This book presents winning and shortlisted stories from past editions of the international Quantum Shorts competition. Inspired by the weird and wonderful world of quantum physics, the shorts range from bold imaginings of a quantum future to contemplations rooted in the everyday. They feature characters of all sorts: lovers beginning their lives together, an atom having an existential crisis, and, of course, cats. These Quantum Shorts will unleash in your mind a multiverse of ideas.

"Engaging . . . touches on advanced computing, essential differences between men and women, the power of the will to live, mysteries of the cosmos and more." — The Washington PostThe atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All are ideas that revolutionized science—and all were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped in recent years, and in At the Edge of Uncertainty, bestselling author Mi...

The writers behind New Scientist explore the baffling concept of nothingness from the fringes of the universe to our minds' inner workings.It turns out that nothing is as curious or as enlightening as nothingness itself. What is nothing? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate—from the big bang, dark energy, and the void, to superconductors, vestigial organs, hypnosis, and the placebo effect. And they disco...

• Wanting the latest BASC guidance?• Sudden invitation to a shoot and feeling a bit rusty?• New to shooting?• Shooting a different species to your usual one?The invaluable pocket book for everyone who shootsIt includes: up-to-date proofing law, game licences, despatch and carriage of game, shooting season dates.And for the relative newcomer, much invaluable advice: what to expect from a shooting day, your responsibiliti...

Ninety-six per cent of the universe is missing. The effects of homeopathy don’t go away under rigorous scientific conditions. The laws of nature aren’t what they used to be. Thirty years on, no one has an explanation for a seemingly intelligent signal received from outer space. The US Department of Energy is re-examining cold fusion because the experimental evidence seems too solid to ignore. The placebo effect is put to work in medicine while doctors can’t agree whether it even exists.

Ally's world was shattered the night she was attacked. Lost in addiction and haunted by pain, she wanders the streets of Baltimore searching for a way back to herself.Jason, torn between protecting Ally and confronting his own guilt, fights to hold them both together as the city around them begins to crack under pressure. As Charlie Mack return to the force with a buried past and Tracy Logan rises from the ruins of his family's tragedy, old wounds resurface and new dangers take shape. Thro...

"A brilliant critique of the Right with very sharp insight on some of the shortcomings of the Left, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to understand how dishonest actors spread their propaganda." Ana Kasparian, Host and Executive Producer of The Young TurksMichael Brooks takes on the new "Intellectual Dark Web."As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and co-host of the Majority Report, Brooks was a progressive fighter whose...

Imagine how great it would be to cut costs and grow your business beyond your wildest expectations by "remoting it" with outstanding global freelance talent? Yes, you can eliminate the expense of maintaining an office and many other costs with this approach.Think about the freedom this offers you and your workers—to be productive, efficient, and innovative from any location in the world. REMOTE iT! by Michael Brooks describes how to achieve this result at a fractio...

This ebook will teach you how to create and sell your very first ebook. We will go from ideas to planning and publishing your ebook.We will plan our ideas using Trello boards, design our frontpage with Canva and write a complete ebook ready for selling with Google Docs.Every detail of how this exact ebook is created will be in here and it will be the only resource you will need.

An illuminating, millennia-spanning history of the impact mathematics has had on the world, and the fascinating people who have mastered its inherent powerCounting is not innate to our nature, and without education humans can rarely count past three — beyond that, it’s just “more.” But once harnessed by our ancestors, the power of numbers allowed humanity to flourish in ways that continue to lead to discoveries and enrich our lives today.Ancient tax collect...

Talent, skill, and a passion to compete: These are the characteristics that define elite-level swimmers. But as the sport’s best coaches know, even the most gifted of athletes won’t develop these traits without a plan—one that recognizes talent, develops skills, and nurtures success.Developing Swimmers is the only book to offer a comprehensive, long-term plan beginning at an age-group level. Renowned coach Michael Brooks shares the insights, secrets, and strategies that ha...

How can Christians believe in an all-powerful, all-knowing and loving God whilst there is so much suffering in the world? Contemporary theology books refer to the problem of theodicy as a significant and unresolved problem. Engaging with theology, biblical study, physics and biology, and philosophy and producing a cohesive synthesis of these subjects, Good God offers an answer that has the potential to re-integrate Christian theology with science and philosophy for the first time ...