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An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics
In the ultimate guide to the ultimate mystery--the quantum world--an award-winning scientist and a master of popular science writing explains recent b...
A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scie...
Carl Linnaeus - Joseph Banks - Francis Masson - Carl Peter Thunberg - David Douglas - William Lobb - Thomas Lobb - Robert Fortune - Marianne North - R...
How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe
"Gribbin takes us through the history of cosmological discoveries, focusing in particular on the seventy years since the Big Bang model of the origin ...
This title begins with Galileo and takes the reader through to the scientific developments of string theory. It is an accessible narrative history, fo...
We once had to abandon the idea of earth being at the centre of the universe. Now, we need to confront an even more profound possibility: the universe...
Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life
'Gribbin takes us through the basics with his customary talent for accessibility and clarity' Sunday Times The world around us can be a complex, confu...
No one is more successful than this author when it comes to making the cutting edge of physics more accessible to a broad lay audience. In Schrodinger...
The Story of a Revolution
From the bestselling author of Science: A History comes the enthralling story of a revolution that shook the world. Seventeenth-century England was ra...
During the middle and late 1960s, concern about the way the world might be going began to move out of the arena of academic debate amongst specialists...
Parallel Worlds, Hidden Dimensions, and the Ultimate Quest for the Frontiers of Reality
Critical acclaim for John Gribbin "The master of popular science." —Sunday Times (London) "Gribbin explains things very well indeed, and there's not...
Because of the length of time that a voyage takes, knowledge of the purpose and nature of the universe often becomes lost to the succeeding generation...
Dramatic Discoveries that Challenge Our Understanding of Physical Reality
In this sweeping survey, acclaimed science writers Paul Davies and John Gribbin provide a complete overview of advances in the study of physics that h...
Quantam Physics And Reality
Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of ...
A Life in Science
Studie over het leven en de theorieën van de natuurkundige (1879-1955)...
COMPANION TO THE COSMOS is the brilliant science populariser and an award-winning writer, John Gribbin tells us everything we want to know about the u...
Hooke, Halley, & the Birth of Science
The authors of Ice Age “present a well-documented argument that [Newton] owed more to the ideas of others than he admitted” (Kirkus Reviews). Robe...
Time travel has been a common feature in popular science fiction, but with today's understanding of black holes, it could possibly be a reality. Many ...
The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything
The bestselling author of The Scientists presents “alively and accessible look at how astronomers determined the age of our universe” (Publishers ...
Collection of 17 essays on astronomy and cosmology by the astrophysicist turned Nature and New Scientist editor....
"Junior Chicken and Alexis, the Quantum Cat, explain the extraordinary concepts covered by Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time in terms that "ev...
Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–from biology to physics,...
Looks at the comparative scale of phenomena in our world, from the vast to the infinitesimal, covering maths, physics, chemistry, biology and technolo...
One hundred years on from his birth, and 30 since his death, Richard Feynman's discoveries in modern physics are still thoroughly relevant. Magnificen...
The Origins of Man and the Universe
Genesis is history on its grandest scale, a brilliantly conceived and achieved chronicle of the evolution of man and the cosmos that adds new and prov...
Continuing their successful series of biographies of famous scientists, the authors present a lucid and accessible account of Darwin's life and work. ...
Particle Physics from A-Z
Q is for Quantum presents a history of the study of the quantum world. Going back to the time of the ancient Greeks, John Gribbin offers a guide to th...
And The Search For Reality
Accessible exploration of one of the most exciting areas of scientific inquiry - the nature of light. Following on from his bestseller, SCHRODINGER'S ...
This work is about the inner structure of everything, a quest which, like the quest for an understanding of the universe at large, goes back to the An...
Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which the c...
Drawing on string theory and space-time, quantum physics and chaos theory, award-winning science authors Mary and John Gribbin reveal how Pullman's 'H...
And Other Curious Phenomena of the Universe
"Is it true that the Sun is shrinking at such a rate that our Earth will disappear within a hundred thousand years? What happened to the Sun's neutrin...
The quantum world is the world of the very small - the micro-world ('quantum' means the smallest component of a system or the smallest change a system...
The Mystery of the Quantum World
“An elegant and accessible” investigation of quantum mechanics—“highly recommended” for students of the sciences, sci-fi fans, and anyone in...
"John Gribbin tells the stories of the people who have made science, and of the times in which they lived and worked. He begins with Copernicus, durin...
88 Great Ideas in Science
"How big is infinity? How small is an electron? When will the Sun destroy the Earth? How fast is a nerve impulse in your brain? Why can't you see insi...
'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . . . Its combination of erudition, war...
Supernovae and Life-- the Cosmic Connection
The Gribbins relate the developments in 20th-century astronomy that have led to the shattering realization that all life is made of stardust scattered...