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  • The Physicist’s Way

    A Philosophical Guide to the Practice of Physics

    by P. James E. Peebles ...
    A Nobel Prize–winning physicist illuminates how physicists think about and do physicsWhat principles guide physicists’ ways of thinking and the practice and culture of the discipline? In The Physicist’s Way, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist P.J.E. Peebles argues that definite assumptions underpin the working physicist’s approach, the elements of which are learned organically by incoming ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • The Whole Truth

    A Cosmologist’s Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality

    by P. James E. Peebles ...
    From the Nobel Prize–winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that kept changing, from a mechanical model of the ether to electric and magnetic fields, and from homogeneous matter to electrons and atoms. Today, concepts like dark matter and dark energy ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Is Weight Loss Surgery Right for You?

    by Robin F. Apple, James Lock, Rebecka Peebles ...
    Series series Treatments That Work
    Obesity has quickly become an American epidemic. If you are suffering from significant overweight and the problems that go along with it, you may be contemplating weight loss surgery. The decision to pursue weight loss surgery should not be taken lightly. There are many factors to consider. This book contains all the need-to-know information about weight loss surgery and how to decide whether or ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Is Weight Loss Surgery Right for You?

    by Robin F. Apple, James Lock, Rebecka Peebles ...
    Series series Treatments That Work
    Obesity has quickly become an American epidemic. If you are suffering from significant overweight and the problems that go along with it, you may be contemplating weight loss surgery. The decision to pursue weight loss surgery should not be taken lightly. There are many factors to consider. This book contains all the need-to-know information about weight loss surgery and how to decide whether or ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom

    by Vincas P. Steponaitis, Lauren M. Michals, Paul D. Welch, Margaret J. Schoeninger, Mary Lucas Powell, C. Margaret Scarry, Mark R. Schurr, Christopher S. Peebles ...
    Brings together nine Moundville specialists who trace the site’s evolution and eventual declineBuilt on a flat terrace overlooking the Black Warrior River in Alabama, the Moundville ceremonial center was at its height a densely occupied town of approximately 1,000 residents, with at least 29 earthen mounds surrounding a central plaza. Today Moundville is not only one of the largest and best ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Preparing for Weight Loss Surgery

    by Robin F. Apple, James Lock, Rebecka Peebles ...
    Series series Treatments That Work
    Obesity has quickly become an American epidemic. People suffering from significant overweight often have to contend with a lifetime of significant comorbidities, social stigma, and lower quality of life. Recently, more and more people are undergoing weight loss surgery as a way to resolve these issues. If you are working with pre- or post-operative bariatric surgery patients, your goal is to teach ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Preparing for Weight Loss Surgery

    by Robin F. Apple, James Lock, Rebecka Peebles ...
    Series series Treatments That Work
    Weight loss surgery is becoming more and more popular as a long-term solution for people to regain control of their bodies and their health. Once you make the decision to undergo surgery, it is up to you to ensure the best possible outcome. This will entail radical changes in both your lifestyle and eating habits. To reap the maximum benefits of your weight loss surgery, you must learn new methods ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Three Roads To Quantum Gravity

    by Lee Smolin ...
    "It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject." -- Scientific AmericanIn Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final "theory of everything." He explains in simple terms what scientists are talking about when they say the world is made from exotic entities such as loops, strings, and black holes and tells the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Void

    The Strange Physics of Nothing

    by James Owen Weatherall ...
    Series series Foundational Questions in Science
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Physics of Wall Street " deftly explains all you wanted to know about nothingness—a.k.a. the quantum vacuum" (Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens ).James Owen Weatherall's bestselling book, The Physics of Wall Street, was named one of Physics Today's five most intriguing books of 2013. In this work, he takes on... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

    by Roger Penrose ...
    Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • Quantum Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Polkinghorne ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain unsettled 75 years after the initial discoveries. The main text makes no use of equations, but ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Dreams of a Final Theory

    The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature

    by Steven Weinberg ...
    The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and bestselling author of The First Three Minutes describes the grand quest for a unifying theory of nature--one that can explain forces as different as the cohesion inside the atom and the gravitational tug between the sun and Earth. Wirting with dazzling elegance and clarity, he retraces the steps that have led modern scientists from relativity and quantum ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD