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How Many Moons Does the Earth Have?: The Ultimate Science Quiz Book by Brian Clegg
$16.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Why did Uuq become Fl? Why is the sky blue? Why is the sky black? What is spaghettification? There's a problem with the typical pub quiz. It always features far too much sport, 1980s pop and celebrity gossip - and not nearly enough science. How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? is the ultimate solution. T ...Show more
Inflight Science - A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window by Brian Clegg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Reading Level: good-very good
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window by Brian Clegg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
The perfect companion to any flight - a guide to the science on view from your window seat. There are few times when science is so immediate as when you're in a plane. Your life is in the hands of the scientists and engineers who enable tons of metal and plastic to hurtle through the sky at hundreds of ...Show more
Introducing Graphic Guide - More Great Theories of Science by Brian Clegg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Introducing...
Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's most thrilling ideas. Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired ...Show more
Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide by Brian Clegg, Oliver Pugh
$12.99 AUD
Category: REFERENCE | Series: Introducing...
Compact INTRODUCING guide to a boundlessly intriguing topic. The Ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. A German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers. How will you ...Show more
Scientifica Historia: How the World's Great Science Books Chart the History of Knowledge by Brian Clegg
$39.99 AUD
Category: REFERENCE | Series: Liber Historica Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Scientifica Historica is a unique, essay-based review of those books that marked the development of science from classical times to the new millennium. The result is a fascinating chronological exploration of human endeavour within the context of society, politics and even the military, where the twists ...Show more
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Changed Everyday Life by Brian Clegg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. Physics informs our understanding of how the world works - but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to u ...Show more
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life by Brian Clegg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet.
Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe by Brian Clegg
$44.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
How patterns--from diagrams of spacetime to particle trails revealed by supercolliders--offer clues to the fundamental workings of the physical world. Our universe might appear chaotic, but deep down it's simply a myriad of rules working independently to create patterns of action, force, and consequence ...Show more
Ten Physicists Who Transformed Our Understanding of Reality by Brian Clegg
$21.99 AUD
$24.99 (12% off)
Category: Physical Sciences
Acclaimed popular-science writer Brian Clegg and popular TV and radio astronomer Rhodri Evans give us a Top Ten list of physicists as the central theme to build an exploration of the most exciting breakthroughs in physics, looking not just at the science, but also the fascinating lives of the scientists ...Show more
What Colour is the Sun?: Mind-Bending Science Facts in the Solar System's Brightest Quiz by Brian Clegg
$17.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Why do your fingers go wrinkly in the bath? What kind of animal can have 21 limbs? Who would really win a fight between a T.Rex and Godzilla? Test your knowledge of all things scientific with the biggest, brightest and most mind-bending quiz book this side of the Big Bang. Featuring 100 brain-melting Q& ...Show more
What If Einstein Was Wrong: Asking the Big Questions About Physics by Brian Clegg
$18.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
What if...? are the two words that sow the seeds for human speculation, experimentation, invention, evolution, revolution, and change. In an uncertain age, economists are asking, What if growth stops growing? Scientists, What if light speed gets overtaken? and politicians, What if the third world become ...Show more