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Reference Titles

Concise History of Science & Invention: An Illustrated Time Line by Goddard, Jolyon
Call Number: Reference Q125 .C576 2010
ISBN: 1426205449
Publication Date: 2010
Battleground Science and Technology by Restivo, Sal P., Denton, P.
Call Number: Reference Q175.52.N7 B38 2008
ISBN: 0313341648
Publication Date: 2008
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology by New York: McGraw-Hill
Call Number: Reference Q121 .M3 2007
ISBN: 0071441433
Publication Date: 2007

Big Bang Theory

About Time by Adam Frank
Call Number: GEN COL: QB981 .F67 2011
ISBN: 9781439169599
Publication Date: 2011
Time, Space, Stars & Man: The Story of the Big Bang by Michael M. Woolfson
Call Number: Available online through ebrary Academic Complete
ISBN: 9781848169340
Publication Date: 2008

Black Holes

Gravity's Fatal Attraction by Mitchell C. Begelman; Martin Rees
Call Number: GEN COL: QB843.B55 B44 2010
ISBN: 9780521717939
Publication Date: 2009
Cracking the Einstein Code by Fulvio Melia
Call Number: Available online through ebrary
ISBN: 9780226519548
Publication Date: 2009

Cryptography

Secure Multi-Party Computation by Edited by M. M. Prabhakaran; A. Sahai
Call Number: Electronic Books
ISBN: 1614991685
Publication Date: 2013
Cryptography Engineering by Niels Ferguson; Bruce Schneier; Tadayoshi Kohno
Call Number: Available online through ebrary Academic Complete
ISBN: 0470474246
Publication Date: 2010

Fermat's Last Theorem

Visions of Infinity by Ian Stewart
Call Number: GEN COL: QA93 .S75 2013
ISBN: 9780465022403
Publication Date: 2013
A History of Mathematics by Carl B. Boyer; Uta C. Merzbach
Call Number: Available online through ebrary
ISBN: 9780470630549
Publication Date: 2011

Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider and Higgs Boson Research by Christopher J. Hong
Call Number: Available online through ebrary Academic Complete
Publication Date: 2011
The Large Hadron Collider by Martin Beech
Call Number: Available online through ebrary
ISBN: 9781441956682
Publication Date: 2010

Life on Other Planets

Weird Life by David Toomey
Call Number: GEN COL: QH313 .T66 2013
ISBN: 9780393071580
Publication Date: 2013
The Life of Super-Earths by Dimitar Sasselov
Call Number: GEN COL: QH326 .S27 2012
ISBN: 9780465021932
Publication Date: 2012

String Theory

Superstring Theory in the 21st Century. Horizons in World Physics. Volume 270 by Edited by Gerold B. Charney
Call Number: Electronic Books
ISBN: 1616683856
Publication Date: 2010
The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory by George Musser
Call Number: GEN COL: QC794.6.S85 M87 2009ab
ISBN: 9781433275562
Publication Date: 2009

Renewable Energy

A Piece of the Sun by Daniel Clery
Call Number: GEN COL: QC791.735 .C25 2013
ISBN: 9781468304930
Publication Date: 2013
Natural and Artifical Photosynthesis by Reza Razeghifard
Call Number: Available online through ebrary Academic Complete
ISBN: 9781118659847
Publication Date: 2013

Theory of Evolution

Advances in Evolutionary Developmental Biology by Edited by J. Todd Streelman
Call Number: Available online through ebrary Academic Complete
ISBN: 9781118707340
Publication Date: 2013
Relentless Evolution by John N. Thompson
Call Number: Available online through EBSCOhost
ISBN: 9780226018751
Publication Date: 2013