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Scientists have found that the laws of nature permit time travel. The two greatest ideas in 20th Century physics - general relativity and quantum mechanics - can be applied to demonstrate the possibility of time travel. This book explains the concepts in simple language for begin ...
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Covering the history, key discoveries, inventions and people, this illustrated science encyclopedia reveals the story of scientific progress from the invention of the wheel to 21st-century climate solutions, including coverage from ancient Greek geometry and quantum physics to th ...
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A brilliant and imaginative book for 10 to 12 year olds which paints a fascinating picture of the comparative scale of phenomena in our world, from the vast to the infinitesimal. Ages 10+.
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What evolutionary advantages does sexual reproduction possible confer? This book explores many of sex's surprising oddities, such as, if it weren't for the two sexes, we'd all be riddled with disease. This title is the revised and updated edition of the authors' The Redundant Ma ...
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Tells the story of the people who made science and the turbulent times they lived in. This book details famous figures such as Copernicus, Darwin, Andreas Vesalius, Galileo, Newton, Gregor Mendel and Louis Agassiz.
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But the sensitive way in which systems respond to those basic laws, combined with feedback, can explain why, for example, just one vehicle braking on a motorway can cause a traffic jam; how a tiny genetic mutation or environmental change may make a species develop in a wholly dif ...
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Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague, and fire. A series of meetings of natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a method of thinking based on proof and experiment. This is account of this unparalleled time of discovery explores the i ...
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Navigates the frontiers of scientific discovery to tell us what we really know about the history of the universe. The author describes how the universe began, what the early universe looked like, how its structure developed, and what emerged to hold it all together. He explains h ...
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Jim Lovelock is an iconic figure in British science, a prophet whose prophecies are coming true. He is best known as the 'father' of Gaia theory, which is established as the most useful way of understanding the dramatic changes happening to the environment of the Earth. This biog ...
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