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"Classical Mechanics by T Kibble and F Berkshire is tailor-made for budding theoreticians. It lays the groundwork for relativity and quantum theory, quickly progressing beyond Newtonian mechanics to the alternative formulations of Joseph Lagrange and William Hamilton."

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"This book presents important results of probability and statistics without making heavy mathematical demands to the reader. Either mature readers who long ago lost contact with formal mathematics or younger ones, who struggle somewhat with the subject, may find it helpful to test their new knowledge by tackling some problems posed at the end of each chapter ... reading the solution may help to strengthen his, or her, understanding. It should enable an intelligent reader to properly assess statistical information and to understand that the same information can be presented in different ways."

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"This is an outstanding and much anticipated volume, which collects in one place a number of the seminal papers written by one of the pioneers in the philosophy of chemistry ... As a companion to Scerri's highly acclaimed book The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance, this volume succeeds in bringing his important work on the many facets of the reductionism debate to the attention of a new group of readers, who need to appreciate the prominent role that this debate has played from the outset in all areas of the philosophy of chemistry, and the role that Scerri himself has played in this debate ... The volume itself is handsomely produced and the selections are well chosen ... Every scholar in the philosophy of chemistry will want to have this volume close, to dip into, to learn about the latest thinking of one of the leading scholars in the field, and to have as a handy collection of his earlier papers."

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