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Breakthrough by Marcus Chown
24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power. 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever known before? And why is mathematics so good at revealing n ...Show more
The Ascent of Gravity - The quest to understand the force that explains everything by Marcus Chown
37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognised and described yet it is the least understood. It is a 'force' that keeps your feet on the ground yet no such force actually exists. Gravity, to steal the words of Win ...Show more
What a Wonderful World: Life, the Universe and Everything in a Nutshell by Marcus Chown
27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather than nothing? In ...Show more
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