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George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (George's Secret Key #2) by Lucy Hawking; Stephen Hawking
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: George's Secret Key to the Universe | Reading Level: good
George's best friend, Annie, needs help. Her scientist father, Eric, is working on a space project -- and it's all going wrong. A robot has landed on Mars but is behaving very oddly. And now Annie has discovered something weird on her dad's supercomputer. Is it a message from an alien? Could there be ...Show more
George's Secret Key to the Universe by Stephen Hawking, Lucy Hawking
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: George's Secret Key to the Universe | Reading Level: good
George's pet pig breaks through the fence into the garden next door - introducing him to his new neighbours- the scientist, Eric, his daughter, Annie, and a super-intelligent computer called Cosmos. And from that moment George's life will never be the same again, for Cosmos can open a portal to any poin ...Show more
My Brief History: A Memoir by Stephen Hawking
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inwards for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution. My Brief History recounts Stephen ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything: From the Big Bang to Belly-Button Fluff (HB) by New Scientist Magazine Staff; Stephen Hawking; Jennifer Daniel (Illustrator); Graham Lawton
$50.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, the history of science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why yo ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything by New Scientist, Stephen Hawking, Graham Lawton
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Intro by Stephen Hawking
Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been travelling, he reasoned, then they must, at some point ...Show more
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"In the last thirty years of his life Albert Einstein searched for a unified theory - a theory which could describe all the forces of nature in a single framework. But the time was not right for such a discovery in Einstein's day. Neither was the time right when, in 1988, Professor Stephen Hawking wrote ...Show more
Unlocking the Universe by Lucy and Stephen Hawking
$24.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction
The ultimate children's guide to the universe. Have you ever wondered how the universe began? Or what it takes to put humans on the moon - or even on Mars? What would you do if you could travel through space and time? *NOW WITH BRAND NEW CONTENT FOR 2021* Embark on the adventure of a lifetime in t ...Show more
Unlocking the Universe by Lucy and Stephen Hawking
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction
Have you ever wondered how the universe began? Or what it takes to put humans on the moon - or even on Mars? What would you do if you could travel through space and time?Embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this beautiful collection of up-to-the-minute essays by the world's leading scientists includ ...Show more