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Inflight Science - A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window by Brian Clegg
$28.99 NZD
$36.99 (21% off)
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good-very good
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window by Brian Clegg
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The perfect companion to any flight - a guide to the science on view from your window seat. There are few times when science is so immediate as when you're in a plane. Your life is in the hands of the scientists and engineers who enable tons of metal and plastic to hurtle through the sky at hundreds of ...Show more
Light Years: The Extraordinary Story of Mankind's Fascination with Light by Brian Clegg
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
This is the story of light and the people who were determined to unlock the secrets of one of the greatest puzzles of the Universe. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg recounts how civilisations from the Ancient Egyptians to the Mayans understood light spiritually, and looks at the first scientific gra ...Show more
Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon - How James Clerk Maxwell Unravelled the Mysteries of Electromagnetism and Matter by Brian Clegg
$36.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. But ask a physicist and there's no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list. Maxwell, an unassuming Victorian Scotsman, explained how we perceive colour. He uncovered the way gases ...Show more
Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon: The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell by Brian Clegg
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Asked to name a great physicist, most people would mention Newton or Einstein, Feynman or Hawking. But ask a physicist and there's no doubt that James Clerk Maxwell will be near the top of the list. Maxwell, an unassuming Victorian Scotsman, explained how we perceive colour. He uncovered the way gases ...Show more
Quantum Computing - The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution by Brian Clegg
$22.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The ultimate non-technical guide to the fast-developing world of quantum computing.
Science for Life: A Manual for Better Living by Brian Clegg
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Changed Everyday Life by Brian Clegg
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. Physics informs our understanding of how the world works - but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to u ...Show more
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life by Brian Clegg
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet.
The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives by Brian Clegg
$36.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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
What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You by Brian Clegg
$36.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The popular science equivalent of the TV show Who Do You Think You Are?