Vocational & Technical School Books

Ambrosia Wharton is a little faster and a little stronger than her classmates. She has all the problems of the average teenager, except Ambrosia Wharton is a vampire.Nightmares have forced her to live with her mother in Angel Beach, California. The problem is that Ambrosia, Amber for short, hasn't received her powers yet. She has a new school, new friends and has a host of new emotions but there is something about this boy, Adrian...Becoming Midnight is part Graphic Novel, part Novel and all Vampire.

From the bestselling author of The Theoretical Minimum, an accessible introduction to the math and science of quantum mechanics <BR>  <BR> “If you want to know how physicists really think about the world, this book is the place to start.”―Sean Carroll, author of The Particle at the End of the Universe <BR><BR> First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind teams up with data engineer Art Friedman to present the theory and associated mathematics of the strange world of quantum mechanics. <BR>  <BR> In this follow-up to the New York Times best-selling The Theoretical Minimum, Susskind and Friedman provide a lively introduction to this famously difficult topic by illustrating the behavior of sub-atomic objects through mathematical abstractions. Unlike other popularizations that shy away from quantum mechanics' weirdness, Quantum Mechanics embraces it. The authors offer crystal-clear explanations of the principles of quantum states, uncertainty and time dependence, entanglement, and particle and wave states, among other topics, and each chapter includes exercises to ensure mastery of each area.  <BR>  <BR> Approachable yet rigorous, Quantum Mechanics provides a tool kit for amateur scientists to learn physics at their own pace.