- Paperback: 800 pages
- Publisher: Cassell Illustrated (11 Sep 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1844035891
- ISBN-13: 978-1844035892
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 18 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 605,699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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We've come a long way from guesses at the Earth's shape (flat) and it's place in the Universe (dead centre). Thanks to ideas of pure genius and accidental realisations, we now see the world completely differently, able to do more and go further. Follow the "Little Black Book: Science" as it highlights the key moments in a century that has seen more progress than any other. Written with flair and insight, it covers widely familiar inventions, great scientific thinkers such as Einstein and Stephen Hawkings, ground-breaking discoveries and mind-boggling theorems that altered the way we see the world, and the less well-known moments that provided the foundations for later discoveries. With all the key moments placed in their social, historical and scientific contexts, the book brings the complexities and secrets of the Universe, the world and everything in them to within your grasp.
About the Author
Null Hypothesis, the Journal of Unlikely Science is an online science magazine that attracts the science-loving general public as well as science specialists. The team have secured a column with the Daily Telegraph and a regular slot on BBC Radio Bristol. They make regular contributions to BBC Radio Five. They publish articles online on a broad spectrum of scientific topics, gained over 900 subscribers to its weekly newsletter and begun to produce a monthly podcast, The Unlikely Science Podcast. Dr Andrew Impey and Dr Mark Steer have worked as lecturers at the Universities of Bristol and the West of England, in Conservation and Ecology, and Conservation and Statistics. Mark received a British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) media fellowship and has written science articles for BBC Wildlife Magazine and the Sunday Telegraph. Hayley Birch is a biology graduate and freelance science writer and recipient of a Wellcome Trust funded Association of British Science Writers bursary for postgraduate science communication studies at UWE. Hayley has also written articles for Nature, BBC Focus magazine and The Naked Scientists.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I really like this book - it is full of interesting facts which you can use to amaze/bore your friends. The writers have made a real effort to make the contents accessible to those without a scientific background.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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There are no superlatives to describe this not-so-little genius of a book. It brings science out of the laboratories and into the public domain. Engaging and entertaining; it manages to succeed where other predacessors in the realm of popular science books have not. This is truly an accessible, informative and highly readable book: a must for any bookshelf!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I was disappointed with the format; I was hoping for a narrated story of modern science, but it is more of a light collection of disparate articles in chronological order.
Fine for a scientists coffee table though!
Fine for a scientists coffee table though!
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