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Product Description: George Gamow's first Tompkins book, Mr Tompkins in Wonderland, created a 'toy universe' where, as his son comments in the preface to this 2010 reprint, 'the maximum speed of light is assumed to be 10 miles per hour, while all the laws of general relativity still hold'...read more

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9781107402072 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 9, 2011), cover price $26.99 | About this edition: George Gamow's first Tompkins book, Mr Tompkins in Wonderland, created a 'toy universe' where, as his son comments in the preface to this 2010 reprint, 'the maximum speed of light is assumed to be 10 miles per hour, while all the laws of general relativity still hold'.

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Product Description: First published in 1945, in the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic Energy in Cosmic and Human Life offers a unique account of the problem of atomic energy and the underlying principles of radioactive decay...read more

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9781107402089 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 9, 2011), cover price $23.99 | About this edition: First published in 1945, in the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic Energy in Cosmic and Human Life offers a unique account of the problem of atomic energy and the underlying principles of radioactive decay.

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By Michael Edwards (illustrator), George Gamow, Francisco Rebolledo (trans), Russell Stannard (contributor) and Juan Jose Utrilla (trans)

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9786071601100 | 2 edition (Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, November 24, 2009), cover price $16.95

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9781607961482 | Bnpublishing.Com, June 30, 2009, cover price $7.99
9780486425634 | Dover Pubns, January 23, 2003, cover price $8.95

Ameno breviario dedicado a develar en un tono incluso humorístico y de cuento los principios operativos de la física moderna. Los ensayos aquí expuestos ponen al alcance del lector los fenómenos de la fisión y la fusión atómicas, el comportamiento de las partículas elementales de la materia y las leyes que rigen el funcionamiento del cosmos.

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9789681614799 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 1992, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Ameno breviario dedicado a develar en un tono incluso humorístico y de cuento los principios operativos de la física moderna.

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9789681639402 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2005, cover price $10.95

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Product Description: How did our sun come into being? What keeps it hot and luminous, and what will be its ultimate fate? This fascinating and informative book offers answers to some of nature's most exciting and difficult questions. George Gamow, renowned physicist and author of the best-seller One Two Three ...read more

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9780486442310 | Dover Pubns, June 28, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: How did our sun come into being?

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Product Description: "Fascinating. . . . Distinctly readable and highly informative." — San Francisco Chronicle.Since time immemorial, people have attempted to explain the origin of the world, from the creation myths of the ancients to the more sophisticated views that developed with the progress of observational astronomy...read more

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9780486438689 | Dover Pubns, September 10, 2004, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: "Fascinating.

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Product Description: Rare book: Price in USD

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9788420637686, titled "Biografia De La Fisica / Biography of Physics" | Poc tra edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2003), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD

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The layman is introduced to modern physics when a personable bank clerk, interested in scientific matters, has fantastic adventures. (view table of contents)

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9780521639927 | Rev upd edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 6, 2001), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: The layman is introduced to modern physics when a personable bank clerk, interested in scientific matters, has fantastic adventures.

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Product Description: Se ofrece aquí un mágico recorrido por los temas fundamentales de la física a través de las peripecias del simpático aventurero señor Tompkins, inventado por George Gamow (1904-1968), uno de los científicos más eminentes y populares del siglo XX.

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9789681653187 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 1998, cover price $2.99 | About this edition: Se ofrece aquí un mágico recorrido por los temas fundamentales de la física a través de las peripecias del simpático aventurero señor Tompkins, inventado por George Gamow (1904-1968), uno de los científicos más eminentes y populares del siglo XX.

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The layman is introduced to modern physics when a personable bank clerk, interested in scientific matters, has fantastic adventures (view table of contents)

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9780521447713 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 26, 1993), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The layman is introduced to modern physics when a personable bank clerk, interested in scientific matters, has fantastic adventures

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Product Description: Book by Gamow, George

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9780553132786 | Bantam Books, June 1, 1971, cover price $2.25 | also contains Psychotherapie Der Adipositas: Interdisziplinare Diagnostik Und Differenzielle Therapie | About this edition: Book by Gamow, George

Recent explorations of the lunar surface are related in a history of man's knowledge about the moon

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9780354256490 | Revised edition (Harpercollins, June 1, 1971), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Recent explorations of the lunar surface are related in a history of man's knowledge about the moon
9780200717618, titled "Moon" | Revised edition (Abelard-Schuman Ltd, June 1, 1971), cover price $9.82 | About this edition: Recent explorations of the lunar surface are related in a history of man's knowledge about the moon

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Product Description: Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many thousands of readers (since his first appearance over fifty years ago) as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams and adventures lead him into a world inside the atom. George Gamow's classic provides a delightful explanation of the central concepts in modern physics, from atomic structure to relativity, and quantum theory to fusion and fission...read more

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9780521069052 | 1st edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1967), cover price $34.50 | About this edition: Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many thousands of readers (since his first appearance over fifty years ago) as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams and adventures lead him into a world inside the atom.

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Product Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition.

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9780670558124 | Viking Pr, May 1, 1963, cover price $5.75 | About this edition: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition.

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