The Global Warming Survival Kit: The Must-have Guide to Overcoming Extreme Weather, Power Cuts, Food

Science & Math

BRIAN CLEGG

Earth Sciences

DOUBLEDAY

Although HG Wellss Victorian time machine would not have worked, there is no law of physics that prevents travel through the fourth dimension. Brian Clegg combines his enthusiasm for science fiction with his insights as a writer on real science to explore ways in which time travel could theoretically be achieved. He also traces the development of our modern understanding of time, from Einsteins first daydreams about the speed of light to neutrino experiments and the latest theories about wormholes.

Build Your Own Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel

Physics

Gerald Duckworth & Company

Gravity

Mathematics

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these, gravity may the most obvious, but it is also the most mysterious. Newton managed to predict the force of gravity but couldn't explain how it worked at a distance. Then Einstein picked up on the simple premise that gravity and acceleration are interchangeable to devise his mind-bending general relativity, showing how matter warps space and time. Not only did this explain how gravity worked - and how apparently simple gravitation has four separate components - but it predicted everything from black holes to gravity's effect on time. Whether it's the reality of anti-gravity or the unexpected discovery that a ball and a laser beam drop at the same rate, gravity is the force that fascinates.

In Build Your Own Time Machine, acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes inspiration from his childhood favourites, Doctor Who and H.G. Wells, to explain the nature of time. He explores the amazing possibilities of quantum entanglement, superluminal speeds, neutron star cylinders and wormholes in space. How did the theories of one man change the way time is perceived? Why wouldnt H.G. Wellss time machine have worked? And what would we need to do to make a real one?

Build Your Own Time Machine

This is the story of light and the people who were determined to unlock the secrets of one of the greatest puzzles of the Universe. The book recounts spiritual interpretations, from the Ancient Egyptians to the Mayans and looks at the first scientific grapplings with light by the ancient Chinese sage Mo Ti, the Greek philosopher Empedocles, Arab genius Alhazen and others. It also explores the contribution of artists such as Brunellschi, Leonardo de Vinci and Durer to our understanding of light and examines the great revolutionaries of light theory including Galileo, Descartes, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday and Albert Einstein. The text discusses the work of scientists such as Maxwell, Edison and Gould that led to light-driven inventions from the camera to the laser, Cds and optical computers and explains the mind-bending advances of quantum physics.

Light Years : The Extraordinary Story of Mankind's Fascination With Light

Piatkus

This book tells the vivid story of the pioneer of photography, Eadweard Muybridge. His extraordinary personal story has all the ingredients of drama. He was born in the English suburbs, and set out to seek adventure and fortune in the American Wild West. While visiting Europe his coach overturned, and he was treated for a fractured skull. It was at this time that photography grew. Muybridge became a pioneering innovator, who not only invented new methods of photography, but devised 'a flying studio' which enabled him to dvelop his pictures in the field. He was betrayed by his wife, and risked everything by killing her lover. Muybridge's work is iconic, the picture of the moving horse, which proved how it lifted its four feet off the ground simultaneously, known throughout the world. His distinctive stop-motion pictures of men, women, boxers, wrestlers, racehorses, elephants and camels frozen in time, captured in the act of moving, fighting, galloping, living, have become some of the most famous images in the history of photography and science.

The Man Who Stopped Time

Biographies & Memoirs

The History Press

Creativity and Innovation for Managers

Routledge

30-Second Einstein provides you with a day in the company of a colossus from the world of science, and you will soon have his whole story -both his scientific attainments and his extraordinary life- in your head. With each page packed full of essential information, the 50 engaging entries get you to grips with his work, life, and legacy, from atom to atomic bomb, at approximately the speed of light.

30-Second Einstein

Metro

In a world where physics is an everyday essential and new quantum developments make headline news, you need to know your atoms from your antimatter, and learn just enough to speak with fluidity about Fluid Dynamics and be certain about the Uncertainty Principle. Here is the fastest way to get up to speed with rocket science-and the rest. 30-Second Physics tackles the big ideas behind life as we know it, from electromagnetic waves that enable us to connect in an instant from opposite ends of the earth to the gravity that keeps our feet firmly on the ground. Each entry is summarized in just 30 seconds-using nothing more than two pages, 300 words, and a single picture. Illustrated with inventive graphics and supported by biographies of the physicists who transformed scientific knowledge forever.

30-Second Physics

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Books by BRIAN CLEGG

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The Global Warming Survival Kit: The Must-have Guide to Overcoming Extreme Weather, Power Cuts, Food

Build Your Own Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel

Gravity

Gravity

Build Your Own Time Machine

Light Years : The Extraordinary Story of Mankind's Fascination With Light

The Man Who Stopped Time

Creativity and Innovation for Managers

30-Second Einstein

30-Second Physics