Einstein life universe paperback

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius. He was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days. His character, creativity and imagination were related, and they drove both his life and his science. In this marvellously clear and accessible narrative, Walter Isaacson explains how his mind worked and the mysteries of the universe that he discovered. Einstein's success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marvelling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a worldview based on respect for free spirits and free individuals. All of which helped make Einstein into a rebel but with a reverence for the harmony of nature, one with just the right blend of imagination and wisdom to transform our understanding of the universe. This new biography, the first since all of Einstein's papers have become available, is the fullest picture yet of one of the key figures of the twentieth century. Features Summary The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available -- a fully realised portrait of this extraordinary human being... Author Walter Isaacson Publisher Simon & Schuster Release date 20080426 Pages 675 ISBN 1-84739-054-4 ISBN 13 978-1-84739-054-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award--winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how Einstein's scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Einstein explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. Einstein, the classic #1 New York Times bestseller, is a brilliantly acclaimed account of the most influential scientist of the twentieth century, "an illuminating delight" (The New York Times). The basis for the National Geographic series Genius, by the author of The Innovators, Steve Jobs, and Benjamin Franklin, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. Features Summary From Isaacson, the bestselling author of "Benjamin Franklin," comes the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all his papers have become available--a fully realized portrait of a premier icon of his era. Author Walter Isaacson Publisher Simon & Schuster Release date 20170411 Pages 675 ISBN 1-5011-7138-0 ISBN 13 978-1-5011-7138-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days 'Fascinating' - Brian Cox, Mail on Sunday Books of the Year Where are we? Who are we? Do our beliefs, hopes and dreams hold any significance out there in the void? Can human purpose and meaning ever fit into a scientific worldview? Award-winning author Sean Carroll brings his extraordinary intellect to bear on the realms of knowledge, the laws of nature and the most profound questions about life, death and our place in it all. From Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness and the universe itself, Carroll combines cosmos-sprawling science and profound thought in a quest to explain our world. Destined to sit alongside the works of our greatest thinkers, The Big Picture demonstrates that while our lives may be forever dwarfed by the immensity of the universe, they can be redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning. Features Summary The instant New York Times bestseller and one of Brian Cox's books of the year in the Mail on Sunday Author Sean Carroll Publisher Oneworld Publications Release date 20170421 Pages 480 ISBN 1-78607-103-7 ISBN 13 978-1-78607-103-3

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) On the 100th anniversary of the publishing of the special theory of relativity, this National Geographic photobiography chronicles the life of one of the most brilliant scientists who ever lived. Through compelling text and stirring archival photographs, the author recounts Einstein's life from his privileged childhood in Austria through the crucial years during World War II, and his death 50 years ago in Princeton, New Jersey. Young readers learn about Einstein's remarkable theories that still influence technologies of today and discover the causes he passionately supported such as disarmament and civil liberties. Format:Paperback / softback Pages:64

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days 'Inspirational' Buzz Aldrin When exactly did life begin? What really happened during the big bang - and before it? Is the universe expanding? Is dark matter real? Do we live in one of many worlds? What's more, how can we prove any of this? This book is all about how we - any of us - can gain an understanding of the Universe in all its awe-inspiring glory. Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw take us on an epic journey of scientific exploration, revealing how the biggest questions - from the size of the earth to the distance to the stars - are answerable from our own back gardens. You don't need a Large Hadron Collider or a Hubble Space Telescope to explore the cosmos. You just need this book. Features Summary 'Inspirational' Buzz Aldrin When exactly did life begin? What really happened during the big bang - and before it? Is the universe expanding? Is dark matter real? Author Brian Cox (Author), Jeff Forshaw (Author) Publisher Penguin Books Release date 20170831 Pages 277 ISBN 0-241-95317-0 ISBN 13 978-0-241-95317-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days A new team of misfits are given a second chance at life by the mysterious figure The Professor but only if they re willing to explore the most unknown reaches of the universe. Seeking a set of powerful artifacts, the team must defeat a rival group of explorers to combine them or the world as we know it could end. From legendary artist Andy Kubert (Batman: The Dark Knight: Master Race) and writer Scott Snyder (Dark Nights: Metal, Batman), New Challengers emerges as one of the flagship titles of the New Age of Heroes! Collects issues #1-6. The DC Universe just got bigger! In the New Age of Heroes, DC introduces a bold new line of comics starring a thrilling array of heroes some you know, some you may have glimpsed in the pages of Dark Nights: Metal. They embody a spirit of epic, adventurous bravery the kind you may remember from another era, but updated in an exciting way for today. Illustrated by DC s Master Class of artists, including legendary names like Jim Lee, Andy Kubert, John Romita Jr., Ivan Reis, Tony S. Daniel and others, these new series are great entry points for new readers and a welcome addition for longtime fans of the DC library. Features Summary Spinning out of the best-selling Dark Nights: Metal epic comes New Challengers, a group of fearless explorers who will uncover the worst and weirdest the DC Universe has to offer. Author S. Snyder Publisher DC Comics Release date 20180808 Pages 144 ISBN 1-4012-8344-6 ISBN 13 978-1-4012-8344-5

