Discovering Physics: Books for Curious Minds
About the Book Series
This series offers accessible and concise introductions to the physical sciences. Titles aim to provide an understanding of fundamental and cutting edge topics but written in an accessible manner for those without a formal physics education. Books explore topics such as astronomy and astrophysics, medical physics and biomedical engineering, quantum physics, theoretical physics, atomic, molecular, and plasma physics, in terms of both theory and experiment.
If you are interested in writing a book for the series, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact Rebecca Hodges-Davies, Editor for Physics books, at [email protected] and Carolina Antunes, Editor for Physics books, at [email protected]. Proposal guidelines can be accessed at http://www.crcpress.com/resources/authors.
Universe, Human Species, Reality: A Physicalist Approach
1st Edition
By Jacques Vanier
August 11, 2025
Universe, Human Species, Reality: A Physicalist Approach describes the functioning of the material universe with the use of intermediate mathematical language. The book uses a physicalist approach in the sense that it is based entirely on physical phenomena and on reality, and does not use ...
Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomson’s Electron to Higgs’ Boson
2nd Edition
By Martin Pohl
June 29, 2025
Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomson’s Electron to Higgs’ Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to the completion of the Standard Model of particle physics in the early ...
First Steps in Space-Time: A Brief Introduction to Special Relativity
1st Edition
By Ed Macaulay
June 10, 2025
First Steps in Space-Time: A Brief Introduction to Special Relativity provides an accessible, authentic, and readable introduction to the theory of special relativity. The academic level of the book builds only on skills that would be covered in a GCSE maths course, such as Pythagoras's theorem, ...
Invisible Light: The Remarkable Story of Radiology
1st Edition
By Adrian Thomas
August 26, 2024
The book is a developed history of the radiological sciences – covering the back-story to Röntgen’s discovery, the discovery itself and immediate reception the early days of radiology leading to classical radiology (the pre-digital world). The 1970s as the ‘golden decade’ of radiology will be ...
A Meteorite Killed My Cow: Stuff That Happens When Space Rocks Hit Earth
1st Edition
By Richard Greenwood
May 08, 2024
Meteorites are generally considered to be bizarre and exotic space junk that you only ever come across in museums. But the reality is very different. Meteorites are generally harmless, with the exception of a cow in Venezuela and a few dinosaurs. Well, quite a few dinosaurs in fact! They are ...
Cosmic Ray Physics: An Introduction to The Cosmic Laboratory
1st Edition
By Veronica Bindi, Mercedes Paniccia, Martin Pohl
March 23, 2023
This book introduces you to the physics of cosmic rays, charged particles which reach us from known – and maybe unknown – sources in the cosmos. Starting from a brief history of this fascinating field, it reviews what we know about the creation of elements in the Big Bang and inside stars. It ...
Quantum Reality: Theory and Philosophy
2nd Edition
By Jonathan Allday
November 11, 2022
As probably the most successful scientific theory ever created, quantum theory has profoundly changed our view of the world and extended the limits of our knowledge, impacting both the theoretical interpretation of a tremendous range of phenomena and the practical development of a host of ...
Imagining Imaging
1st Edition
By Michael R. Jackson
November 26, 2021
From Roentgen to Rembrandt, Hounsfield to Hollywood and Vesalius to videogames, Imagining Imaging explores the deeply entwined relationship between art (and visual-based culture) and radiology / medical imaging. Including artworks from numerous historical eras representing varied geographic ...
Minding the Heavens: The Story of our Discovery of the Milky Way
2nd Edition
By Leila Belkora
May 13, 2021
Praise for the first edition: "A terrific blend of the science and the history." Martha Haynes, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University, New York, USA "The book is a treat… Highly recommended for public and academic libraries." Peter Hepburn, now Head Librarian, College of the ...
Infrared Astronomy – Seeing the Heat: from William Herschel to the Herschel Space Observatory
1st Edition
By David L. Clements
March 31, 2021
Uncover the Secrets of the Universe Hidden at Wavelengths beyond Our Optical Gaze William Herschel’s discovery of infrared light in 1800 led to the development of astronomy at wavelengths other than the optical. Infrared Astronomy – Seeing the Heat: from William Herschel to the Herschel Space ...
Cosmological Clues: Evidence for the Big Bang, Dark Matter and Dark Energy
1st Edition
By Carolyn Devereux
December 24, 2020
Did the Universe have a beginning? Will it have an end? Or has it always been the same, never changing? This is the subject of cosmology; the study of the Universe, and this book provides a perfect introduction to the subject for anyone that is interested in the wonders of our Universe This book ...
Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomson’s Electron to Higgs’ Boson
1st Edition
By Martin Pohl
September 14, 2020
CHOICE Highly Recommended 2021 Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomson's Electron to Higgs' Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to the completion of the Standard...