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A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage by Marcus Chown
50.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma: black holes. A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. This can occur when a star approache ...Show more
Never-Ending Days of Being Dead - Out Of Print by Marcus Chown
49.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Learn how the big bang may have been spawned by a collision between 'island universes'; how a single remarkable number contains the answer to every question we could ever ask; how the most widely accepted theory of the universe's origin suggests that Elvis never died; and how a computer program a mere f ...Show more
Solar System Wall Calendar by Marcus Chown
28.00 NZD
Category: Calendars and diaries
Take a yearlong tour around our solar system.Each month in the Solar System calendar explores a new beautiful and fascinating body in our interstellar neighborhood. Based on the best-selling book Solar System and the best-selling iPad app of the same name, Solar System 2015 Calendar is perfect for scien ...Show more
The Never-ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science by Marcus Chown
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
In Chown's most ambitious book to date he sets out to answer some of the most provocative questions of today: Where did we come from? What the hell are we doing here? Is Elvis alive and kicking in another space domain? What's beyond the edge of the Universe? Did aliens build the stars? Can we live forev ...Show more
Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas by Marcus Chown & Govert Schilling
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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
We Need to Talk About Kelvin by Marcus Chown
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A hugely accessible exploration of the science of the everyday world around us. Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there is furnace at a temp ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What everyday things tell us about the universe by Marcus Chown
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there is furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Your TV tells you that the universe had a beginning. ...Show more
What a Wonderful World: Life, the Universe and Everything in a Nutshell by Marcus Chown
29.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-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
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