Physics

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* America's favorite astrophysicist has written the most entertaining and universally appealing book of his stellar career: a practical guide for dealing with Alien visitors, an exploration of how it might happen, and a cultural history of our fascination with...

Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....

How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these questions than astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson....

Apollo is the behind-the-scenes story of an epic achievement. Based on exhaustive research that included many exclusive interviews, Apollo tells how America went from a standing start to a landing on the moon at a speed that now seems impossible. It describes the unprecedented engineering...

Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....

A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning...

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that...

Nearly everyone is familiar with holograms - three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Two of the world's most eminent thinkers believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the...

One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant...

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as...

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the...

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb. Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they...

Chemistry and Our Universe: How It All Works is your in-depth introduction to this vital field, taught through 60 engaging half-hour lectures that are suitable for any background or none at all....

The story of the science of plasma and its revolutionary implications for the way we understand the universe and our place in it. Histories of science in the 20th century have focused on relativity and quantum mechanics. But, quietly in the background, there has been a third area of exploration...

"This engaging, conversational book begs to be read aloud, and who better than its author?... Tyson’s warmth and erudition make him a superb narrator of this excellent, thought-provoking book."- Library Journal "Like a spaceship traveling the stars, Tyson's voice flows smoothly as he delivers...

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd comes this hilarious and informative book of answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science...

The definitive exploration of one of the most daring and consequential theories of our time, completely revised and updated to reflect the rapid advances in artificial intelligence and virtual reality Are we living in a simulation? MIT computer scientist Rizwan Virk draws from research and...

In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible - and fascinating - to everyone....

“The Disappearing Spoon is my favorite kind of science journalism: it reveals a hidden universe in the form of a thrilling tale.” (BoingBoing) “Arthur C. Clarke once noted that truly advanced science cannot be distinguished from magic. Kean succeeds in giving us the cold hard facts, both...

My Big TOE, written by a nuclear physicist in the language of contemporary culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal....

Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before....

"[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, The New York Times Book Review In a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of...

*An instant New York Times Bestseller* *Publishers Weekly #1 Most Anticipated Science Book of Spring 2016* "You will be enthralled." — Wall Street Journal "A tour de force." — Salon.com Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern...

"A porthole into another world." —Scientific American The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions...

By most popular accounts, the universe started with a bang some 13.8 billion years ago. But what happened before the Big Bang? And how do we know it happened at all? Here prominent cosmologist Niayesh Afshordi and science communicator Phil Halper offer a tour of the peculiar possibilities...

FOR NON-EXPERTS: Get an accessible introduction to quantum computing as a mathematician explains quantum algorithms, quantum entanglement, and more. Quantum computing is a beautiful fusion of quantum physics and computer science!

Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. “Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than...

What astronauts' extraordinary experiences of awe and humility teach us about humanity. What is it like to stand in the shadow of Earth and the Moon and look out at the vastness of the Milky Way? To confront a view so grand it cannot be reproduced in a photo? These are the questions space...

As a fundamental particle, the electron is central to an understanding of the nature of matter. All of chemistry is dependent on the interaction of electrons on the outside of atoms. But the electron has also become increasingly central to our lives, first through the deployment of electricity...

The Physics of Cooking: Heat, Chemistry, and the Science of Flavor, Texture, Baking, and Grilling explains what is happening in the pan, oven, pot, and grill when food changes texture, color, aroma, and taste. It shows how heat moves by conduction, convection, and radiation, and why that matters when you sear a steak, roast a chicken, boil pasta, fry potatoes, or cook over open flame. It also makes sense of moisture loss, pressure, evaporation, and carryover cooking, so common advice such as pat food dry, preheat properly, rest meat, or use steam has a clear practical purpose. The book also...

Physics/Universe Without the Math makes quantum mechanics simple, engaging, and instantly useful. This compact, beginner-friendly guide explains core quantum concepts — wave-particle duality, superposition, entanglement, uncertainty principle, quantum tunneling, and quantum states — using everyday metaphors and clear analogies. Perfect for students, curious adults, self-learners, and busy professionals, this one-hour primer removes intimidating equations and focuses on intuition, real-world applications, and the big ideas that shape modern physics. Read it in a single sitting and gain ...

