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10 Short Lessons in Time Travel by Brian Clegg
Category: Science | Series: Pocket Einstein Ser.
'10 Short Lessons in Time Travel lucidly sums up the essential parts of this fascinating subject.' John Gribbin________________________In Ten Short Lessons in Time Travel, Brian Clegg takes us on a fascinating and up-to-date tour of the workings of the universe that suggest the possibility of journeying ...Show more
30-Second Einstein: The 50 Fundamentals of His Work, Life and Legacy, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Brian Clegg
Category: Science | 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
Category: Science | 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 Newton: The 50 Crucial Concepts, Roles and Performers, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Brian Clegg
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: 30 Second
Not only a towering figure in his own era, Newton also left an immense scientific legacy, much of which still underpins key theories today. So if the principal thing you remember about him is that an apple fell on his head, it's high time you learned a little more. 30-Second Newton offers a fast-track u ...Show more
30-Second Physics The 50 Most Fundamental Concepts in Physics by Brian Clegg
Category: Science | 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
30-Second Physics: The 50 Most Fundamental Concepts in Physics, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Brian Clegg
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
A Brief History of Infinity - The Quest to Think the Unthinkable by Brian Clegg
Category: History | Series: Brief History of
We human beings have trouble with infinity - yet infinity is a surprisingly human subject. This title takes us on a tour of that borderland between the extremely large and the ultimate that takes us from Archimedes, counting the grains of sand that would fill the universe, to the theories on the physica ...Show more
Are Numbers Real? by Brian Clegg
Category: Non-Fiction
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
Category: 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
Category: Science
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
Biographic - Einstein - Great Lives in Graphic Form by Brian CLEGG
Category: Gift | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the creator of the theory of relativity that revolutionized modern science. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he did not learn to speak until he was 4 years old; that he was asked to become the President of Israel in 1952, but refused; that he w ...Show more