Doing Physics, Second Edition, Second Edition

"Krieger . . . excellently tells those in our human society outside the physics world how physicists think, plan, and go about understanding nature."—Choice

"This book is a cultural phenomenology of doing physics. It describes the ways physicists actually do their work—their motives, and their ways of making sense of the world—so that outsiders can understand it."—good reads

"This is an important and provocative book, timely and full of insight. Fail to read it, and you may miss out on the physics of the future."—John Gribbin, New Scientist

"This unusual book introduces 'the moves, the rituals, the incantations' physicists invoke as they go about conceptualizing Nature. The lucid-but-loaded writing makes quite complex ideas accessible to the mathless reader. . . . The rewards are a better understanding of how physics is done."—Whole Earth Millennial Catalog

"An excellent [and innovative] book."—Isis

"Not many books about physics have six citations of Adam Smith. Building on the analogy that Nature is like an economic system, Krieger provides a novel analysis of how physicists construct models of the world. A fascinating insight into the way scientists think."—Dick Easterlin, University of Southern California