- 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
- 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
- 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
- Rabi, Scientist and Citizen
- John S. Rigden
- This is a welcome reissue with a new Preface of Rigden's stellar biography of I. I. Rabi, one the most influential physicists of the twentieth century. Rabi's discovery of the magnetic resonance method won him the Nobel Prize in 1944 and stimulated research leading to, among other things, refinements in quantum electrodynamics, refined molecular beam methods, radio astronomy with the hydrogen 21-cm line, atomic clocks, and solid state masers.
- Paperback 2000
- Time and Chance
- David Z Albert
- This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures--and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense--that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen backwards.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003