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“sheilla jones”

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  • The Quantum Ten

    A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science

    by Sheilla Jones ...
    Theoretical physics is in trouble.At least that’s the impression you’d get from reading a spate of recent books on the continued failure to resolve the 80-year-old problem of unifying the classical and quantum worlds. The seeds of this problem were sewn eighty years ago when a dramatic revolution in physics reached a climax at the 1927 Solvay conference in Brussels.It’s the story of a rush to ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quantum Ten : A Story Of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition, And Science

    by Sheilla Jones ...
    Theoretical physics is in trouble. At least that's the impression you'd get from reading a spate of recent books on the continued failure to resolve the 80-year-old problem of unifying the classical and quantum worlds. The seeds of this problem were sewn eighty years ago when a dramatic revolution in physics reached a climax at the 1927 Solvay conference in Brussels. It's the story of a rush to ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition, and Science

    A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition, and Science

    by Sheilla Jones ...
    Theoretical physics is in trouble. At least that's the impression you'd get from reading a spate of recent books on the continued failure to resolve the 80-year-old problem of unifying the classical and quantum worlds. The seeds of this problem were sewn eighty years ago when a dramatic revolution in physics reached a climax at the 1927 Solvay conference in Brussels. It's the story of a rush to ... Read more

    $57.59 CAD

  • Let the People Speak

    Oppression in a Time of Reconciliation

    by Sheilla Jones ...
    Over the past fifty years, Canada’s Indigenous Affairs department (now two departments with more than 30 federal co-delivery partners) has mushroomed into a “super-province” delivering birth-to-death programs and services to First Nations, Inuit and Metis people. This vast entity has jurisdictional reach over 90% of Canada’s landscape, and an annual budget of some $20 billion. Yet Indigenous ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

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  • Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

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  • The History of Physics from 2000BCE to 1945

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  • Black Holes and Baby Universes

    And Other Essays

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Thirteen extraordinary essays shed new light on the mystery of the universe—and on one of the most brilliant thinkers of our time.“[Hawking] sprinkles his explanations with a wry sense of humor and a keen awareness that the sciences today delve not only into the far reaches of the cosmos, but into the inner philosophical world as well.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIn ... Read more

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  • Black Holes & Time Warps

    Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

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  • What Is Real?

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