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God and the New Physics

Argues that the discoveries of twentieth-century physics--relativity and the quantum theory--demand a radical reformulation of the fundamentals of reality and a way of thinking, that is closer to mysticism than materialism (view table of contents)

By Paul Davies

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9780671528065 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1984), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Argues that the discoveries of twentieth-century physics--relativity and the quantum theory--demand a radical reformulation of the fundamentals of reality and a way of thinking, that is closer to mysticism than materialism

Labour Law: Text and Materials

By Paul Davies and Mark Freedland

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9780297780892 | 2 sub edition (Fred B Rothman & Co, December 1, 1984), cover price $45.00

Superforce

Explains how recent discoveries in physics and the new cosmology have transformed concepts of the physical world by linking space, time, matter, force, creation, order, and mind into the ultimate scientific theory

By Paul Davies

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9780671605735 | Touchstone Books, September 17, 1985, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Explains how recent discoveries in physics and the new cosmology have transformed concepts of the physical world by linking space, time, matter, force, creation, order, and mind into the ultimate scientific theory

The Ghost in the Atom: A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics

Product Description: Quantum physics is one of the most successful branches of science. Its conceptual foundations, however, are replete with-paradoxes, and the implications of the theory for the nature of reality are profound. Interest in this topic has been re-awakened by a key experiment performed in 1982 to test the foundations of the theory...read more

By J. R. Brown and Paul Davies

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9780521313162 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 29, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Quantum physics is one of the most successful branches of science.

Exploiting Ms-DOS on the Amstrad PC 1512 and Other IBM-PC Compatibles

By Paul Davies

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9781850580706 | Book Clearing House, November 1, 1987, cover price $25.90

A.J. Cook

Product Description: Cover worn, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

By Paul Davies

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9780719021602 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 1988, cover price $45.00

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9780719021619 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Cover worn, page edges tanned.

Wild Orchids of Britain and Europe

Product Description: This is an illustrated field-guide to the wild orchids of Britain and Europe which includes information on orchid biology.

By Jenne Davies, Paul Davies and Anthony Huxley

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9780701208202 | Hogarth Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This is an illustrated field-guide to the wild orchids of Britain and Europe which includes information on orchid biology.

The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in the Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe

Examines theories about the creation of the universe, argues that matter and energy have the ability to self-organize, and suggests that the universe is developing along a predestined plan

By Paul Davies

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9780671675615 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, February 1, 1989), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Examines theories about the creation of the universe, argues that matter and energy have the ability to self-organize, and suggests that the universe is developing along a predestined plan

The New Physics

Surveys the latest developments in the field of physics, in such areas as quantum theory, low-temperature physics, astrophysics, relativity, and quarks (view table of contents)

By Paul Davies (editor)

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9780521304207 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 28, 1989, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Surveys the latest developments in the field of physics, in such areas as quantum theory, low-temperature physics, astrophysics, relativity, and quarks

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9780521438315 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Surveys the latest developments in the field of physics, in such areas as quantum theory, low-temperature physics, astrophysics, relativity, and quarks

Learning to Write 3

By Paul Davies (illustrator) and Jane Salt

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9780140900774 | Workbook edition (New Amer Library, December 1, 1989), cover price $2.25 | also contains Reading Maimonides' Mishneh Torah

The Himalayas

By Paul Davies and Bob Gibbons

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9780713459432 | B T Batsford Ltd, May 1, 1991, cover price $39.95

The Pyrenees

Product Description: Covering the range of mountains which stretches over France, Spain, Andorra and the Basque and Catalan regions, the book has details on ecology, sports facilities, local culture, geology, local history, food and travel. Bob Gibbons has written "The Himalayas", which is in the same series...read more

By Paul Davies and Bob Gibbons

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9780713459425 | B T Batsford Ltd, August 1, 1991, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Covering the range of mountains which stretches over France, Spain, Andorra and the Basque and Catalan regions, the book has details on ecology, sports facilities, local culture, geology, local history, food and travel.

Music in the Nachtwachen

Product Description: Bonaventura's Nachtwachen (1804/05) has puzzled and troubled critics through its scepticism, nihilism, and scathing irony. By focussing on these aspects, critics have tended to overlook the role of music as a positive value and counterbalance to Bonaventura's mad topsy-turvy world...read more

By Paul Davies

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9780820415598 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 1992, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Bonaventura's Nachtwachen (1804/05) has puzzled and troubled critics through its scepticism, nihilism, and scathing irony.

Colin Spencer's Cordon Vert: 52 Vegetarian Gourmet Dinner Party Menus

Product Description: This recipe book includes menus for dinner parties designed for every week of the year, using the best of seasonal ingredients. The recipes are designed to appeal to both dedicated and occasional vegetarians. There are examples of a range of international cuisines as well as exciting and original dishes devised especially for this book...read more

By Paul Davies (illustrator) and Colin Spencer

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9780722526217 | Reprint edition (Thorsons Pub, November 1, 1992), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: This recipe book includes menus for dinner parties designed for every week of the year, using the best of seasonal ingredients.