 New. Paperback. Postage R55.00. Extra items free. This book blends science and spirituality to see whole truths that "make all things new." Its aim is to help us realize that we who are people of faith cannot continue to practice our faith in isolation anymore. A quantum universe is telling us that we are all connected; that the God of one is the God of all; that diversity is a blessing; that the suffering of any of earth's people or any part of the planet is a desecration to us all. The benefit of the book is to jumpstart us in a new spiritual direction that is as energizing as it is surprising. It encourages us to look at life through a new lens that will help us see more than we have ever seen before. It is one of those rare books on quantum science that transcends information and offers us a way of transformation.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Princess Mia Thermopolis is about to turn eighteen and has decided to put down her princess pen for good. But how will it end? Is the practically perfect J.P. the real love of Mia's life? Will an election in Genovia mean the end of princessdom for Mia? Is she really the last virgin at Albert Einstein High? And finally, crucially, will Michael Moscovitz return from Japan and make a last-minute romantic gesture just in time to save Mia from making a HUGE mistake? Previously published as Ten Out of Ten, Meg Cabot's Crowning Glory is the tenth novel in the hilarious The Princess Diaries. Features Summary Princess Mia Thermopolis is about to turn eighteen and has decided to put down her princess pen for good. But how will it end? Is the practically perfect J... Author Meg Cabot Publisher Macmillan Children's Books Release date 20150929 Pages 454 ISBN 1-4472-8786-X ISBN 13 978-1-4472-8786-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days "No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now." Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents -- considered expendable by society -- are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life...or it could be a suicide mission. CLARKE was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did. WELLS, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves -- but will she ever forgive him? Reckless BELLAMY fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe. And GLASS managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth. Confronted with a savage land and haunted by secrets from their pasts, the hundred must fight to survive. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind's last hope. Features Summary "No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now." Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface... Author Kass Morgan Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Release date 20140318 Pages 323 ISBN 0-316-23449-4 ISBN 13 978-0-316-23449-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days "I have no idea why everyone thinks nature is so benign and glorious and wonderful. All nature is trying to do is kill us as efficiently as possible." Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time for enlightenment. Fleur, left behind at the crumbling Namaste House, must step into Oleander's role as guru to lost and lonely celebrities. Bryony wants to lose the weight she put on after her botanist parents disappeared, but can't stop drinking. And Charlie struggles to make sense of his life after losing the one woman he could truly love. A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers. As Henry James said of George Eliot's Middlemarch, The Seed Collectors is a 'treasurehouse of detail' revealing all that it means to be connected, to be part of a society, to be part of the universe and to be human. Features Summary The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y Author Scarlett Thomas Publisher Canongate Books Ltd Release date 20150729 Pages 374 ISBN 1-84767-921-8 ISBN 13 978-1-84767-921-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days In a near-future Britain, a distributed surveillance-democracy called The System knows everything you, and can even spy on your mind. It's a Panopticon country. But when state investigators then look into the head of a refusenik novelist named Diana Hunter, what they find there is not her life story but that of four other people, spread across thousands of years, all vibrantly real and each utterly impossible - and before they can unravel that puzzle, Diana Hunter, shockingly, dies as a result of the investigation, an unheard of result in a perfect system which protects everyone from harm. That's where Inspector Mielikki Neith comes in, a staunch believer in The System who is assigned to investigate the Hunter case. The only problem is that the teasing mysteries in the dead woman's mind may change all that. And these are extraordinary memories, ranging from the life of a banker named Constantine Kyriakos, who finds himself pursued by a shark that may in fact be a god; and an Ethiopian retired pop artist, Berihun Bekele, who picks up his brushes to