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The Last Word 2 by New Scientist
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
Why do boomerangs come back? Why does grilled cheese go stringy? This paperback brings you more questions and answers from The New Scientist's popular column.
The Quantum World - The Disturbing Theory at the Heart of Reality by New Scientist
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Ex Ser.
Just how real is reality, anyway?Forget everything you thought you knew about reality.The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are one and the same, and objects change their behavior according to whether ...Show more
This Book Could Save Your Life - The Science of Living Longer Better by New Scientist; Graham Lawton
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Category: Recipe Books | Reading Level: very good
You are what you eat. Food and diet have an enormous influence on your health and well-being, but eating the right amount of the right things - and not too much of the wrong things - isn't easy. But, as in most walks of life, knowledge is power. This book will empower you to eat healthily, lose weight, ...Show more
This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home by New Scientist
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Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
The Earth as you've never seen it before.The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special, but somehow ...Show more
Where the Universe Came From - How Einstein's Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos by New Scientist
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Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Ex Ser.
How did it all begin? Where is it all going?WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. He overturned centurie ...Show more
Why Can't Elephants Jump? And 113 More Science Puzzles Answered by New Scientist
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Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
What's the storage capacity of the human brain in gigabytes? What's the farthest point on land from the sea? Why is frozen milk yellow? And why do flamingos stand on one leg? "Why Can't Elephants Jump?" is the latest (and the fourth) compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the "Last Word" co ...Show more
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions by NEW SCIENTIST
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Category: Science
What time is it at the North Pole? Should you pickle your conkers? Why does my aubergine look like Elvis? Plus 111 other questions answered. "Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?" is the latest compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the "Last Word" column of "New Scientist", the world's best-se ...Show more
Why the Universe Exists: How particle physics unlocks the secrets of everything by New Scientist
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Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
Peer deep into the heart of existence and find out why particle chaos was the making of matter.WHY IS THERE ALWAYS SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING? As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is ...Show more