Werner Heisenberg entered the atom and found Plato waiting inside. At the foundations of quantum physics lies a strange revelation: matter is not what it seems. The deeper science looks into the physical world, the less reality resembles tiny solid objects moving through empty space. Instead, it reveals uncertainty, probability, measurement, mathematical structures, and invisible forms beneath appearance. In Heisenberg and the Platonic Foundations of Quantum Physics, Clayton Louis Turnage explores the philosophical imagination behind one of the founders of quantum mechanics. From matrix ...

A 1-HOUR PHYSICS GUIDE: Quantum Physics for Absolute Beginners — The Universe Without the Math makes quantum mechanics simple, engaging, and instantly useful. This compact, beginner-friendly guide explains core quantum concepts — wave-particle duality, superposition, entanglement, uncertainty principle, quantum tunneling, and quantum states — using everyday metaphors and clear analogies. Perfect for students, curious adults, self-learners, and busy professionals, this one-hour primer removes intimidating equations and focuses on intuition, real-world applications, and the big ideas ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Albert Einstein A Gateway to His Life, Discoveries, and Legacy Albert Einstein changed the way humanity understands reality. His work reshaped space, time, light, matter, energy, and gravity — yet his life was never only a story of equations. He was a curious child with a compass, a restless outsider in the classroom, a patent-office thinker who overturned physics, a refugee from fascism, a public conscience in the atomic age, and a deeply human figure whose private life was far more complicated than the icon suggests. This concise yet powerful volume distils ...

Eight issues of rigorous evidence. Now: what does it all mean? Issues 1 through 8 of the UFO Encounters series built the evidentiary case — primary documents, military testimony, government files, PURSUE declassifications. The evidence is now clear: something real is here. Something with performance characteristics that defy known physics. Something that monitors our nuclear weapons, tracks our submarines, and has been documented by governments on every continent for eight decades. But the evidence cannot tell us what it is. That question lives somewhere beyond the documents. UFO ...

What happens when we die? For thousands of years, philosophers, scientists, mystics, and theologians have struggled to answer humanity's oldest and most important question. In Death: Definitely Not the End, HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor offers a groundbreaking investigation into consciousness, identity, survival, and the possibility that death is not the end of existence. Combining cutting-edge research on near-death experiences (NDEs), terminal lucidity, reincarnation cases, consciousness studies, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and comparative religion, this book develops an original ...

The Physics of Sports: How Momentum, Aerodynamics, Reaction Time, Balance, and Energy Transfer Shape Athletic Performance explains the mechanics behind sprinting, jumping, throwing, hitting, tackling, cutting, and ball flight in clear, practical language. It shows how force, motion, momentum, and energy transfer shape ordinary game situations, from a hard check in hockey to the lift on a long golf shot or the timing of a goalkeeper’s save. Rather than treating physics as abstract theory, the book connects core ideas to the actions athletes, coaches, and fans actually care about: ...

We have mapped the surface of Mars with greater precision than the floor of our own oceans. We predict the weather on Jupiter but cannot say when the next earthquake will strike. We speak of the planet’s future with the confidence of prophets—yet we do not know where the water came from, why heavy elements sit in the crust instead of sinking to the core, or how the first living cell assembled itself from dust. Dust and Time is a sweeping, unflinching exploration of the vast territories of geological ignorance that modern science has papered over with confident models and apocalyptic headlines.

Computational chemistry has quietly become the engine behind modern chemical discovery, materials design, and molecular understanding. Yet for many chemists, the world of quantum calculations, molecular simulations, and high‑performance computing still feels opaque, fragmented, or locked behind specialist jargon and software manuals. This book offers a clear, structured path into computational chemistry, turning complex theory and algorithms into a practical toolkit that working chemists, graduate students, and researchers can actually use. Inside this book, readers will learn how to: ...

The files are open. Here's what they actually show. On May 8, 2026, the United States government launched PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — and posted the first batch of declassified UFO files to a public portal at war.gov/UFO. Within twelve hours, 340 million people had tried to access it. Two weeks later, a second batch arrived: fifty more videos, NASA astronaut audio, and a 116-page document detailing two hundred and nine unexplained sightings at America's principal nuclear weapons facility. Days earlier, the NSA had separately released ...

