Product Description: Fill your upcoming 2015, with 12 months of Solar System all year round. This beautiful calendar contains 12 months and 3 mini 2014, 2015, and 2016 year calendars.

Product Description: In What a Wonderful World, Marcus Chown, physicist, broadcaster and consultant for New Scientist, applies his deep understanding of complex things to simple questions about the workings of our everyday lives. Lucid, witty and hugely entertaining, the book explains the essence of our existance, stopping along the way to answer such questions as why do we breathe? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? And how did an advanced breed of monkey like us get to dominate the earth...read more

Product Description: Take a yearlong tour around our solar system.Each month in the Solar System calendar explores a new beautiful and fascinating body in our interstellar neighborhood.Based on the best-selling book Solar System and the best-selling iPad app of the same name, Solar System 2015 Calendar is perfect for scientists, students, teachers, and anyone interested in the beauty and diversity of outer space...read more

Product Description: Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you about the most shocking discovery in the history of science: that at its deepest level the world is orchestrated by chance; that ultimately, things happen for no reason at all...read more

The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general theory of relativity. Together, they explain virtually everything about the world we live in. But, almost a century after their advent, most people haven't the slightest clue what either is about. Did you know that there's so much empty space inside matter that the entire human race could be squeezed into the volume of a sugar cube? Or that you grow old more quickly on the top floor of a building than on the ground floor? And did you realize that 1% of the static on a TV tuned between stations is the relic of the Big Bang? These and many other remarkable facts about the world are direct consequences of quantum physics and relativity. Quantum theory has literally made the modern world possible. Not only has it given us lasers, computers, and nuclear reactors, but it has provided an explanation of why the sun shines and why the ground beneath our feet is solid. Despite this, however, quantum theory and relativity remain a patchwork of fragmented ideas, vaguely understood at best and often utterly mysterious. They have even gained a reputation of being beyond the understanding of the average person. Author Marcus Chown emphatically disagrees. As Einstein himself said, "Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone." If you think that the marvels of modern physics have passed you by, it is not too late. In Chown's capable hands, quantum physics and relativity are not only painless but downright fun. So sit back, relax, and get comfortable as an adept and experienced science communicator brings you quickly up to speed on some of the greatest ideas in the history of human thought.

Provides insights into the future of technology, covering such topics as time travel, immortality, and the fifth dimension.

A history of science's efforts to unravel the origins and mystery of atoms offers profiles of key scientists, from ancient Greece to the present day, and examines important discoveries that have unlocked the nature of the universe, the evolution of the stars, the origins of life, the role of subatomic particles, the vast potential of atomic energy, and more. By the author of Afterglow of Creation. (view table of contents)