An epic story of science and technology at the very limits of human understanding: the monumental race to build the first atomic weapons.
Rich in personality, action, confrontation, and deception, The First War of Physics is the first fully realized popular account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. The book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, coded soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the soviet archives.

The author is a physics professor at Howard University. He has taught the course "Physics for Architecture" for many years. He is a strong believer that introductory physics courses should be tailored to their audience, and should be based on clear presentation of principles, judicious selection of topics, and integration of theoretical concepts and practical applications.

In How Math Explains the World, mathematician Stein reveals how seemingly arcane mathematical investigations and discoveries have led to bigger, more world-shaking insights into the nature of our world. In the four main sections of the book, Stein tells the stories of the mathematical thinkers who discerned some of the most fundamental aspects of our universe. From their successes and failures, delusions, and even duels, the trajectories of their innovations-and their impact on society-are traced in this fascinating narrative. Quantum mechanics, space-time, chaos theory and the workings of complex systems, and the impossibility of a "perfect" democracy are all here. Stein's book is both mind-bending and practical, as he explains the best way for a salesman to plan a trip, examines why any thought you could have is imbedded in the number n , and-perhaps most importantly-answers one of the modern world's toughest questions: why the garage can never get your car repaired on time.

The author is a physics professor at Howard University. He has taught the course "Physics for Architecture" for many years. He is a strong believer that introductory physics courses should be tailored to their audience, and should be based on clear presentation of principles, judicious selection of topics, and integration of theoretical concepts and practical applications.

The author is a physics professor at Howard University. He has taught the course "Physics for Architecture" for many years. He is a strong believer that introductory physics courses should be tailored to their audience, and should be based on clear presentation of principles, judicious selection of topics, and integration of theoretical concepts and practical applications.

The purpose of the book is to give a survey of the physics that is relevant for biological applications, and also to discuss what kind of biology needs physics. The book gives a broad account of basic physics, relevant for the applications and various applications from properties of proteins to processes in the cell to wider themes such as the brain, the origin of life and evolution. It also considers general questions of common interest such as reductionism, determinism and randomness, where the physics view often is misunderstood.