Product Description: A memoir of one woman’s life viewed through the lens of her relationship with her spiritual teacher of over 20 years. Her candid, touching & humorous stories are told in a voice that is authentic, wry & irreverent, yet always colored with the note of longing for God that characterized her quest for something “real” from earliest childhood...read more

A team of physicists guides readers on an eye-opening journey into the structure of the natural world, probing the most important unanswered questions about matter and the nature of the nucleus.

Product Description: “Amazing… If you’ve been searching for a basic text on how the atom works, this is it.” —Booklist   “A masterpiece.”—Omni   The legendary Isaac Asimov starts what is perhaps the most fascinating of all his books with a simple query: how finely can a piece of matter be divided? But like many simple questions, this one leads us on a far-flung quest for a final answer, a search that becomes a series of beautifully structured building blocks of knowledge...read more

Looks at the history of atomic and subatomic research from the ancient Greeks to modern particle physics

Product Description: From the recent discovery of the "top quark" to the search for the Higgs particle, the frontiers of particle physics beckon the imagination. Exploring in detail the full history of particle physics, Yuval Ne'eman and Yoram Kirsh explain in an engaging, nonmathematical style the principles of modern theories such as quantum mechanics and Einstein's relativity, and they brilliantly succeed in conveying to the reader the excitement that accompanied the original discoveries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at the history of atomic and subatomic research from the ancient Greeks to modern particle physics

A Nobel-laureate physicist describes his development as a scientist, and comments on the political and competitive aspects of the scientific community

Product Description: In The Particle Hunters, the authors give a non-technical account of the fascinating story of the search for the fundamental building blocks of matter. Beginning with the experiments of Thompson and Rutherford at the turn of the century, the book chronicles how physicists revealed layer upon layer of structure within the atom, and concludes with an up-to-date description of recent discoveries, including the 'charmed', 'beauty' and 'truth' quarks, the psi and upsilon particles, the tau lepton and the W and Z intermediate vector bosons, the carriers of the weak force...read more

Product Description: In The Particle Hunters, the authors give a non-technical account of the fascinating story of the search for the fundamental building blocks of matter. Beginning with the experiments of Thompson and Rutherford at the turn of the century, the book chronicles how physicists revealed layer upon layer of structure within the atom, and concludes with an up-to-date description of recent discoveries, including the 'charmed', 'beauty' and 'truth' quarks, the psi and upsilon particles, the tau lepton and the W and Z intermediate vector bosons, the carriers of the weak force...read more

A survey of nuclear physics covers particles, forces, rotation, fields, waves, light, relativity, quantum mechanics, particle accelerators, quarks, field theories, gravity, and cosmology

Explains, in layman's terms, recent discoveries in physics, astronomy, and cosmology and the implications of these breathtaking advances in man's knowledge of the universe