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Faster : The Acceleration of Just About Everything
James Gleick
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9.8 |
Never in the history of the human race have so many had so much to do in so little time. That, anyway, is the impression most of us have of civilized life at the end of the millennium, and Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everythin
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The End of Certainty : Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature
Isabelle Stengers, Ilya Prigogine
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Current:
9.8 |
In this intellectually challenging book, Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine tackles some of the difficult questions that bedevil physicists trying to provide an explanation for the world we observe. How is it, for instance, that basic principles
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Calendar : Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year
David Ewing Duncan
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Current:
9.8 |
In his latest book, David Ewing Duncan traces the development of our modern-day calendar and describes how people's experiences are shaped by their conception of time. Duncan postulates that all this concern with time started when a Cro-Mag
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Calendar : Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year
David Ewing Duncan
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Current:
9.7 |
In his latest book, David Ewing Duncan traces the development of our modern-day calendar and describes how people's experiences are shaped by their conception of time. Duncan postulates that all this concern with time started when a Cro-Mag
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Time : A Traveler's Guide
Clifford A. Pickover
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Current:
9.7 |
The thought that humans might one day be able to harness time, traveling freely from one age to another, has been a fixture of science fiction for years. Science fact is beginning to catch up to the long-held dream: in this entertaining sur
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Calendrical Calculations
Nachum Dershowitz, Edward M. Reingold
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Current:
9.7 |
Many computer users are aware of the problems involved in calculations using calendar dates. In this book the authors present simple algorithms for calendrical calculations, carefully coupled with deep and insightful research results in the
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Times Pendulum : From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World (Harvest Book)
Jo Ellen Barnett
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Current:
9.6 |
Likely you've heard that the mechanical clock is one of humanity's most significant inventions, comparable to the printing press, or electricity, or the automobile. But first-time author Jo Ellen Barnett admits that most of us, if we're hon
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The Search For Superstrings, Symmetry, And The Theory Of Everything
John R. Gribbin
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Current:
9.6 |
In days of yore, educated men and women would avidly follow new developments in the world of science; these days it seems to be too much trouble--relativity was bad enough, but "N-dimensional space"? Fortunately for those of us who have tro
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The Hidden Domain : Home of the Quantum Wave Function, Nature's Creative Source
Norman Friedman
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Current:
9.5 |
explains that our familiar three-dimensional world is a reality arising from an invisible ocean of unmeasurable energy which surrounds and permeates us. This conception as remarkable as it seems arises in a natural way from the ma thematica
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About Time : Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
P. C. W. Davies
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Current:
9.5 |
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| 11
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Stephen Hawking's Universe : The Cosmos Explained
David Filkin, Stephen Hawking
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Current:
9.4 |
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| 12
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The End of Time : The Next Revolution in Physics
Julian B. Barbour
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Current:
9.4 |
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Questioning the Millennium : A Rationalists Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown
Stephen Jay Gould
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Current:
9.4 |
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| 14
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Time Machines : Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction
Paul J. Nahin
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Current:
9.3 |
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Time's Pendulum : The Quest to Capture Time--From Sundials to Atomic Clocks
Jo Ellen Barnett
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Current:
9.2 |
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Mapping Time : The Calendar
E. G. Richards
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Current:
9.2 |
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Sundials : Their Theory and Construction
Albert Edmund Waugh
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Current:
9.1 |
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| 18
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Story of Time
Kristen Lippincott
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Current:
9.1 |
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Time Series Analysis: Forecasting & Control
George E.P. Box
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Current:
9.0 |
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| 20
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The River of Time
Igor D. Novikov
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Current:
9.0 |
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Time's Arrow & Archimedes' Point : New Directions for the Physics of Time
Huw Price
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Current:
9.0 |
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The Missing Moment
Robert Pollack
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Current:
9.0 |
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Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
Michio Kaku, Robert O'Keefe (Illustrator)
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Current:
9.0 |
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| 24
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Wavelet Transforms : Introduction to Theory and Applications
Raghuveer M. Rao, Ajit S. Bopardikar
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Current:
8.9 |
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| 25
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Vibration Analysis for Electronic Equipment, 2nd Edition
Dave S. Steinberg
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Current:
8.8 |
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| 26
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Einstein's Dream : The Search for a Unified Theory of the Universe
Barry Parker
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Current:
8.7 |
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| 27
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Vibrations and Waves
Anthony P. French
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Current:
8.7 |
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| 28
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Statistical Modeling by Wavelets (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Applied Probability and Statistics)
Brani Vidakovic
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Current:
8.7 |
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| 29
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Linear and Nonlinear Waves (Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1237)
G. B. Whitham
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Current:
8.7 |
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| 30
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Relativistic Quantum Mechanics : Wave Equations
Walter Greiner
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Current:
8.7 |
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| 31
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Mechanical Vibrations/Book and Disk
Singiresu S. Rao
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Current:
8.7 |
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| 32
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Theory of Vibrations With Applications
William T. Thomson, Marie Dillon Dahleh
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Current:
8.5 |
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| 33
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Waves and Fields in Inhomogeneous Media
Weng Cho Chew
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Current:
8.4 |
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| 34
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Engineering Vibration
Daniel J. Inman
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Current:
8.4 |
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| 35
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Vortex Dynamics (Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics and Applied Mathematics)
P. G. Saffman
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Current:
8.4 |
The Fifth Edition of this classic work retains the most useful portions of Timoshenko's book on vibration theory and introduces powerful, modern computational techniques. The normal mode method is emphasized for linear multi-degree and infi
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Vibration Problems in Engineering
William Weaver
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Current:
8.4 |
The Fifth Edition of this classic work retains the most useful portions of Timoshenko's book on vibration theory and introduces powerful, modern computational techniques. The normal mode method is emphasized for linear multi-degree and infi
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Wild Animals I Have Known
Ernest Thompson Seton, David Arnason (Afterword)
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Current:
8.4 |
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| 38
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Empires of Time : Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures
Anthony F. Aveni
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Current:
8.4 |
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| 39
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Mechanical Vibrations
J.P. Den Hartog, Den J. Hartog
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Current:
8.3 |
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| 40
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Wave Motion in Elastic Solids
Karl F. Graff
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Current:
8.3 |
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| 41
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Physics of Waves
William C. Elmore, Mark A. Heald
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Current:
8.1 |
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| 42
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Physics for Scientists and Engineers : Chapters 1-21
Paul A. Tipler
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Current:
8.1 |
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Variational Methods for Eigenvalue Problems : An Introduction to the Methods of Rayleigh, Ritz, Weinstein, and Aronszajn
Sydney H. Gould
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8.0 |
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| 44
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Surface Acoustic Wave Devices for Mobile and Wireless Communications (Applications of Modern Acoustics)
Colin Campbell
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8.0 |
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| 45
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Classical Electromagnetic Field
Leonard Eyges
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Current:
8.0 |
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Analytical Methods in Vibrations
Leonard Meirovitch
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Current:
8.0 |
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Finite Element Analysis of Acoustic Scattering (Applied Mathematical Sciences (Springer-Verlag), Vol 132)
Frank Ihlenburg, Germanischer Lloyd
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8.0 |
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