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Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Can you really lose weight by consuming nothing but ice cream and beer? How does the latest blockbuster movie get squeezed onto a disk, and how do they make the pictures seem 3D? How much does a selfie weigh? What's the science behind forensic investigations, body scans, and the dating of ancient artefacts? The Physics Behind... takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the scientific principles that that make the modern world work. Could...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Did you know that every time you watch a baseball game, you are watching some great examples of physics in action? Why exactly does the amount of spin on a pitch determine how far a ball can be hit? And what's the scientific reason that using pine tar on the bat makes it easier to grip? Learn all about the science behind America's favorite pastime in this fact-fil led Level 3 Ready-to-Read!.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate. 'My friend and I were arguing about what would happen if a bullet got struck by lightning, and we agreed that you should resolve...
Publisher
Little Gestalten, an imprint of Die Gestalten Verlag GmbH & Co KG
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that a colossal squid's eyeball is bigger than a basketball, or that your sneeze shoots out faster than a hurricane? 'How big is big? How far is far? All around me' moves through the world to find creative ways of explaining size, distance, weight, and speed to help introduce measurements to young children."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Learn the science behind the fun of amusement parks in this nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series about the science of fun stuff! Did you know that a rollercoaster does not need an engine or power source of its own? And how exactly does a bumper car go without gas?
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the English physicist whose work on the laws of motion and gravity and invention of calculus had great influence on the understanding of the physical nature of the universe.
12) The Grand Design
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A whirlwind tour of fundamental physics and cosmology.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Fascinating . . . a wealth of ideas [that] leave us with a clearer understanding of modern physics in all its invigorating complexity.”—Los Angeles Times
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the...
“Fascinating . . . a wealth of ideas [that] leave us with a clearer understanding of modern physics in all its invigorating complexity.”—Los Angeles Times
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander
“One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York Times Book Review
This playful,...
“One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York Times Book Review
This playful,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The national bestselling author of The God Equation traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies.
“Amazing … Kaku is in smooth perfect control of it the entire time.” —The Christian Science Monitor
We are entering...
“Amazing … Kaku is in smooth perfect control of it the entire time.” —The Christian Science Monitor
We are entering...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times Bestseller | Wall Street Journal Bestseller | Publishers Weekly Bestseller | Publishers Marketplace 2020 Buzz Book | Amazon Best Book of the Year | Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
"Provocative and thrilling ... Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the unexpected."
—Alan Lightman, New York Times bestselling author of Einstein's
...17) ABCs of physics
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It only takes a small spark to ignite a child's mind! The ABCs of Physics introduces babies (and grownups!) to a new physics concept for every letter of the alphabet--all the way from atom to zero-point energy. With a tongue-in-cheek approach that adults will love, this installment of the Baby University board book series is the perfect way to introduce basic concepts to even the youngest physicists"--
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Isaac Asimov concludes that we are not alone! Using the most up-to-date astronomical research as the backdrop for speculation, Asimov confronts the possibilities of other-worldly life head-on in Extraterrestrial Civilizations.
In what will surely become one of the most provocative books ever written on the possibilities of life elsewhere in the universe, the incomparable Isaac Asimov provides chilling, hopeful, and exciting...
In what will surely become one of the most provocative books ever written on the possibilities of life elsewhere in the universe, the incomparable Isaac Asimov provides chilling, hopeful, and exciting...
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