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Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics tells the thrilling story of one of the greatest intellectual leaps of all time Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology and biology, setting in ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science. In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrest ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
$39.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with one of the most transformative scientific concepts- quantum theory. Almost a century later, quantum physics has giv ...Show more
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. From Aristotle to Albe ...Show more
Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli
$39.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing ...Show more
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Independent, Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Scientist, Evening Standard Books of the Year 2015, The Sunday Times Bestseller. Everything you need to know about modern physics, the universe and our place in the world in seven enlightening lessons 'Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with th ...Show more
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: good
In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind.Everything you need to know about modern physics, the u ...Show more
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
$22.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understandi ...Show more
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
One of the most inspiring and counter-intuitive thinkers of our age, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on science, history and humanity. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the m ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
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