(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9780008333409
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 28th October 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A Waterstones Best Book of 2020
The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands of years.
(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781804991183
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2023
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9780141031613
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Jim Lovelock is an iconic figure in British science, a prophet whose prophecies are coming true. He is best known as the 'father' of Gaia theory, which is established as the most useful way of understanding the dramatic changes happening to the environment of the Earth. This biography reveals his independent, original and inspiring life.
(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9780008220617
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9780141015705
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague, and fire. A series of meetings of natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a method of thinking based on proof and experiment. This is account of this unparalleled time of discovery explores the impact of the Royal Society.
(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781804993583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2025
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9780008145606
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond.
(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9780552777599
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2013
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Erwin Schrdinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his thought experiment of a cat in a box, both alive and dead at the same time, which revealed the seemingly paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics.
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By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781857994025
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1996
UK Publication Date: 5th February 1996
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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An exploration of the nature of light.
(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9780980296563
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: UWA Publishing
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A book about the solar system that offers an appreciation of our place in the cosmos. From straightforward facts such as, How far away are stars and What did Galileo see through his telescope to broader questions such as, Is there an edge to the universe and How did the universe begin, it is suitable for various levels of interest.
(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9780552779319
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Pioneering physicists are on the brink of unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences and common sense ever could. This title explains how quantum theory developed to make quantum computers work in practice as well as in principle.
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By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781785781087
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Icon Books
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Popular science master John Gribbin tackles the very biggest question modern science has to answer.
(Hardback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781785787355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2021
Publisher: Icon Books
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A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science.
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By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781785789793
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Icon Books
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A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science.
(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781785780486
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Icon Books
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Einstein's Masterwork puts Einstein's General Theory of Relativity in the context of his life and work, and shows why his greatest year was indeed 1915.
(Hardback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781785788826
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Icon Books
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A scintillating collection of short essays that really does cover 'life, the Universe, and everything'.
(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781785788833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2023
Publisher: Icon Books
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(Hardback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781785789175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Icon Books
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Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible
(Hardback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781848310346
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Icon Books
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A new, popular biography of Buddy Holly, published on the 50th anniversary of his tragic death.
(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781785783722
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Icon Books
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A new edition of the acclaimed biography of the Nobel prize-winner published for the 100th anniversary of Feynman's birth.
(Hardback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781785786563
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Icon Books
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The seven fundamental - and surprising - scientific truths of our existence.
(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781785788581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2022
Publisher: Icon Books
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John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of seven fundamental scientific truths that underpin our very existence.
(Paperback)
By: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781785787348
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: Icon Books
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A short guide to the six theories that try to explain the wild world of the quantum.
