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motl on weinberg Motl has some rather lengthy comments on the Weinberg paper.

Courant and John - Introduction to Calculus and Analysis Take a look at Courant and John - Introduction to Calculus and Analysis. The first volume is single variable calculus with an analytic flavor and a many applications. It can be thought of as between Lang and Spivak.

There is a truly wonderful book of the sort that you're asking about I believe: Károly Simonyi's Cultural History of Physics. He describes the experimental methods and theoretical interpretations that created scientific knowledge, from ancient times to the present day, within the cultural...

I have bought a set for $18 that had no rust at all. I also have an Alvin set and the workmanship and materials are not in the same league as the K&E sets from yester-year. As for other tools you can find them on eBay as well. Since the dominance of computer drafting the market for quality...

You can find very nice Keuffel & Esser compass and drafting sets on eBay for no more than you'd spend to buy a new set of Alvin drafting tools and the quality of the K&E items is generally superior to the modern items. There's nothing like the tactile feedback of using a well engineered compass...

If you like Townsend's Quantum Physics then his Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics is a good follow on.

I prefer Courant & John's 2 volumes "Introduction to Calculus and Analysis" to Spivak for a treatment balanced between math and physics. Also Hardy's "A Course in Pure Mathematics" follows right from A2 I believe. Shortly after Spivak was published it was used for my calculus I course and the...

Serge Lang and I.M. Gelfand You can consider Serge Lang's Basic Mathematics and the two books by Gelfand Trigonometry and Algebra

And I note that sometime ago you had mentioned: that passed without comment and now at http://pirsa.org/C13029/1 it seems the organizers have thought it relevant to schedule back-to-back talks: Livine: Spinor and Twistor Networks in Loop Gravity and Skinner: Twistor Strings for N=8...

also After which is the must watch of Skinner's talk: Twistor Strings for N=8 Supergravity http://pirsa.org/13070064/ which has a cameo appearance of the SBT: http://blog.vixra.org/2013/07/19/super-yang-mills-vs-loop-quantum-gravity which Smolin commented on positively at the...

The print and paper quality are typically not as good for international editions vs U.S./European editions. The international editions are usually sold in developing markets. The content is the same. It is of course not illegal to purchase the international edition in the U.S. If there is a...

Zee - Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell Zee's book, Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell was just published a few days ago and so far looks quite nice - well past page 22 it is still quite pedagogical.

couple of Atkins' texts A calculus based honors introduction to chemistry: Chemical Principles and the upper division Molecular Quantum Mechanics are up-to-date and worth looking at. Neither is short but they don't sugar coat and you can skip around.

Two undergraduate texts that offer entrée to differential geometry are: 1) Singer & Thorpe; "Lecture Notes On Elementary Topology And Geometry" covering topology, an introduction to manifolds, some Riemannian geometry and algebraic topology. Pressley; "Elementary Differential Geometry" covers...

MacLane & Birkhoff's Algebra is the only undergraduate text that uses category theory from the start to unify the presentation of the traditional topics if undergraduate algebra (don't confuse with Birkhoff & MacLane's A Survey of Modern Algebra). It is very readable. There is also Lawvere's...