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Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe by Marcus Chown
$22.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction
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
The Photographic Card Deck of the Solar System: 126 Cards Featuring Stories, Scientific Date, and Big Beautiful Photographs of All the Planets, Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies That Orbit Our Sun by Marcus Chown
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cooking
The Photographic Card Deck of the Solar System includes 126, 127 x 127mm cards. An individual planet, moon, asteroid is featured on each card. Additional cards explain scientific phenomenon such as the creation of the solar system, gravitation dead zones, the movement of planets, the possibility of life ...Show more
Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas by Marcus Chown
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
What a Wonderful World: Life, the Universe and Everything in a Nutshell by Marcus Chown
$22.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction
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
What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff by Marcus Chown
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
What a Wonderful World - One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff by Marcus Chown
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
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
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