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30-Second Physics The 50 Most Fundamental Concepts in Physics by Brian Clegg
$19.98 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Big Data: How the Information Revolution is Transforming Our Lives by Brian Clegg
$19.98 AUD
Category: Fiction
Is the Brexit vote successful big data politics or the end of democracy? Why do airlines overbook, and why do banks get it wrong so often? How does big data enable Netflix to forecast a hit, CERN to find the Higgs boson and medics to discover if red wine really is good for you? And how are companies usi ...Show more
Biographic - Einstein - Great Lives in Graphic Form by Brian CLEGG
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | 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: Biographies | 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
Conundrum - Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge! by Brian Clegg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
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
Dark Matter and Dark Energy by Brian Clegg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Astronomy | Series: Hot Science Ser.
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has everfaced. Since the 1970s,astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them toaccount for the way they spin ar ...Show more
Essential Science: The Only Science Book You Will Ever Need by Brian Clegg
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
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 Many Moons Does the Earth Have?: The Ultimate Science Quiz Book by Brian Clegg
$16.98 AUD
Category: Fiction
Why did Uuq become Fl? Why is the sky blue? Why is the sky black? What is spaghettification? There's a problem with the typical pub quiz. It always features far too much sport, 1980s pop and celebrity gossip - and not nearly enough science. How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? is the ultimate solution. T ...Show more
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window by Brian Clegg
$9.99 AUD
$19.99 (50% off)
Category: Popular Science
The perfect companion to any flight - a guide to the science on view from your window seat. There are few times when science is so immediate as when you're in a plane. Your life is in the hands of the scientists and engineers who enable tons of metal and plastic to hurtle through the sky at hundreds of ...Show more
Quantum Computing - The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution by Brian Clegg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Information Technology
The ultimate non-technical guide to the fast-developing world of quantum computing.