A collage of book covers

Books for the holidays

It has been a busy year for our academics and researchers when it comes to book publications – below is just a selection of some they have authored alongside some suggested reading for those curious about physics...

A selection of book covers
‘Portals to a new reality’ by Professor Vlatko Vedral; 'Liberating science - the early universe, evolution, and the public voice of science' by Professor Andrew Steane; 'General Relativity for the Gifted Amateur' by Professors Tom Lancaster and Stephen Blundell; 'Origins: The Cosmos in Verse' by Professor Joseph Conlon.


A selection of book covers
'Destroyer of Worlds - the deep history of the nuclear age' by Professor Frank Close; 'Essays in Physics
Thirty-two thoughtful essays on topics in undergraduate-level physics' by Professor Geoffrey Brooker; 'Effect of Digitization on Human Evolution' by Dr Jubin Mitra; 'Back to the Moon' by Professor Joseph Silk.
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'Forces of the Day' by Samantha Lewis with input from Professor Kirsty Duffy (out June 2026); 'Seis problemas que la ciencia no puede resolver' (Six problems science cannot solve) by Professor Sonia Contera (in Spanish); 'Instrumentation and Control Systems for Nuclear Power' by Dr Mauro Cappelli with contribution by Dr Marco Zerbini. 
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'Entropy: A very Short Introduction' by Professor James Binney; 'Einstein: A Life in Science and Music' by Professor Brian Foster (out February 2026); 'Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character' by Richard P. Feynman; 'When we cease to understand the world' by Benjamin Labatut. 
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'The Wonderful World of Relativity' by Professor Andrew Steane; 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb' by Richard Rhodes; 'The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark  by Matter' by Govert Schilling; 'Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré' by E.T. Bell.
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'What If?' & 'What If?2' by Randall Munroe; 'Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions' by Edwin Abbott Abbott; 'Mr Tompkins in Paperback' by George Gamow.