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30-Second Einstein: The 50 Fundamentals of His Work, Life and Legacy, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Brian Clegg
$22.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: 30 Second
The 50 fundamentals of his work, life and legacy, each explained in half a minute Spend 30 seconds a day in the company of a colossus from the world of science, and you will soon have his whole story-both his scientific attainments and his extraordinary life-in your head. Einstein was not only an unpara ...Show more
30-Second Einstein: The 50 Fundamentals of His Work, Life and Legacy, each Explained in Half a Minute by Brian Clegg
$22.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: 30 Second
Albert Einstein was an unparalleled scientific genius whose ideas and theories were so shockingly revolutionary, he changed the way the Universe was imagined on multiple occasions. A prodigy in his 20s and a Nobel Prize winner, Einstein was not only a brilliant physicist, but also a human rights campa ...Show more
30-Second Physics The 50 Most Fundamental Concepts in Physics by Brian Clegg
$22.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: 30 Second
The bestselling 30-Second...series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. 30-Second Physics tackles the big ideas behind life as we know it, ...Show more
Are Numbers Real? by Brian Clegg
$44.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organised their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them? Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own, occupyi ...Show more
Are Numbers Real? The Uncanny Relationships Between Maths and the Physical World by Brian Clegg
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them? Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own, occupyi ...Show more
Big Data: How the Information Revolution is Transforming Our Lives by Brian Clegg
$22.99 NZD
Category: History
Is the Brexit vote successful big data politics or the end of democracy? Why do airlines overbook, and why do banks get it wrong so often? How does big data enable Netflix to forecast a hit, CERN to find the Higgs boson and medics to discover if red wine really is good for you? And how are companies usi ...Show more
Build Your Own Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel by Brian Clegg
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
There is no physical law to prevent time travel - nothing in physics to say that it is not possible. So surely the invention of a time machine is just a matter of ... time? In Build Your Own Time Machine, acclaimed science author Brian Clegg takes inspiration from his childhood heroes Doctor Who and H. ...Show more
Conundrum - Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge! by Brian Clegg
$22.99 NZD
Category: Crosswords, Sudoku & Games
The ultimate trial of knowledge and cunning, Enigma features 200 cryptic puzzles and ciphers. The solutions link throughout the book - so you need to solve them all to get to the final round. With a focus on ciphers and codebreaking, Enigma contains twenty sections, each built around a specific subject ...Show more
Dark Matter and Dark Energy by Brian Clegg
$22.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: Hot Science Ser.
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has everfaced. Since the 1970s,astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them toaccount for the way they spin ar ...Show more
Essential Science: The Only Science Book You Will Ever Need by Brian Clegg
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Essential Science aims to be the most detailed, accessible and authoritative book of its kind. Each of the 34 discoveries is broken down into seven essential elements to aid comprehension and inform the reader about what really matters: THE ESSENTIAL IDEA: a concise summary of the idea or discovery that ...Show more
Gravity: How the Most Mysterious Force in the Universe Shapes Our Lives by Brian Clegg
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these, gravity may the most obvious, but it is also the most mysterious. Newton managed to predict the force of gravity but couldn't explain how it worked at a distance. Then Einstein picked up on the simple premise that gravity and acce ...Show more
How It All Works - All Scientific Laws and Phenomena Illustrated and Demonstrated by Adam Dant; Brian Clegg
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
The Universe is inconceivably complex. Its component parts though follow a set of unbreakable laws that have somehow been coded into their very fabric since the beginning of time. These laws play out in different ways at different scales, giving rise to the familiar phenomena of everyday life - as well ...Show more