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Build Your Own Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel by Brian Clegg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Build Your Own Time Machine, acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes inspiration from his childhood favourites, Doctor Who and H.G. Wells, to explain the nature of time. He explores the amazing possibilities of quantum entanglement, superluminal speeds, neutron star cylinders and wormholes in spac ...Show more
Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe by Brian Clegg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine - with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn't like that. But only, they argued, because we didn't have enough data to be certain. Then the cracks began to appear. It proved impossible ...Show more
Gravity: Why what goes up must come down by Brian Clegg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Of the four forces that control the universe gravity may be the most obvious, but it is also the most mysterious. Newton managed to predict the force of gravity, but couldn t explain how it worked at a distance. Then Einstein recognised that gravity and acceleration are interchangeable to devise his min ...Show more
Inflight Science - A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window by Brian Clegg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Science | Reading Level: good-very good
Introducing Graphic Guide - More Great Theories of Science by Brian Clegg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Introducing...
Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's most thrilling ideas. Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired ...Show more
Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide by Brian Clegg, Oliver Pugh
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Introducing...
Compact INTRODUCING guide to a boundlessly intriguing topic. The Ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. A German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers. How will you ...Show more
The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives by Brian Clegg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The stone age, the iron age, the steam and electrical ages all saw the reach of humankind transformed by new technology. Now we are living in the quantum age, a revolution in everyday life led by our understanding of the very, very small. Today, technologies based on quantum physics account for 30 per c ...Show more
The Universe Inside You: The Extreme Science of the Human Body from Quantum Theory to the Mysteries of the Brain by Brian Clegg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fascinating facts and mind-boggling science of the human body. Built from the debris of exploding stars that floated through space for billions of years, home to a zoo of tiny aliens, and controlled by a brain with more possible connections than there are atoms in the universe, the human body is the mo ...Show more
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