Books with author Richard Feynman

In 1903 Alaska governor John Brady collected fifteen old totem poles for preservation at Stika National Historical Park, creating one of the most famous collections of totem poles in the world. One pole became separated, and its fate remained a mystery for nearly ninety years. This revised edition of Home before the Raven Caws unravels the mystery of that missing pole from the Brady collection. The old Alaskan pole found its way to Indiana over a hundred years ago. A new version of the pole stands today at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis. The first portion of the book serves as a general primer of the history and cultural significance, identification, carving, and raising of totem poles.

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher is a publishing first. This set couples a book containing the six easiest chapters from Richard P. Feynman’s landmark work, Lectures on Physics—specifically designed for the general, non-scientist reader—with the actual recordings of the late, great physicist delivering the lectures on which the chapters are based. Nobel Laureate Feynman gave these lectures just once, to a group of Caltech undergraduates in 1961 and 1962, and these newly released recordings allow you to experience one of the Twentieth Century’s greatest minds—as if you were right there in the classroom.

An outstanding communicator, richard p feynman inspired a generation of students with his energetic, unorthodox style of teaching drawn from his celebrated and landmark text lectures on physics, six easy pieces reveals feynmans distinctive style while introducing the essentials of physics to the general reader the topics explored include atoms, the fundamentals of physics and its relation to other sciences, the theory of gravitation and quantum behaviour if one book was all that could be passed on to the next generation of scientists it would undoubtedly have to be six easy pieces - john gribbin, new scientist