Universe 25 meets quantum physics. In 1968, behavioral researcher John B. Calhoun built a perfect world for mice. Unlimited food, unlimited water, no predators, no disease. Paradise. The mice thrived at first. They bred, built social groups, and formed a functioning colony. Then everything fell apart. Males became violent without reason. Females abandoned their young. A group Calhoun called the beautiful ones withdrew completely, spending their days grooming themselves in isolation while their world crumbled around them. Reproduction stopped. Social bonds dissolved. Every single mouse died.

Every day, artificial intelligence makes headlines. But behind every AI system that recognizes your voice, powers a self-driving vehicle, or monitors your health, there is a piece of hardware making it happen. The next generation of that hardware is being built right now and it is designed to think the way your brain does. This is the book that explains how, in plain English, with no prior knowledge required. Neuromorphic computing is one of the most important technology stories of our era, and almost nobody outside a research lab can explain what it actually is. This book changes that. It ...

Orbital Intelligence: How the SpaceX and xAI Merger is Redefining AI and Space Infrastructure By Anthony Farrior When SpaceX filed its explosive $1.75 trillion IPO prospectus, it revealed a secret that shook both Wall Street and the tech world: the total absorption of Elon Musk’s xAI into a sprawling aerospace empire. But why merge rockets with artificial intelligence? In Orbital Intelligence, I.T. expert and PanfurWare LLC owner Anthony Farrior breaks down the technical and financial realities of Musk’s ultimate infrastructure play: moving the world’s data centers into space. As ...

Thermodynamics drives nearly every technology in modern engineering, yet most textbooks present it as a sequence of equations with little connection to real systems. This book takes a different approach. Each topic begins with physical intuition and a concrete engineering scenario, then builds toward rigorous mathematics, so readers develop the understanding needed to reason through new problems rather than match them to memorized procedures. Spanning 525 pages across 14 sequenced chapters, the coverage moves from foundational vocabulary through the full arc of thermodynamic theory and ...

Quantum computing is often portrayed as a distant scientific curiosity. In reality, it is rapidly becoming one of the most consequential technological revolutions of the twenty-first century. In The Quantum Future, Bernd Riemann provides a clear and authoritative examination of the technologies, institutions, and geopolitical forces that will define the next era of computation. Moving beyond popular headlines and industry hype, this book explains what quantum computing actually is, why it matters, and how its development could transform the foundations of modern civilization. From the ...

Quantum physics has a reputation for being impossible. Equations, paradoxes, and jargon that sounds like science fiction have locked the strange rules running the universe behind a wall of mathematics that scares off curious readers. This book breaks the wall down. Written in plain, conversational English with no equations required, it walks you through the ideas that quietly power your phone, your medical scans, your solar panels, and every atom in your body. Inside this book, readers will learn how to: Understand why classical physics broke and what blackbody radiation and the ultraviolet...

Time Perception and Temporal Experience: The Psychology, Biology, and Culture of How Humans Experience Time explores a basic fact of everyday life: clock time is regular, but experienced time is not. A traffic light can feel longer when you are late. A holiday week can pass quickly while leaving a dense memory behind. Childhood summers often seem spacious, while adult years can blur together. This book explains how that happens by connecting the psychology of attention and memory with the biology of sleep, arousal, and internal timing, and with the social rules that shape how people ...

Please Note: "Zero Math, Zero Physics, Zero Prior Crypto Experience Required" A new kind of computer is coming—one that can tear through the math protecting today’s encrypted data. If your organization depends on long‑lived secrets, from financial records to government archives, you cannot afford to wait until that happens to rethink how you keep information safe. This book is a clear, concept‑first guide to quantum key distribution (QKD), the physics‑based approach to secure key exchange that does not rely on “hard math” staying hard forever. Inside this book, readers will ...

You are holding a case file. The crime scene is the universe at its smallest scale, and the evidence refuses every classical explanation. Particles exist in many places at once. Measuring one object instantly shapes what someone finds in another, even a continent away. Particles pass through barriers they have no energy to cross. The act of looking changes what is being observed. These are not metaphors. They are the literal, laboratory-verified behavior of matter and light, confirmed on every continent for more than a century. What the evidence means still is in dispute, and that is the ...