The science books across history which helped the spread and development of modern scientific knowledge are depicted in this detailed book of cover art, featuring inked illustrations on vellum, engraved frontispieces and antique fonts.
The story of physicist's physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who set out the key thinking on our perception of light and colour, electricity and magnetism, and left subsequent generations the enduring mystery of 'Maxwell's Demon'.
With dark matter and dark energy making up ninety-five percent of reality, this addition to the "Hot Science" series looks at the new research into the functionality of invisible material in relation to stars and planets. Brian Clegg also wrote "Dice World" and "A Brief History Of Infinity".
The ultimate trial of knowledge and cunning, Conundrum features 200 cryptic puzzles and ciphers. The solutions link throughout the book, so readers need to solve them all to get to the final round.
Graphene's status as the thinnest substance known to science, as identified following its initial production by 2003 Nobel winners Geim and Novoselov, carries exciting implications for the development of effective new materials, with the graphene revolution speculated on here.
A roadmap from here to there when you don't know where there is.Creativity isn't simply important to the manager of the future, it's essential. Innovation, differentiation and "out of the box" thinking are the ultimate sources of commercial advantage in our age of ultra-competitiveness. And like every other essential business skill, creativity can be developed.Imagination Engineering offers a proven and highly successful formula for developing...
The fifty key theories and developments in the science of energy and the pioneers behind them are subject to explanations that can be read in half a minute in this addition to the "30-Second" series.
After five decades of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the first time in September 2015, changing astronomy forever. This is a compelling story of human technical endeavour and a new, powerful path to understand the goings on of the universe.