Research Guides @ Fordham: Physics: Getting Started

Books of Note

The Little Book of Cosmology by Lyman Page
Online Resource
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2020
Astronomical: from quarks to quasars, the science of space at its strangest First Pegasus Books cloth edition by Tim James
Call Number: QB981 .J34 2021
New York : Pegasus Books, 2021
The Secret Life of Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone by Lisa Harvey-Smith
Online Resource
La Vergne : Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd, 2020
The Light Ages by Seb Falk
Call Number: Q124.97 .F35 2020
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2020
Space Atlas, Second Edition by James Trefil; Buzz Aldrin (Foreword by)
Call Number: QB65 .T74 2019
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2019
Quantum reality: the quest for the real meaning of quantum mechanics by J.E. Baggot
Online Resource
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020
The Foundation of Reality: Fundamentality, Space, and Time by David Glick
Online Resource
Oxford University Press, 2020
The Impacts of Racism and Bias on Black People Pursuing Careers in Science, Engineering, and Medicine by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Policy and Global Affairs; Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; Camara P. Jones (Editor); Cedric M. Bright (Editor); Cato T. Laurencin (Editor)
Call Number: Q147 .I473 2020
Washington, DC : the National Academies Press, 2020

Victor Hess; Nobel Prize in Physics 1936. Professor at Fordham University 1944-1956.

Style Guides for Scientific Writing

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian; Joseph Bizup (Revised by); Wayne C. Booth (Revised by); Gregory G. Colomb (Revised by); William T. FitzGerald (Revised by); University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff (Revised by); Joseph M. Williams (Revised by)
Call Number: LB2369 .T8 2018
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Call Number: PE1478 .M57 ED. 8
(Restricted circulation Reference Desk item)
New York : Modern Language Association of America
The ACS Style Guide by Lorrin R. Garson (Editor); Anne M. Coghill (Editor)
Call Number: QD8.5 .A25 2006
Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, 2006
AMA Manual of Style by Cheryl Iverson (Editor); Stacy Christiansen (Editor); Annette Flanagin (Editor); JAMA and Archives Journals Staff (Editor)
Call Number: R119 .A533 2007
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors by Elizabeth A. Martin
Call Number: T11 .N48 2009
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
The Craft of Scientific Writing by Michael Alley
Online Resource
New York, NY : Springer, 2018
Scientific Style and Format by Council of Science Editors
Call Number: T11 .S386 2014
Chicago : Council of Science Editors ; Chicago ; London : in cooperation with The University of Chicago Press, 2014
Writing in Online Courses by Phoebe Jackson (Editor); Christopher Weaver (Editor)
Online Resource
Bloomfield: Myers Education Press, 2018
Publishing Journal Articles by Zheng Yan; Catherine Snow
Online Resource
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021
Presentation Skills for Scientists by Edward Zanders; Lindsay MacLeod
Online Resource
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.