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Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book by Marcus Chown
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
Never-Ending Days of Being Dead - Out Of Print by Marcus Chown
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Learn how the big bang may have been spawned by a collision between 'island universes'; how a single remarkable number contains the answer to every question we could ever ask; how the most widely accepted theory of the universe's origin suggests that Elvis never died; and how a computer program a mere f ...Show more
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You : A Guide to the Universe by Marcus Chown
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general theory of relativity. Together, they explain virtually everything about the world we live in. But, almost a century after their advent, most people haven't the slightest clue what either is about. Did you know that ...Show more
The Never-ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science by Marcus Chown
$24.99 AUD
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
$39.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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
Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas by Marcus Chown & Govert Schilling
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 by Marcus Chown
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
A hugely accessible exploration of the science of the everyday world around us. 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 temp ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe by Marcus Chown
$22.99 AUD
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
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