The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers... Zobraziť viac
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It's lucky you're here. But for a series of choices, accidents and coincidences - any of which could have gone otherwise - your life would have been very different... Zobraziť viac
Space is very big. It's full of planets, comets, stars and asteroids. People have gone into Space and they have visited the moon! Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, ... Zobraziť viac
Take your toddler on a pop-up space rocket adventure, and fly to the Moon in this lift-the-flap baby book with pictures that pop off the page! This imaginative pop-up peekaboo book follows two little astronauts, Annabelle and Arthur, ... Zobraziť viac
From the Big Bang to the future of our planet, The Little Book of Big History divides history into manageable but comprehensive time frames, encompassing the cosmos, the stars, life and everything in between... Zobraziť viac
This classic textbook by J. P. Den Hartog, retired professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, reflects the author's unique ability to combine the scholarly insight of a distinguished scientist with the practical, problem-solving orientation ... Zobraziť viac
How do magnets generate electricity? What is antimatter? Is time travel possible? Discover the answers to these and over 90 other big questions that explore the most important laws, theories, and breakthrough moments in our understanding of... Zobraziť viac
The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations... Zobraziť viac
One of the greatest challenges facing atmospheric science instructors is helping students link theoretical and mathematical concepts to the real atmosphere. The past decade has been characterized by remarkable advances in meteorological observation... Zobraziť viac
The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant leap for mankind' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some ... Zobraziť viac
Twenty years ago, the search for planets outside the Solar System was a job restricted to science-fiction writers. Now it's one of the fastest-growing fields in astronomy with thousands of exoplanets discovered to date, and the number is rising fast. Thes Zobraziť viac
Explore the world of astronomy with key quotes and bold graphics to illustrate over 100 of the universe's biggest ideas. The... Zobraziť viac
Life. The Universe. Everything. The human race has always revealed an insatiable hunger to search "to infinity and beyond".... Zobraziť viac
Allen Lane: The third volume in Leonard Susskind's one-of-a-kind physics series cracks open Einstein's special relativity... Zobraziť viac
Transworld Publishers Ltd: A Brief History of Time has now sold an estimated nine million copies worldwide - something of a... Zobraziť viac
In our small corner of the universe, we know how some matter behaves most of the time and what even less of it looks like,... Zobraziť viac
This is Stephen Hawking's updated, expanded and illustrated edition of his celebrated work which includes the most recent... Zobraziť viac
Human beings, says Lee Smolin, author of The Trouble With Physics, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality and fantasy, confusing our representations of the world with the world itself... Zobraziť viac
When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been travelling, ... Zobraziť viac
