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Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with one of the most transformative scientific concepts- quantum theory. Almost a century later, quantum physics has giv ...Show more
Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing ...Show more
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
$16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind.Everything you need to know about modern physics, the u ...Show more
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
$24.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understandi ...Show more
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
One of the most inspiring and counter-intuitive thinkers of our age, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on science, history and humanity. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the m ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
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, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
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