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Are Numbers Real? The Uncanny Relationships Between Maths and the Physical World by Brian Clegg
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them? Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own, occupyi ...Show more
Conundrum - Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge! by Brian Clegg
$23.00 NZD
Category: Children's activity
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
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | 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
Ecologic : The Truth and Lies of Green Economics by Brian Clegg
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Looking after 'The Environment' should be straightforward - no one wants to destroy the world. And yet in every 'green' area, we are either failing to take the essential steps to prevent destruction of the planet or are being deceived - often by ourselves. By using the scalpel of eco-logic, it is possib ...Show more
Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe by Brian Clegg
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Hot Science
Until then, investigation of the universe had depended on electromagnetic radiation: visible light, radio, X-rays and the rest. But gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of space and time - are unrelenting, passing through barriers that stop light dead.At the two 4-kilometre long LIGO observatorie ...Show more
Gravity: Why what goes up must come down by Brian Clegg
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
How Many Moons Does the Earth Have?: The Ultimate Science Quiz Book by Brian Clegg
$19.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small Has Transformed Our Lives by Brian Clegg
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
Science for Life: A Manual for Better Living by Brian Clegg
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
In Science for Life acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg cuts through the vested interests and confusing contradictory statements that litter the media and the internet, to give a clear picture of what science is telling us right now about changing our lives for the better. Discover the much-advertised ...Show more
The Graphene Revolution - The Weird Science of the Ultra-Thin by Brian Clegg
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Hot Science Ser.
Welcome to the wonderful world of graphene, the thinnest substance known to science. In 2003, Russian physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov found a way to produce graphene - the thinnest substance in the world - by using sticky tape to separate an atom-thick layer from a block of graphite. T ...Show more
The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives by Brian Clegg
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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