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The BASC Gameshooter's Pocket Guide
The Essential Handook for the Sporting Gun
2017
EN
• 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...
7,62 €
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Collected Flash Fiction Inspired by Quantum Physics
2019
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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.
Against the Web
A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
2020
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"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...
11,45 €
2020
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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.
1,99 €
or Free with Kobo PlusThe Art of More
how mathematics created civilisation
2021
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Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as he explains why maths is fundamental to our understanding of the world.1, 2, 3 … ? The human brain isn’t wired for maths; beyond the number 3, it just sees ‘more’. So why bother learning it at all?You might remember studying geometry, calculus, and algebra at school, but you probably didn’t realise — or weren’t taught — that these are the root...
22,67 €
2025
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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...
8,99 €
Hollywood Wants to Kill You
The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies
2019
EN
'A wonderful book... Delightfully varied... As with all the best science writing, this book doesn't just give answers, it also asks interesting questions.' Daily Mail'Captivating and intelligent! Who knew death could be this much fun?' Richard OsmanAsteroids, killer sharks, nuclear bombs, viruses, deadly robots, climate change, the apocalypse - why is Hollywood so obsessed with death and the end of the world? And how seriously shou...
8,79 €
The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook
a history of the Renaissance mathematics that birthed imaginary numbers, probability, and the new physics of the universe
2017
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A book of science like no other, about a scientist like no other.This is a landmark in science writing. It resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. Who is he? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and chancer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to kings, emperors and popes. This stubborn and unworldly man was the son of a lawyer and a brothel keeper, but also a gifted physician and the unacknowled...
20,66 €
Nothing
Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion
2014
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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...
8,47 €
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The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies
2017
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**A Sunday Times Book of the YearA New Scientist Gift Pick"Bright, nerdy and funny! Of course I loved it." Dara O Briain**Can we resurrect dinosaurs, Jurassic Park-style? Are we living in The Matrix's digital simulation? Do aliens with acid blood exist somewhere in the universe? Will we ever go back and visit 1955? And just why were the original Planet of the Ape movies so terrible?In Science(ish), Rick Ed...
6,35 €
Good God
Suffering, faith, reason and science
2024
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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 ...
6,99 €
The Maths That Made Us
how numbers created civilisation
2022
EN
Quadratic equations, Pythagoras’ theorem, imaginary numbers, and pi — you may remember studying these at school, but did anyone ever explain why? Never fear — bestselling science writer, and your new favourite maths teacher, Michael Brooks, is here to help.In The Maths That Made Us, Brooks reminds us of the wonders of numbers: how they enabled explorers to travel far across the seas and astronomers to map the heavens; how they won wars and halted the HIV e...
22,67 €











