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Afterglow of Creation: Decoding the Message from the Beginning of Time by Marcus Chown
30.00 NZD
Category: Science
Stephen Hawking described it as 'the discovery of the century, if not of all time', yet the scientists who first detected the cosmic radiation that was identified as the afterglow of the big bang had to admit that it was more by accident than intention. At first its discoverers mistook the readings for ...Show more
Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book by Marcus Chown
21.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Ladybird Expert Ser.
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, The Big Bang is an accessible, authoritative, and entertaining introduction to the greatest discovery in the history of science: that the universe has not existed forever but was born. There was a day without a yesterday.Written by award-winning writer and former ...Show more
Breakthrough by Marcus Chown
25.00 NZD
Category: Science
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power. 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever known before? And why is mathematics so good at revealing n ...Show more
Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe by Marcus Chown
23.00 NZD
Category: Science
Bestselling author Marcus Chown explores some of the most profound and important science about us, our world and beyond by examining some astonishing facts that reveal the vast complexities of the universe.There is much about our world that seems to make perfect sense, and important scientific breakthro ...Show more
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe by Marcus Chown
12.50 NZD
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
Solar System: A Visual Exploration of the Planets, Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies That Orbit Our Sun by Marcus Chown
40.00 NZD
Category: Science
Never before have the wonders of our solar system been so immediately accessible to readers of all ages. This beautiful book presents a new and fascinating way to experience our planetary neighborhood. With hundreds of stunning photographs and graphics, as well as fascinating text by the award-winning w ...Show more
The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything by Marcus Chown
28.00 NZD
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 Never-ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science by Marcus Chown
30.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
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 Solar System - A visual exploration of the planets, moons, and other heavenly bodies that orbit our sun by Marcus Chown
50.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
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
30.00 NZD
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: What everyday things tell us about the universe by Marcus Chown
29.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
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 temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Your TV tells you that the universe had a beginning. ...Show more
What a Wonderful World: Life, the Universe and Everything in a Nutshell by Marcus Chown
29.00 NZD
Category: Science
Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather than nothing? In ...Show more