The Elegant Universe makes some of the most sophisticated concepts ever contemplated accessible and thoroughly entertaining, bringing us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.

The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology.

'In this tightly focused, lucidly written and thoroughly researched book, Ferenc Morton Szasz, a professor of history at the University of New Mexico, describes the events, personalities and scientific processes that led to the detonation ...

Acclaim for the first edition: "...The book provides a superb background for scientists and those in technical fields.

This comprehensive text provides an introduction to basic nuclear physics, including nuclear decays and reactions and nuclear structure, while covering the essential areas of basic research and practical applications.

The well-received and proven pedagogical approach of the first edition has been retained. The book provides a comprehensive treatment of the physics of the stellar interior and the underlying fundamental processes and parameters.

This book, prepared by a gifted teacher of physics, explores the challenges that faced the members of the Manhattan project.

Thoroughly revised and updated introduction to past and present cosmological theory.

Serber has annotated the lectures he gave to those joining the scientific elite in the wilderness of Los Alamos, NM in 1943. This is LA-1, the Los Alamos primer, here published for the first time.

In "a chilling documentary history of America's above-ground nuclear tests conducted during the 1950s and early 1960s, Miller takes on the subject and universalizes it, at the same time giving it the flavor of a Dos Passos novel" ("Kirkus ...