My new book The House of Wisdom, will be published soon (30 September 2010) by Penguin Press.
It is the story of the achievements of the medieval scholars of the golden age of the Islamic Empire between the 8th and 15th centuries.
Quantum Aspects of Life is now available from Amazon
I have written a number of popular science books. Click on the links below.
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| Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed (2003) | Nucleus: A Trip into the Heart of Matter (2001) | Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines (1999) |
Full list of books (with various levels of my involvement):
- Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines, Institute of Physics Publishing, 1999. Translated into 9 languages.
- Scattering, co-author, with Jeff Tostevin, of chapter 4 within topic 3.1 of multi-volume reference book edited by P. Sabatier and E.R. Pike, 2001.
- Collins Encyclopaedia of the Universe. 20,000 word chapter on quantum mechanics as part of large general interest reference book on astronomy, Harper-Collins, 2001.
- NUCLEUS: A Trip into the Heart of Matter, R.S. Mackintosh, J.S. Al-Khalili, B. Jonson and T. Pena, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Translated into 5 languages.
- Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003.
- Invisible Worlds, Piers Bizony and Jim Al-Khalili (consultant editor), Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004
- Lecture Notes in Physics: Nuclear Physics with Exotic Beams Volume I, Eds. J.S. Al-Khalili and E. Roeckl, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
- Lecture Notes in Physics: Nuclear Physics with Exotic Beams Volume II, Eds. J.S. Al-Khalili and E. Roeckl, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
- Lecture Notes in Physics: Nuclear Physics with Exotic Beams Volume III, Eds. J.S. Al-Khalili and E. Roeckl, Springer-Verlag, 2008, in press.
- Foreword for ATOM, by Piers Bizony, 2007, book accompanying the BBC TV series.
- Quantum Origins of Life, ed. Paul Davies, Oxford U.P. (2008)