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Einstein in Time and Space
A Life in 99 Particles
2023 || Paperback || Samuel Graydon || Veltman Distributie Import Books
DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.
THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN
His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even of the age. But who was Einstein really?
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered relativity, black holes and E = mc2, dined with Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood and was the inspiration for ...
Dust
The Modern World in a Trillion Particles
2023 || Paperback || Jay Owens || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Dust is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and - also with an ethical argument to advance. Robert Macfarlane
'Superb . . . Dust, an intriguing study by geographer Jay Owens, shows why particles of all kinds are both nature's salvation and its poison.' Telegraph
'Like a detective dusting for fingerprints, Jay Owens masterfully reveals the hidden traces of modernity by following some of its smallest fragments.' James Vincent, author of Beyond Measure
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Dust may s...
This Way to the Universe
A Journey into Physics
2023 || Paperback || Michael Dine || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Extraordinary' Leonard Susskind
'A rare event' Sean Carroll
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When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible and authoritative book that would teach you about the Big Bang, Dark Matter, the Higgs boson and the cutting edge of physics now, he had nothing he could recommend.
So he wrote it himself.
In This Way to the Universe, Dine takes us on a fascinating tour through the history of modern physics - from Newtonian mechanics to quant...
White Holes
Inside the Horizon
2023 || Hardcover || Carlo Rovelli || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Let us journey into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we'll see geometry fold, we'll feel the equations draw tight around us. Eventually, we'll pass it: the remains of a star, deep and dense and falling further far. And then - the bottom. Where time...
Otherlands
A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller
2023 || Paperback || Thomas Halliday || Veltman Distributie Import Books
FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read' Tom Holland
'Epically cinematic... A book of almost unimaginable riches' Sunday Times
This is the past as we've never seen it before.
Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the wo...
Fevered Planet
How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature
2023 || Paperback || John Vidal || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Covid-19, monkeypox, bird flu, SARS, HIV, AIDS, Ebola; we are living in the Age of Pandemics - one that we have created. As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction continues unabated, we are just beginning to reckon with the effects of environmental collapse on our global health.
Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm, what we eat, the places we travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge a...
To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before
A Joyous Journey Through All of Science
2023 || Hardcover || Luke O'Neill || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Science is a serious business, right? Wrong.
Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with all the highs, lows, bust-ups, and strange personalities of any show on telly today. From Luke O'Neill - the science teacher you wish you'd had - this hugely accessible history of science reveals the human stories behind the biggest discoveries.
For example, we meet Charles Darwin as he weighs up the pros and cons of marrying his cousin: 'constant companion' vs 'less money...
A Brief History of Intelligence
Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI
2023 || Paperback || Max Bennett || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A Brief History of Brains bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be.
The Secret Lives of Numbers
A History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers
2023 || Paperback || Kate Kitagawa e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths
Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality.
From the brilliant Arabic scholars of the ...