Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics
By: Martinus Veltman
4.14
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
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By: Lee Smolin
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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2. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
By: Simon Singh
4.21
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
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3. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
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4. The Old Man and the Sea
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.80
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
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5. The Time Machine
By: H.G. Wells , Greg Bear , Carlo Pagetti
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
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6. Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
By: Edward Frenkel
3.51
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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7. A Brief History of Time
By: Stephen Hawking , Phạm Văn Thiều , None
4.21
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
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8. The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
By: Sean Carroll
4.18
Format: None pages,
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9. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
By: Sean Carroll
4.07
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
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10. Contact
By: Carl Sagan
4.15
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
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11. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
By: Caroline Criado Pérez
4.35
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
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By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
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By: Sean Carroll
3.96
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15. Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible
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4.21
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16. Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics
By: Martinus Veltman
4.14
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
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