Oblique Litanies

Product Description: These conversational observations and reminiscences are a eulogy, diverse personal reflections written after the sudden death of a loved one. The tragedy itself is not discussed; the book strives to convey the range of feelings attending bereavement as a collateral text, as they are so often concealed or projected in life â the reassessment; the impulsive humor; how at the time all choices seem inopportune; how social and ethical questions reduce to minute details of one's life; and, especially, the difficulty of dealing directly with the loss...read more

By Paul Davies

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9781550221572 | E C W Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: These conversational observations and reminiscences are a eulogy, diverse personal reflections written after the sudden death of a loved one.

Wildlife Travelling Companion: France

Product Description: This is one of a series in which each book consists of an introduction to one country, its geography, wildlife and habitats; a site guide which forms the bulk of the book and directs the wildlife enthusiast to some of the country's best wildlife sites; and a field guide containing illustrations and text to help in identifying common species of wildlife in the region...read more

By Paul Davies and Roy Gibbons

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9781852235796 | Crowood Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This is one of a series in which each book consists of an introduction to one country, its geography, wildlife and habitats; a site guide which forms the bulk of the book and directs the wildlife enthusiast to some of the country's best wildlife sites; and a field guide containing illustrations and text to help in identifying common species of wildlife in the region.

Colin Spencer's Summer Cooking

Offers vegetarian recipes for soups, sandwiches, stuffed breads, pizza, pies, savory pastries, salads, and desserts

By Paul Davies (illustrator) and Lee Faber (editor)

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9780722526538 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1993, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Offers vegetarian recipes for soups, sandwiches, stuffed breads, pizza, pies, savory pastries, salads, and desserts

Field Guide to Wild Flowers of Southern Europe

Product Description: This identification guide describes many of the plants of Spain, Portugal, southern France, Italy, and Malta. Superb color photographs, line-drawings, and a clear concise text describe 1,200 species that can be found in the region...read more

By Paul Davies and Bob Gibbons

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9781852236595 | Crowood Pr, August 1, 1993, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: This identification guide describes many of the plants of Spain, Portugal, southern France, Italy, and Malta.

The Ideal Real: Beckett's Fiction and Imagination

Product Description: This is a comprehensive study of all of Beckett's prose works from 1930 to 1990 that offers an up-to-date critical account of how Becker has approached the subject of the imagination.

By Paul Davies

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9780838635179 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: This is a comprehensive study of all of Beckett's prose works from 1930 to 1990 that offers an up-to-date critical account of how Becker has approached the subject of the imagination.

The Indispensable Guide to C

Product Description: This book provides a detailed and thorough presentation of the principles and applications of C programming. This book contains a wide range of engineering and computing examples highlighting all the features that C provides which other languages do not possess. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Paul Davies

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9780201624380 | Addison-Wesley, January 1, 1994, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: This book provides a detailed and thorough presentation of the principles and applications of C programming.

Field Guide to Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe

Product Description: This book describes most of the flowers and trees found from Southern Scandinavia down to the Loire Valley in France, and from the Atlantic eastwards to include all of Germany, totalling 1400 species found in the region. Included are over 720 colour photographs supplemented by 200 line-drawings, concise descriptions enabling easy identification, and details of preferred habitat, distribution and flowering time...read more

By Paul Davies and Bob Gibbons

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9781852237844 | Crowood Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: This book describes most of the flowers and trees found from Southern Scandinavia down to the Loire Valley in France, and from the Atlantic eastwards to include all of Germany, totalling 1400 species found in the region.

War of the Mines: Cambodia, Landmines and the Impoverishment of a Nation

Product Description: A book which documents, in words and pictures, the multifaceted and long-term impact of indiscriminate landmine warfare on civilian communities. The focus of the study is Cambodia and within it one particular district, Rattanak Mondul, in Battambang province...read more

By Paul Davies and Nic Dunlop (photographer)

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9780745308593 | Pluto Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $114.50 | About this edition: A book which documents, in words and pictures, the multifaceted and long-term impact of indiscriminate landmine warfare on civilian communities.

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9780745308609 | Pluto Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $40.00

The Wreck of the Apollo

Product Description: A short fiction concerned with personal redemption, written in 18th-century English as the journal of a shipwrecked East India Company officer.

By Paul Davies

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9781550222289 | E C W Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: A short fiction concerned with personal redemption, written in 18th-century English as the journal of a shipwrecked East India Company officer.

Exactly 12Â and Other Convictions: Four Imaginary Letters from Paul Davies

Product Description: This is a book of observation and comment about comic books, in particular the Marvel hero comics of the early 1960s and the influence those stories and drawings had on the lives of the young people that grew up with them. The topic is not brought under hard analysis: the comics were originally written for entertainment, and the author's views on them in turn are offered through conversational letters, addressed to two of the founders of the art-form at Marvel...read more

By Paul Davies

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9781550222302, titled "Exactly 12> and Other Convictions: Four Imaginary Letters from Paul Davies" | E C W Pr, February 1, 1995, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This is a book of observation and comment about comic books, in particular the Marvel hero comics of the early 1960s and the influence those stories and drawings had on the lives of the young people that grew up with them.

The Edge of Infinity: Beyond the Black Hole

Product Description: Originally published in 1981, this book provides readers with an introduction to the physics of the black hole, the focus of Stephen Hawkin's research and one of the most interesting and challenging areas of modern cosmology.

By Paul Davies

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9780140231946 | Penguin USA, February 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Originally published in 1981, this book provides readers with an introduction to the physics of the black hole, the focus of Stephen Hawkin's research and one of the most interesting and challenging areas of modern cosmology.

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