Search results for “[subject: physics-general]”

• Author(s): Robert G. Sachs • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralThe notion that fundamental equations governing the motions of physical systems are invariant under t...

• Author(s): David Kaiser • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralWinner of the 2007 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. Feynman diagrams have revolutionize...

• Author(s): Daniel Garber • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralIn this first book-length treatment of Descartes' important and influential natural philosophy, Daniel ...

• Author(s): Iwan Rhys Morus • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralAs recently as two hundred years ago, physics as we know it today did not exist. Born in the early ni...

• Author(s): Robert P. Crease • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: HistoryBrookhaven National Laboratory was the first major national laboratory built for basic civilian research. From...

• Author(s): Karl J. Niklas | Hanns-Christof Spatz • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BotanyFrom Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea ...

• Author(s): Crosbie Smith • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: HistoryAlthough we take it for granted today, the concept of "energy" transformed nineteenth-century physics. In The Sci...

• Author(s): Paul Davies • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Physics - Quantum TheoryQuantum computers, quantum cryptography, and even quantum AI--a century after the discovery of an ...

• Author(s): Elizabeth D. Harvey | Timothy M. Harrison • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshA reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an orig...

• Author(s): Elizabeth D. Harvey • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshA reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of huma...

• Author(s): Simon Schaffer | Charlotte Bigg | John Tresch • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: HistoryCollects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of ...

• Author(s): Paul Sheldon Davies • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsBeing human while trying to scientifically study human nature confronts us with our...

• Author(s): Jessica Riskin • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: HistoryToday, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock fal...

• Author(s): Donald W. Fiske | Richard a. Shweder • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: MethodologyWhat is the nature of the social sciences? What kinds of knowledge can they--and shoul...

• Author(s): Carl Zimmer • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - VirologyIn 2020, an invisible germ--a virus--wholly upended our lives. We're most familiar with the viruse...

• Author(s): M. G. Harasewych | Fabio Moretzsohn • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Marine BiologyWho among us hasn't marveled at the diversity and beauty of shells? ...

• Author(s): Robert K. Merton • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: GeneralWith playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton's aphorism, "If I have see...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Bernstein • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralBrokered Subjects digs deep into the accepted narratives of sex trafficking to reveal the troub...

• Author(s): Deborah Rowan Wright • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - OceanographyA counterintuitive and compelling argument that existing laws already protect the en...

• Author(s): Edward Schatz • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialScholars of politics have sought in recent years to make the discipline more hospita...

• Author(s): Radhika Govindrajan • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWhat does -it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intima...

• Author(s): Mark Monmonier • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: CartographyAn instant classic when first published in 1991, How to Lie with Maps revealed how the choices mapmakers mak...

• Author(s): Angela Zito | Tani E. Barlow • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaFor the first time, this volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and met...

• Author(s): Simeon Koole • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - Victorian Era (1837-1901)An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain told...

• Author(s): Lauren Bialystok • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: HistoryA case for sex education that puts it in historical and philosophical context. In the United States, sex educ...

• Author(s): Dingxin Zhao | Matthew Turner | Haiying Weng • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernA sweeping work on China that interrogates how states gain,...

• Author(s): James L. Kastely • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: RhetoricA revolutionary approach to rhetoric that asks why audiences need persuading. What is persuasion? For some, ...

• Author(s): Carl Schmitt • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: PoliticalIn this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism...

• Author(s): Susan Schulten • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: CartographyThroughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban r...

• Author(s): Robert B. Pippin • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Movements - IdealismA provocative reassessment of Heidegger's critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition's...

• Author(s): W. Eugene Smith • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: PhotojournalismNew edition of poignant selected images from famed Life photographer W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh proje...

• Author(s): Philip Ball • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Physics - Quantum Theory"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." Since Niels Bohr said this m...

• Author(s): Nima Bassiri • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: HistoryUncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of...

• Author(s): Jaeyoon Park • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralAddiction is now seen as an ordinary feature of human nature, an idea that introduces new d...