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Biomimetics: How Lessons from Nature can Transform Technology by Brian Clegg
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Hot Science Ser.
An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind.
Game Theory: Understanding the Mathematics of Life by Brian Clegg
$22.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behaviour. Only much later did he realise that Asimov's 'psychohistory' had a real-world equivalent: game theory. Or ...Show more
How It All Works - All Scientific Laws and Phenomena Illustrated and Demonstrated by Adam Dant; Brian Clegg
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The Universe is inconceivably complex. Its component parts though follow a set of unbreakable laws that have somehow been coded into their very fabric since the beginning of time. These laws play out in different ways at different scales, giving rise to the familiar phenomena of everyday life - as well ...Show more
Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science by Brian Clegg
$27.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
You may well be familiar with the fact that lightning, contrary to the popular saying, often strikes the same place twice. But this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what many of us wrongly believe about the way the world works. Whether it's word of mouth, myths you've read about online, ...Show more
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Changed Everyday Life by Brian Clegg
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. Physics informs our understanding of how the world works - but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to u ...Show more
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life by Brian Clegg
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet.
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