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003
- From Clockwork to Crapshoot
- Roger G. Newton
- In From Clockwork to Crapshoot, Roger Newton, whose previous works have been widely praised for erudition and accessibility, presents a history of physics from the early beginning to our day--with the associated mathematics, astronomy, and chemistry. His work identifies what may well be the defining characteristic of physics in the twenty-first century.
- Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2009
- God's Universe
- Owen Gingerich
- Are the creative forces of our vast cosmos purposeful, and in fact divine? Professor Emeritus of Harvard's Department of Astronomy and the Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Owen Gingerich, argues that an individual can be both a creative scientist and a believer in divine design--that indeed the very motivation for scientific research can derive from a desire to trace God's handiwork. Gingerich carves out "a theistic space" from which it is possible to contemplate a universe where God plays an interactive role, unnoticed yet not excluded by science.
- Hardcover 2006
- Hydrogen
- John S. Rigden
- In this biography of hydrogen, John Rigden shows how this singular atom, the most abundant in the universe, has helped unify our understanding of the material world from the smallest scale, the elementary particles, to the largest, the universe itself. It is a tale of startling discoveries and dazzling practical benefits spanning more than one hundred years--from the first attempt to identify the basic building block of atoms in the mid-nineteenth century to the discovery of the Bose-Einstein condensate only a few years ago.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003
- Information
- Hans Christian von Baeyer
- Information is poised to replace matter as the primary stuff of the universe, von Baeyer suggests; it will provide a new basic framework for describing and predicting reality in the twenty-first century. Despite its revolutionary premise, the book is written lucidly and offers a superb introduction to classical and quantum information.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005
- Lake Views
- Steven Weinberg
- Just as Henry David Thoreau “traveled a great deal in Concord,” Nobel Prize–winning physicist Steven Weinberg sees much of the world from the window of his study overlooking Lake Austin. In Lake Views Weinberg, considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive today, continues the wide-ranging reflections that have also earned him a reputation as, in the words of New York Times reporter James Glanz, “a powerful writer of prose that can illuminate—and sting.”
- Hardcover 2010
- Objectivity, Invariance, and Convention
- Talal A. Debs
- Michael L. G. Redhead
- Offering a new appraisal of symmetry in modern physics, employing detailed case studies from relativity theory and quantum mechanics, Objectivity, Invariance, and Convention contends that the physical sciences, though dependent on convention, may produce objective representations of reality.
- Hardcover 2007
- On the Surface of Things
- Felice C. Frankel
- George M. Whitesides
- Using innovative photographic technology, Frankel finds startling abstract beauty on the surfaces of objects all around us. Chemist George Whitesides explains each photograph, describing why and how each of these phenomena occur.
- Paperback 2008
- Practical Matter
- Margaret C. Jacob
- Larry Stewart
- Jacob and Stewart examine the profound transformation that began in 1687. From the year when Newton published his Principia to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually became central to Western thought and economic development. The book aims at a general audience and examines how, despite powerful opposition on the Continent, a Newtonian understanding gained acceptance and practical application.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
- Quantum Mechanics and Experience
- David Z Albert
- This lively account of the foundations of quantum mechanics is at once elementary and deeply challenging. It is an introduction accessible to anyone with high school mathematics and, at the same time, a rigorous discussion of the most important recent advances in our understanding of quantum physics, a number of them made by the author himself.
- Hardcover 1993 / Paperback 1994
- The Quantum World
- Kenneth W. Ford
- Illustrated by Paul Hewitt
- The laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the twentieth century, Ford gives an appealing account of quantum physics that will help the serious reader make sense of a science that, for all its successes, remains mysterious.
- Hardcover 2004
- The Quantum World
- Kenneth W. Ford
- Technical Appendix by Diane Goldstein
- The laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the twentieth century, Ford gives an appealing account of quantum physics that will help the serious reader make sense of a science that, for all its successes, remains mysterious.
- Paperback 2005
- The Refrigerator and the Universe
- Martin Goldstein
- Inge F. Goldstein
- This book explains the laws of thermodynamics for science buffs and neophytes alike. The authors begin with a lively presentation of the historical development of thermodynamics and then show how the laws follow from the atomic theory of matter. The authors then give examples of the laws applicability to such diverse phenomena as the radiation of light from hot bodies, the formation of diamonds from graphite, how the blood carries oxygen, and the history of the earth.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Sir Humphry Davy's Published Works
- June Z. Fullmer
- Davy was a leading and controversial member of the international scientific community. His publications received all the publicity available to an early nineteenth-century scholar. For that reason the history of his publications is of interest not only for what it reveals of Davy but for what it tells about the fate of scientific news during this period. This annotated bibliography lists Davy's published writings that appeared during his lifetime and posthumously.
- Hardcover 1969
- A Source Book in Physics
- William Francis Magie
- Hardcover 1935
- The Truth of Science
- Roger G. Newton
- Bringing a reasonable voice to the culture wars that have sprung up around the notion of scientific truth, this book offers a clear and constructive response to those who contend, in parodies, polemics and op-ed pieces, that there really is no such thing as verifiable objective truth--and consequently no such thing as scientific authority.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000
- The Two-Dimensional Ising Model
- Barry McCoy
- Tai Tsun Wu
- Hardcover 1973
- Very Special Relativity
- Sander Bais
- Bais's previous book, The Equations, was widely read and roundly praised for its clear and commonsense explanation of the math in physics. Very Special Relativity brings the same accessible approach to Einstein's theory. Using a series of easy-to-follow diagrams and employing only elementary high school geometry, Bais conducts readers through the quirks and quandaries of such fundamental concepts as simultaneity, causality, and time dilation.
- Hardcover 2007
- Victory and Vexation in Science
- Gerald Holton
- This book shows why, at any given time--even in the mature phase of science--there exists no single "paradigm," but rather a spectrum of competing perspectives. Whether considering conflicts between Heisenberg and Einstein, Bohr and Einstein, or P. W. Bridgman and B. F. Skinner; tracing I. I. Rabi's shift of attention from superb science to education and scientific statesmanship--in each case, Holton demonstrates a masterly understanding of modern science and how it influences our world.
- Hardcover 2005
- What Makes Nature Tick?
- Roger G. Newton
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover