Author : Russell Stannard
Publisher : Faber & Faber Children's Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 2005-04
Category : Quantum theory
ISBN : 9780571226153
Gedanken's eccentric uncle sends her into outer space in a spacecraft to help him conduct a series of experiments regarding the law of relativity as it affects time and space.
Author : Russell Stannard
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : 9780571226146
Book Two in an action-packed adventure series - which also explores the three great physics theories of Albert Einstein!
Author : Russell Stannard
Publisher :
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 1994-01
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780571170661
This is the final volume in the trilogy for young readers investigating the three great physics explorations of Albert Einstein. Uncle Albert's niece Gedanken drinks from a magic bottle and shrinks into the tiny world of quarks and electrons where she confronts the riddle of the quantum.
Author : Russell Stannard
Publisher :
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780571194360
'Where is the centre of the universe?' 'Why is water wet?' 'What are atoms made of?' 'Will the sun ever blow up?' Fresh from Uncle Albert's postbag here are 100 science questions from children on subjects including Black Holes, atoms, clouds, colour and volcanoes.
Author : David Downing
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781403448705
This book examines the historical forces that led to the development of the system of apartheid, what life was like under the system for both blacks and whites, and the efforts that caused the end of this system.
Author : Russell Stannard
Publisher :
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Children's questions and answers
ISBN : 9780571175086
In this book, Russell Stannard replies to 60 letters from children asking about science and the nature of the universe. Questions include: How many space aliens are there?; Why doesn't God fall out of the sky?; and Do animals go to heaven?
Author : Russell Stannard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2008-07-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0199236224
Einstein's theory of relativity shattered the world of physics - replacing Newtonian ideas of space and time with bizarre and counterintuitive conclusions: a world of slowing clocks and stretched space, black holes and curved space-time. This Very Short Introduction explores and explains the theory in an accessible and understandable way.
Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307827860
From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own, with the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood steeped in poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his mother. "A work of genius." —The New Yorker Published thirty-five years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the car accident that killed Camus, The First Man is the brilliant consummation of the life and work of one of the 20th century's greatest novelists. Translated from the French by David Hapgood. "The First Man is perhaps the most honest book Camus ever wrote, and the most sensual...Camus is...writing at the depth of his powers...It is "Fascinating...The First Man helps put all of Camus's work into a clearer perspective and brings into relief what separates him from the more militant literary personalities of his day...Camus's voice has never been more personal." —The New York Times Book Review
Author : Brian Greene
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307428532
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes “an astonishing ride” through the universe (The New York Times) that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. From Newton’s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein’s fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics’ entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world.
Author : John Himmelman
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1250230179
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! In John Himmelman's early chapter book series, Albert Hopper is a frog—and a science hero! He seeks to explore the world and beyond, generating laughs and imparting STEM wisdom as he goes. Albert Hopper, Science Hero is on a mission: to travel to the center of the earth! With his wormlike ship Wiggles and the help of his niece and nephew, trusty Junior Science Heroes Polly and Tad, Hopper is ready to go where no frog has gone before. Thick layers of rock and rubble, tunnels of lava, and temperatures of 6,000 degrees stand between our heroes and their prize. Will they make it? Find out in this funny and informative adventure.