create a virtual world called The System at the behest of his games' designer grand-daughter; and Athenais Karthagonensis, the jilted lover of one of the Church's most beloved saints, who seeks to resurrect her dead son with the help of a non-existent miracle; and then finally GNOMON, the acerbic post-human who is plotting to assassinate the next iteration of the Universe... The question is whether there is a truth hidden in the noise of all those lives, as Mielikki begins to suspect? Or is all that unfolding experience and drama simply a cover for some kind of attack upon the fabric of the most democratic nation state ever constructed? And the questions just keep coming. Who was Diana Hunter, and why are her books impossible to obtain? And above all, was Diana Hunter innocent all along - worse, could she have been correct to attempt to withstand a perfect, democratic system? Features Summary In a near-future Britain, a distributed surveillance-democracy called The System knows everything you, and can even spy on your mind. It's a Panopticon country... Author Nick Harkaway Publisher William Heinemann Ltd Release date 20171114 Pages 688 ISBN 1-78515-128-2 ISBN 13 978-1-78515-128-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days A part of DC Universe: Rebirth! Half-man, half-machine and longtime member of the Justice League, Cyborg faces his faces a fatal systems crash over his latest indentity crisis: Is he truly more dead than alive? Vic Stone is about to get a real-life 404 error when his father doesn't recognize him and cybernetic implants that saved his life seem to be stripping away the last bits of his humanity. Will Cyborg's human side win out? Or will he find out he's really just a machine who thinks he's a man? Features Summary Half-man, half-machine and longtime member of the Justice League, Cyborg faces a fatal systems crash over his indentity crisis: Is he truly more dead than alive? Author John Semper Publisher DC Comics Release date 20170327 ISBN 1-4012-6792-0 ISBN 13 978-1-4012-6792-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Colour a galaxy far, far away in this giant colouring book, with over 100 illustrations by Ronan Toulhouat, Kanthesis and LucasFilm! Relax, and let the creativity flow through you. Whether a skilled artist or an everyday dabbler of drawings and doodles, fans of all ages will enjoy these intricate illustrations of awesome vehicles, stunning landscapes, and memorable characters from the Star Wars universe. Bring all your favourite characters to life, from Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker to Darth Maul and Boba Fett. Take up your lightsabre - or at least your pencils and marker pens - and explore the Empire, the Rebel Alliance, and much, much more. May the Force be with you! Also look out for: Star Wars Dot to Dot; Star Wars Graphics; and, Star Wars Art Therapy. Features Summary A giant colouring book, with over 100 illustrations that lets you colour a galaxy far, far away. Whether a skilled artist or an everyday dabbler of drawings and doodles... Author Lucasfilm Ltd (Author), Egmont Publishing UK (Author) Publisher Egmont Books (UK) Release date 20160504 Pages 112 ISBN 1-4052-8474-9 ISBN 13 978-1-4052-8474-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Time is collapsing in on itself. The villainous Extant has ushered in a series of black holes that are swallowing the universe--past, present and future! Superman, like everyone else in the DC Universe, has seen time loops affect his life. The result? The past is not what it should be. Krypton never exploded. The Kents never found a baby in a Smallville field. Superman isn't the protector of Metropolis. How can the Man of Steel put back time as it should be? Legendary comics writers Dan Jurgens, Karl Kesel, Louise Simonson and more present the tales tying into the classic ZERO HOUR event, now collected here for the first time! Collects ACTION COMICS #0, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #0, SUPERMAN #0 and SUPERMAN MAN OF STEEL #0. Features Summary Finally the SUPERMAN tie-in adventures to the massive ZERO HOUR crossover are collected here! Author Dan Jurgens (Author), Jon Bogdanove (Author) Publisher DC Comics Release date 20180622 Pages 296 ISBN 1-4012-8053-6 ISBN 13 978-1-4012-8053-6

Paperback. English. Gollancz. 2003. In good condition. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into interstellar space...Alastair Reynolds burst onto the SF scene with the Arthur C. Clarke Award-shortlisted REVELATION SPACE, British Science Fiction Award-winning CHASM CITY, and REDEMPTION ARK. Now experience the phenomenal imagination and breathtaking vision of 'The most exciting space opera writer working today' (Locus) in these two tales of high adventure set in the same universe as his novels. The title story, 'Diamond Dogs', tells of a group of mercenaries trying to unravel the mystery of a particularly inhospitable alien tower on a distant world; 'Turquoise Days' is about Naqi, who has devoted her life to studying the alien Pattern Jugglers.