Brian Clegg

Inflight Science

A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window

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Produktbeschreibung

The perfect companion to any flight - a guide to the science on view from your window seat

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Icon Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 168g
• ISBN-13: 9781848313057
• ISBN-10: 1848313055
• Artikelnr.: 33109403

Autorenporträt

Science writer Brian Clegg studied physics at Cambridge and specializes in making the strangest aspects of the universe accessible to the general reader. He is editor of popularscience.co.uk and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. His previous books from Icon include Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You, Dice World, The Quantum Age and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide. He is also the author of, from St Martin's Press, The God Effect (2009), Gravity (2012) and How to Build a Time Machine (2013). Clegg lives in Swindon, U.K.

Rezensionen

'What a lovely little book this is: the ultimate holiday read before the holiday's even begun.... Author Brian Clegg clearly understands that science is only as dry as the ivy-covered professors who make it so.' Word Magazine