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Published by Ballantine Books, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0345367138ISBN 13: 9780345367136
Seller: 2Vbooks, Derwood, MD, U.S.A.
Book
Mass-market paperback. Condition: Very good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. pb 135.
Published by New York New Jersey Trail, 1994
ISBN 10: 1880775026ISBN 13: 9781880775028
Seller: Friends of Pima County Public Library, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Book
paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. NOT Ex-library. Good condition. Slight edgewear and bumping. Clean pages and tight binding. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii.
Published by Romar Distributing Company, 1985
ISBN 10: 0969158300ISBN 13: 9780969158301
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
Book First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Good. Ian Alter (illustrator). First Edition. This is the first edition with white covers; unmarked but for two stamps to title page; clean pages but binding separating at pg 70. ; 124 pages.
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Published by Halycon, 1948
Seller: RPL Library Store, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. FAIR/ NO DUST JACKET as issued. 57 p., 4 black and white plates. Text clean and unmarked. Pages slightly yellowed. Illustrated card wraps soiled and rubbed at corners and spine. Binding firm.
Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1968 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 26 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.
Published by Cambridge, Mass., 1948, 1948
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Wrappers.very good.Cummings, and a very early poem by Merrill, et al.(SG7).
Published by Cambridge, MA: Halcyon, 1948
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. First issue of this scarce little magazine from 1948, includes an early poem by James Merrill. Library stamp to cover (no other markings), light wear. Not Signed.
Published by Cambridge, MA: Halcyon, 1948
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 58pp, printed wrappers. Scarce little magazine from 1948, includes two poems by Wallace Stevens, four plates by Morris Graves, and a very early review of Celine's "Death on the Installment Plan" by Allen Ginsberg. Very nice copy with just a little toning to wrappers. Not Signed.
Published by Lexington Books, 2019
ISBN 10: 1498508898ISBN 13: 9781498508896
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 346 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.
Published by Lettres de l'école freudienne, N°22, mars 1978. Un volume in-4°, broché., 1978
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Published by Lancester, American Physical Society, 1936
Seller: Antiquariat Braun, Gengenbach, Germany
Book
Half cloth binding. Condition: Gut. 26 x 20 cm (10,5 x 8 inches). Present is the complete volume 49 with X, 971 pp. *Released stamp on title back side, else in good condition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000.
Published by Rosecliff, N.p., 1936
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
With small photographs of the "Modern Daylight Factory," union, showing material, cutting, laundry and stitching. About 8 x 9 inches, publisher's embossed cloth portfolio enclosing 38 leaves of inset samples and text on one side, and many samples of dress shirt fabrics with prices on the other. There are a few spots of discoloration to just a few of the samples. It appears as though three small shirt fabric samples are missing from the verso of one of the stiff cards on which they were mounted. Otherwise, fine and extremely attractive.
Published by American Physical Society 1 March 1936, Lancaster, PA, 1936
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Second series, volume 49, number 5. ppl 341-422. Original green wraps. Slight nick at bottom edge of lower wrap, else better than very good. Includes the retort by Einstein and Rosen (originators of speculation on the existence of "worm-holes" in spacetime) to objections made to the general theory of relativity. According to Galina Weinstein: "Between 1935 and 1936, Einstein was occupied with the Schwarzschild solution and the singularity within it while working in Princeton on the unified field theory and with his assistant Nathan Rosen, on the theory of the Einstein-Rosen bridges. He was also occupied with quantum theory. He believed that quantum theory was an incomplete representation of real things. Together with Rosen and Boris Podolsky he invented the EPR paradox. I demonstrate that the two-body problem in general relativity was a heuristic guide in Einstein's and collaborators' 1935 work on the Einstein-Rosen bridge and EPR paradox."Also articles by notable physicists on radioactivity, electron mobility, quantum-mechanical measurement, and so on.
Published by Lancaster, PA & New Yor, NY: American Institute of Physics, 1935
Seller: Landmarks of Science Books, Richmond, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, journal issue, of this famous paper introducing the concept of the 'Einstein-Rosen bridge', now known as a 'wormhole'. "In the last decades of his life, Albert Einstein tried endlessly to unify electromagnetism with his own theory of gravity, general relativity. These efforts are mostly now regarded as quixotic, but a short proposal written in 1935 with a colleague has survived in unlikely fashion as the source of science-fiction ideas for speeding across the universe by means of 'wormholes' through spacetime. From the modern perspective, the paper also illustrates how general relativity posed mathematical and conceptual difficulties that foxed even its creator. Einstein and Nathan Rosen, both at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, wanted to rid physics of singularities - points where mathematical quantities become infinite or otherwise ill-defined such as the concept of a particle that has all its mass concentrated into an infinitely small geometrical point. In general relativity, a point mass curves spacetime around it in a way that was calculated by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916. The Schwarzschild solution has mathematical singularities both at zero and at the so-called Schwarzschild radius. Reinterpretation of the Schwarzschild solution avoids these singularities, Einstein and Rosen argued in their 1935 Phys. Rev. paper. They imagined a path tracing radially inward. Instead of trying to cross the imaginary spherical shell at the singular radius and proceeding down to the center, Einstein and Rosen showed how to match the path onto another track that emerges outward again but into a separate section of spacetime. Imagine funnel shapes pulled out of two adjacent rubber sheets and connected at their necks, providing a continuous, tube-shaped path from one surface to the other. This construction makes a smooth connection or bridge between two distinct pieces of spacetime. Viewed from afar, either part of this solution represents the gravitational effect of a mass because spacetime is strongly curved, but no physical body is present . They hoped their construction would offer a starting point for a unified theory of gravity and electromagnetism based purely on fields, avoiding point particles and the singularities that came with them. Not until 1939 was the modern idea of a black hole broached [Oppenheimer, Phys. Rev. 56, p. 455], and only later were the subtleties of the Schwarzschild solution fully understood. The singular radius that Einstein and Rosen worked hard to avoid became the black hole's event horizon. Although it is a one-way surface light can pass across it going inward, but cannot come out all physical quantities remain well defined at the event horizon. No true singularities arise there. Further theoretical work showed that the Einstein-Rosen 'wormhole' is not, contrary to outward appearances, a stable structure. For an observer trying to pass through, the wormhole opens up and closes too quickly for even a photon to get through. Later work suggested that exotic forms of energy threaded through a wormhole might keep it open but it remains unclear whether such arrangements are physically feasible" (Lindley, "The Birth of Wormholes", Phys. Rev. Focus, 15:11). Wormholes have recently become of greater interest because of the 'ER = EPR' conjecture, proposed by Leonard Susskind and Juan Maldacena in 2013. Six weeks before the present paper, Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Rosen published the famous 'EPR' paper which introduced the idea of 'quantum entanglement'. ER = EPR states that two entangled particles are connected by a wormhole. It is thought by some to be a basis for unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics into a theory of everything. Large 8vo, pp. 111, [1, blank]. Original printed wrappers (faint ink stamp on front wrapper of P.E.O. Memorial Library, Iowa Wesleyan College (now defunct), corners slightly bumped).
