<p>Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe [Hardcover] Chown, Marcus</p>

Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide To The Universe

Science & Math

MARCUS CHOWN

Physics

Faber and Faber

Felicity Frobisher and the Three-headed Aldebaran Dust Devil

Literature & Fiction

Faber Childrens

We Need to Talk About Kelvin

Astronomy & Space Science

Faber&Faber

Taking a cue from William Blake, Marcus Chown, cosmology consultant for New Scientist, shows how we can 'see a world in a grain of sand'. In this book he chooses familiar features of the mundane world - your reflection in a window, the heat of the sun on your face, how a cause always precedes an effect - and draws on cutting-edge science to explain how they reveal profound truths about the ultimate nature of reality. Short-listed for the 2010 Royal Society Science Book Prize. Slightly off-mint.

Mathematics

Faber and Faber Ltd.

Afterglow of Creation: Decoding the message from the beginning of time

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, printed in full colour, richly detailed and accurately based on real scientific data. A perfect gift for anyone with an interest in astronomy, The Solar System allows the imagination to roam free from Mercury to Pluto and beyond.

Solar System

<p>Why do we have sex? What is money? Does time exist? In this lucid, witty and hugely entertaining book, the bestselling author of We Need to Talk about Kelvin and Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You applies his deep understanding of complex systems to the mysteries of life, the universe and everything - from evolution to electricity, from the human brain to the cosmos. In an age of information overload, it offers a painless crash course in 21st-century existence.</p>

What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff

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 brilliantly informative. Not a word is wasted. The reader is not patronized and learns something on every page. If only all science writing could be so precise and so economical. Only science writers of a very high calibre could achieve such compression. Marcus Chown - "the finest cosmology writer of our day" (Matt Ridley) - has known the Dutch writer Govert Schilling for twenty years. Schilling pioneered this very swift form of explanation in a Dutch newspaper, and suggested to Chown that they collaborate on bringing it to a wider audience. "Tweeting the Universe" is unlike any other science book.

Tweeting the Universe: Very Short Courses on Very Big Ideas. Marcus Chown, Govert Schilling

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-03-07 Pages: 336 Language: English Publisher: Faber Faber 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 brilliantly informative. Not a word is wasted. The reader is not patronized and learns something on every page. If only all science writing could be so precise and so economical.Only science writers of a very high calibre could achieve such compression Marcus Chown -. the finest cosmology writer of our day (Matt Ridley) -. has known the Dutch writer Govert Schilling for twenty years Schilling pioneered this very swift form of explanation in a Dutch newspaper. and suggested to Chown that they co...

Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas

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Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide To The Universe

Felicity Frobisher and the Three-headed Aldebaran Dust Devil

We Need to Talk About Kelvin

We Need to Talk About Kelvin

Afterglow of Creation: Decoding the message from the beginning of time

Solar System

What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff

What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff

Tweeting the Universe: Very Short Courses on Very Big Ideas. Marcus Chown, Govert Schilling

Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas