Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window (PAPERBACK)

There are few times that science is so immediate as when you're in a plane. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg shows how you stay up there – but that’s only the beginning. Inflight Science explains the ever-changing view, whether it’s crop circles or clouds, mountains or river deltas, and describes easy-to-do experiments, from showing how a wing provides lift to calculating t…

Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window (EPUB)

There are few times that science is so immediate as when you're in a plane. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg shows how you stay up there – but that’s only the beginning. Inflight Science explains the ever-changing view, whether it’s crop circles or clouds, mountains or river deltas, and describes easy-to-do experiments, from showing how a wing provides lift to calculating t…

Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window (EBOOK:PDF)

The perfect companion to any flight – a guide to the science on view from your window seat. There are few times when science is as immediate as when you’re in a plane. Your life is in the hands of the scientists and engineers who enable tons of metal and plastic to hurtle through the sky at hundreds of miles an hour. Inflight Science shows how you stay alive up there – bu…

Inflight Science: A Guide to Your World Through Your Airplane Window (PAPERBACK)

  ‘Fitting into that publishing niche somewhere between hard science and Schott’s Miscellany that was so successfully exploited by books such as The Cloudspotter’s Guide’ The Times ‘Catches the current wave of Brian Cox-approved popular science … for those who are interested in the way things work, and have seen the films on offer on board, it’s a …

The Universe Inside You: The Extreme Science of the Human Body from Quantum Physics to the Mysteries of the Human Brain

Fascinating facts and mind-boggling science of the human body. Built from the debris of exploding stars that floated through space for billions of years, home to a zoo of tiny aliens, and controlled by a brain with more possible connections than there are atoms in the universe, the human body is the most incredible thing in existence. In the sequel to his bestselling Inflight Science, Brian Cleg…

Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide (PAPERBACK)

Compact INTRODUCING guide to a boundlessly intriguing topic The Ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. A German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers. How will you fare? Brian Clegg and Oliver Pugh’s brilliant graphic introduction to Infinity is the uni…

The Universe Inside You: The Extreme Science of the Human Body from Quantum Physics to the Mysteries of the Human Brain (PAPERBACK)

Fascinating facts and mind-boggling science of the human body.Built from the debris of exploding stars that floated through space for billions of years, home to a zoo of tiny aliens, and controlled by a brain with more possible connections than there are atoms in the universe, the human body is the most incredible thing in existence.In the sequel to his bestselling Inflight Science, Brian Clegg ex…

Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe (PAPERBACK)

For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine – with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn’t like that. But only, they argued, because we didn’t have enough data to be certain.Then the cracks began to appear. It proved impossible to predict exactly how three planets orbiting each other would move. Meteo…