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Churchill's Bomb by Graham Farmelo
$55.00 NZD
Category: World History
This book comes from the author of the Costa award-winning biography. The Strangest Man offers us a strikingly fresh view of Winston Churchill's long political career. Churchill was the only prominent politician to foresee the nuclear age and he played a leading role in the development of the Bomb durin ...Show more
Churchill's Bomb: A Hidden History of Britain's First Nuclear Weapons Programme by Graham Farmelo
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Churchill's Bomb reveals a new aspect of the great Prime Minister's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain's policy on atomic weapons. Churchill was far more interested in science than he appeared. He made brave efforts t ...Show more
The Strangest Man : The hidden life of Paul Dirac, quantum genius by Graham Farmelo
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize. Through h ...Show more
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets by Graham Farmelo
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
'A superbly written, riveting book.' Martin ReesSearching for the fundamental laws of the universe, physicists have found themselves developing ambitious mathematical ideas. But without observation and experiment as their guide, are they now doing 'fairy-tale physics' as their detractors claim? In The ...Show more
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