Christopher T Hill: 7 books

When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyze the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics govern the whole universe at all times and all places. Physicists call the eternal, ubiquitous constancy...

La fisica quantistica è la più solida base delle nostre conoscenze. Praticamente tutto ciò che sappiamo sul mondo passa per questa disciplina, e sono tantissime le realizzazioni pratiche che questa scienza ha reso possibili: dal laser ai transistor, dalla risonanza magnetica al telefono cellulare...

Dopo Fisica quantistica per poeti, Christopher Hill e Leon Lederman – il premio Nobel che ha coniato l’espressione «particella di Dio» – tornano in libreria con questo nuovo libro per spiegarci, con la loro usuale chiarezza cristallina, cosa dobbiamo aspettarci dalla fisica dei prossimi anni....

Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unraveled.On July 4, 2012, the long-sought Higgs Boson--aka "the God Particle"--was discovered at the world's largest particle accelerator, the LHC, in Geneva,...

African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled explores the historical, legal, and socio-political issues of education affecting African American students and their career and college readiness. Each chapter has been written based on the authors’ experience and...

People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic. Studies in Culture Contact:...

In Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas, Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires critically examine the current understanding of relationality in the Americas, covering a diverse range of topics from Indigenous cosmologies to the life-world of the Inuit dog. The contributors to this wide-ranging...