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50 Universe Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
Category: Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
For millennia humanity has gazed in wonder at the night sky, tracked the motions of the planets and attempted to explain our place in the Universe. But only in our own time has the true scale, the astonishing variety and the remarkable strangeness of the cosmos come clearly into focus. The pace and soph ...Show more
50 Universe Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
Category: Space | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
In a series of 50 accessible essays, Jo Baker introduces and explains all of the essential concepts, major discoveries and the very latest thinking in astrophysics. From heliocentrism to Newton's theory of optics, the theory of relativity to supermassive black holes, 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: U ...Show more
Earth: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know by Martin Redfern
Category: Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
This latest book in the bestselling '50 Ideas' series is a wonderfully accessible overview of the only place we know of in the universe that is capable of sustaining life. Expert popular science writer Martin Redfern covers all the natural processes of the Earth: climate, ocean currents, air currents, t ...Show more
History of War: 50 Ideas You Really Need To Know by Robin Cross
Category: History | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Human history - from the empires of the ancient world to the superpowers of the 21st century - has been inextricably shaped by conflict and the weapons that have been used to wage it. The technologies that have produced advanced civilizations have also been harnessed to the grim business of warfare. Thi ...Show more
The Future: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know by Richard Watson
Category: Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
What will the world look like in 2020, 2030 or even 2100? How will progress in scientific research affect human life in the areas of health and lifestyle, energy and the environment, politics and conflict, space exploration and even the ultimate questions of existence? This book offers an electrifying t ...Show more
World History: 50 Events You Really Need to Know by Ian Crofton
Category: Australian History | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To remedy this, World History: 50 Key Milestones You Really Need to Know offers brief and stimulating outlines ...Show more