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10 Short Lessons in Time Travel by Brian Clegg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy | 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy | 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy | 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 Physics The 50 Most Fundamental Concepts in Physics by Brian Clegg
$19.98 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy | 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
Biographic - Einstein - Great Lives in Graphic Form by Brian CLEGG
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
Biographic Tesla: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Brian CLEGG
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy | 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sport
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
Essential Science: The Only Science Book You Will Ever Need by Brian Clegg
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
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
Game Theory: Understanding the Mathematics of Life by Brian Clegg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
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
How It All Works - All Scientific Laws and Phenomena Illustrated and Demonstrated by Adam Dant; Brian Clegg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Reference
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
Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon - How James Clerk Maxwell Unravelled the Mysteries of Electromagnetism and Matter by Brian Clegg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. But ask a physicist and there's no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list. Maxwell, an unassuming Victorian Scotsman, explained how we perceive colour. He uncovered the way gases ...Show more