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Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe by Marcus Chown
Category: Science
The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general theory of relativity. But, almost a century after their advent, most people haven't the slightest clue what either is about. Did you know that there's so much empty space inside matter that the entire human race co ...Show more
The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything by Marcus Chown
Category: Other Science
Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described yet it is the least understood. It is a "force" that keeps your feet on the ground yet no such force actually exists. Gravity, to steal the words of Wi ...Show more
The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything by Marcus Chown
Category: Science
The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017 'Entertaining and at times mind-boggling guide to the weakest of nature's fundamental forces, which also controls the fate of the universe' Manjit Kumar, The Times Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the uni ...Show more
The Ascent of Gravity - The quest to understand the force that explains everything by Marcus Chown
Category: Science
Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognised and described yet it is the least understood. It is a 'force' that keeps your feet on the ground yet no such force actually exists. Gravity, to steal the words of Win ...Show more
The Magicians by Marcus Chown
Category: Science
The spellbinding story of the 'magicians': scientists whose eureka breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's mysterious predictive power.
The Never-ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science by Marcus Chown
Category: Science
In Chown's most ambitious book to date he sets out to answer some of the most provocative questions of today: Where did we come from? What the hell are we doing here? Is Elvis alive and kicking in another space domain? What's beyond the edge of the Universe? Did aliens build the stars? Can we live forev ...Show more
The One Thing You Need to Know: The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science by Marcus Chown
Category: Science
From gravity to black holes, tides to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks down complex science into manageable chunks, explaining the one thing you really need to know to get to grips with the subject. In a world in which most people a ...Show more
The Photographic Card Deck of the Solar System: 126 Cards Featuring Stories, Scientific Date, and Big Beautiful Photographs of All the Planets, Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies That Orbit Our Sun by Marcus Chown
Category: Science
The Photographic Card Deck of the Solar System includes 126, 127 x 127mm cards. An individual planet, moon, asteroid is featured on each card. Additional cards explain scientific phenomenon such as the creation of the solar system, gravitation dead zones, the movement of planets, the possibility of life ...Show more
The Solar System - A visual exploration of the planets, moons, and other heavenly bodies that orbit our sun by Marcus Chown
Category: Non-Fiction
In this title, bestselling author Marcus Chown leads us on a grand tour through the incredible diversity of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft that surround the Sun in our cosmic backyard. Illuminating his insightful and surprising text are a wealth of beautiful images and diagrams, print ...Show more
Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas by Marcus Chown & Govert Schilling
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
In 140 pages, two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of the biggest questions in physics - in the form of 10 or so tweets per page. They set themselves the challenge of boiling down what is essential on each subject into sentences of 140 characters, and the results are both entertaining and ...Show more
Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas by Marcus Chown
Category: Science
In 140 pages, two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of the biggest questions in physics - in the form of 10 or so tweets per page. They set themselves the challenge of boiling down what is essential on each subject into sentences of 140 characters, and the results are both entertaining and ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kelvin by Marcus Chown
Category: Science & Natural History
A hugely accessible exploration of the science of the everyday world around us. Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there is furnace at a temp ...Show more