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Big Numbers - A mind-expanding trip to infinity and back by Mary Gribbin
24.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
⢠How big is infinityb⢠How small is an electron>⢠When will the Sun destroy the Earth ⢠How fast is a nerve impulse in your brainh⢠Why canâÂÂt you see inside a black holes⢠WhatâÂÂs the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earthe⢠WhatâÂÂs the furthest yo ...Show more
Fitzroy by John and Mary Gribbin
34.99 NZD
37.95 (7% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Admiral FitzRoy was descended from the illegitimate son of King Charles II and made his name as a captain on the HMS Beagle. It was for his second voyage on the ship (1832-36) that he decided to ask Charles Darwin to accompany him, and it was during this time that Darwin began to develop the ideas that ...Show more
Flower Hunters by Mary Gribbin
35.00 NZD
Category: History
The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century, and helped establish the new science of botany. For these adventurers, the search for new, und ...Show more
How Far Is Up? Measuring the Size of the Universe by Mary Gribbin
32.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Award-winners Mary and John Gribbin unravel the history of modern astronomy. How far is it to the edge of the Universe? It is less than eighty years since astronomers began to realise that even the distances to the stars are tiny steps on a truly cosmic scale, and that the Milky Way Galaxy in which we l ...Show more
Ice Age by John Gribbin; Mary Gribbin
29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On 24th June, 1837 Louis Agassiz stunned the learned members of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences by addressing them, in his role as President, not with an anticipated lecture on fossil fishes, but with a passionate presentation on the existence of Ice Ages. No one was convinced. He even dragged the ...Show more
Science : A History in 100 Experiments by Mary Gribbin
59.99 NZD
Category: Science
A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments - epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. The history of science is a fascinating and long one, covering thousands of years of history. The development of scientific experiments involves some of the mo ...Show more
Science of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" by Mary Gribbin
23.99 NZD
26.95 (10% off)
Category: Children Fiction
With an introduction by Philip Pullman. Award-winning science writers Mary and John Gribbin reveal how Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass) is rooted in astonishing scientific truth. Drawing on string theory and spacetime, quantum physics and ch ...Show more
Time Travel for Beginners by Mary & John Gribbin
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
Physicists can't yet build time machines but they know that the laws of physics would allow one to exist. Scientists are investigating the manipulation of potential 'natural' time machines such as black holes, and other possibilities. All of these are discussed - not the detail of the mathematical equat ...Show more
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