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Biographic Tesla: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Brian CLEGG
Category: Gift | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an engineer and inventor, instrumental in developing the alternating-current (AC) electrical system and wireless radio communications we still use today. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he was born during a lightning storm; that when he first arr ...Show more
Biomimetics: How Lessons from Nature can Transform Technology by Brian Clegg
Category: Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind.
Conundrum - Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge! by Brian Clegg
Category: Gift
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
Cracking Quantum Physics by Brian Clegg (Author)
Category: Science | Series: Cracking Series
Enter the invisible world of sub-atomic physics and discover the very core of existence. Cracking Quantum Physics takes you through every area of particle physics to clearly explain how our world was, and is, created, and breaks down the most complex theories into easily understandable elements. Subject ...Show more
Dark Matter and Dark Energy by Brian Clegg
Category: Science | 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
Category: Science
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
Everyday Chaos - The Mathematics of Unpredictability, from the Weather to the Stock Market by Brian Clegg
Category: Science
Chaos and complexity explained, with illuminating examples ranging from unpredictable pendulums to London's wobbly Millennium Bridge.The math we are taught in school is precise and only deals with simple situations. Reality is far more complex. Trying to understand a system with multiple interacting com ...Show more
Exploring the Universe by Brian Clegg
Category: Reference
There are few topics more awe-inspiring than cosmology. What is the universe? How does it work? Where did it come from? These fundamental questions intrigue adults and children alike. This accessible guide brings alive humanity's attempts to explain the existence of everything and explores the latest an ...Show more
Game Theory: Understanding the Mathematics of Life by Brian Clegg
Category: Science
Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behaviour. Only much later did he realise that Asimov's 'psychohistory' had a real-world equivalent: game theory. Or ...Show more
Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe by Brian Clegg
Category: Science | Series: Hot Science
Until then, investigation of the universe had depended on electromagnetic radiation: visible light, radio, X-rays and the rest. But gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of space and time - are unrelenting, passing through barriers that stop light dead.At the two 4-kilometre long LIGO observatorie ...Show more
How It All Works - All Scientific Laws and Phenomena Illustrated and Demonstrated by Adam Dant; Brian Clegg
Category: Science
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
How Many Moons Does the Earth Have?: The Ultimate Science Quiz Book by Brian Clegg
Category: Science
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