Published by American Institue of Physics, Lancaster PA and New York NY, 1935
Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Original wrappers. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of the famous "EPR" paper, one of the most discussed and debated papers of modern physics. WITH: Bohr's response. "In the May 15, 1935 issue of Physical Review Albert Einstein co-authored a paper with his two postdoctoral research associates at the Institute for Advanced Study, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen. The article was entitled 'Can Quantum Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?' [.] Generally referred to as EPR, this paper quickly became a centerpiece in debates over the interpretation of quantum theory, debates that continue today. Ranked by impact, EPR is among the top ten of all papers ever published in Physical Review journals." (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Indeed, like the verification of Einstein's earlier prediction of the gravitational deflection of light, EPR even got attention in the popular press. Eleven days before the paper was published: "The New York Times carried an extensive report under the provocative headline 'Einstein Attacks Quantum Theory,' which was summarized by the sentences: 'Professor Einstein will attack science's important theory of quantum mechanics, a theory of which he was sort of grandfather. He concluded that while it [the quantum mechanics], is "correct" it is not "complete."'" (Mehra and Rechenberg, p. 724-25). In essence, Einstein and his collaborators devised a thought-experiment involving two physical systems (say, A and B) with necessarily-correlated physical properties, that were widely separated in space. (For example, the two systems might have equal and opposite momenta and positions dictated by physical conservation laws.) From the perspective of quantum theory, the two systems could be described by a single wave function, or state vector. A measurement performed on A could precisely determine its position, which would also fix a precise position for B. The momenta of A and B could be determined in the same way. The central insight of EPR was that either the position and momentum of A and B were real, determinate and fixed prior to the measurement of A, or else B only took on a fixed and determinate value when A was measured. But the latter interpretation implied that the measurement event at A had somehow instantaneously fixed the (previously indeterminate) properties of B, despite the spatial separation between A and B, which could be made as great as one wished. Einstein argued that this implied one of two things: either that the quantum description of A and B was incomplete, in that each of them had a fixed, determinate position and momentum at all times; or that nature permitted actions such as measurement to have "nonlocal" influences on distant systems. Leon Rosenfeld, who was in Copenhagen at the time, remembered the fallout of these developments vividly: "This onslaught came down upon as a bolt from the blue [.] As soon as Bohr heard my report of Einstein's argument, everything else was abandoned: we had to clear up such a misunderstanding at once." (Pais, 430). According to Rosenfeld, the next day Bohr was heard muttering "Podolski, Opodolski, Iopodolski," etc. By mocking Podolsky-who was, after all, only a postdoctoral student and the second-named author of EPR-Bohr presumably was, even in his anger, avoiding saying anything that might be interpreted as a direct attack on Einstein. Bohr's argument proceeded with what some might describe as his characteristic lack of explanatory clarity. Indeed, in revisiting EPR fifteen years later, Bohr himself would admit, "[r]ereading these passages, I am deeply aware of the inefficiency of expression which must have made it very difficult to appreciate the trend of the argumentation" (Schilpp, p. 234; see also Lehner, p. 331, who describes Bohr's rebuttal of EPR as "obscure in content but confident in tone."). Generally speaking, however, Bohr's approach seems to boil down to a willingness to accept non-local or "contextual" theory of measurement interactions. In any event, it is clear that Bohr was more prepared than Einstein was to take quantum theory at face value as a complete theory, even if this meant abandoning notions of physical reality that are part of humanity's intuitive understanding of the world. Later in a famous 1964 paper, John Bell, using an EPR-like thought experiment, proved that the situation was even worse than Einstein had imagined: even a hidden variable theory that reproduced the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics would necessarily violate Einstein's desideratum of local realism. As Christoph Lehner puts it, "this proof is of great importance because it shows the impossibility of Einstein's idea that quantum mechanics could be understood as an incomplete description of a reality that is objective and locally definite." (Lehner, p. 234). Included are both papers - the original EPR paper and Bohr's response. IN: The Physical Review,pp.777-780 Vol. 47, No. 10 (whole issue offered), May 15, 1935. Quarto, original green wrappers. WITH: Physical Review, vol. 48, no. 8 (whole issue), October, 1935. Quarto, complete issues in original wrappers; housed together in custom box. Stamp of P.E.O. Memorial Library, Iowa Wesleyan College (now defunct). Mild toning around edges (as often) otherwise crisp, clean copies. RARE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.