books
Current project: at the moment I am writing The House of Wisdom, a history of Arabic science. It will be published next year by Penguin Press.
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)