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A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science.

A short guide to the six theories that try to explain the wild world of the quantum.

John Gribbin is one of today's greatest writers of popular science and the author of bestselling books, including In Search of Schr¿dinger's Cat, Stardust and Deep Simplicity. He is famous to his many fans for making complex ideas simple, and says that his aim in his writing - much of it done with his wife, Mary Gribbin - is to share with his readers his sense of wonder at the strangeness of the universe. John Gribbin trained as an astrophysic...

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With its comprehensive coverage of hydraulics and hydrology in a non-calculus format, the Fourth Edition of INTRODUCTION TO HYDRAULICS & HYDROLOGY continues the same straightforward, practical approach that has made previous editions so popular. Designed to provide readers with an understanding of the concepts of hydraulics and surface water hydrology as they are used in everyday practice, this edition contains multiple opportunities for pract...

Is our universe just one of many?The most fascinating mysteries in modern physics seem to point us in that direction. As impossible as it seems-that other universes came before ours, float alongside ours, or even mirror ours-the evidence is surprisingly convincing. In his most mind-blowing, sweeping work since Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality, acclaimed science writer and astrophysicist John Gribbin takes readers In Search of t...

A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands of years.

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The seven fundamental - and surprising - scientific truths of our existence.

The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands of years.

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Lo studio e l'osservazione delle galassie è da sempre il nodo centrale del crescente interesse per l'origine del cosmo, e rimane tuttora uno dei temi fondanti dell'astronomia. John Gribbin coinvolge il lettore in un viaggio che dalle osservazioni a occhio nudo degli antichi attraversa la storia dell'invenzione del cannocchiale e del telescopio per arrivare alle ultime frontiere della ricerca, spingendoci fino alla notte dei tempi, alle collisi...

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A new edition of the acclaimed biography of the Nobel prize-winner published for the 100th anniversary of Feynman's birth.

Nella scienza i capolavori sono rari come nelle arti. Per essere tali, in loro la perfezione deve uguagliare la dirompenza. Perché rivoluzionano il mondo, alla lettera. John Gribbin non esita a spendere la parola "capolavoro" per la teoria generale della relatività, che lo stesso Albert Einstein definì "la scoperta più preziosa della mia vita... una teoria di incomparabile bellezza". Quando la elaborò nella forma che conosciamo era trascorso u...

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