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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.
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or Free with Kobo PlusQuantum Shorts
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.
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...
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Hollywood Wants to Kill You
The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies
2019
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'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...
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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...
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or Free with Kobo Plus13 Things That Don't Make Sense
The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
2010
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Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense.Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies have revolutionised our world: in the sixteenth century, a set of celestial irregularities led Copernicus to realise that the Earth goes around the sun and not the reverse. In 13 Things That Don't Make Sense Michael Brooks meets thirteen modern-day anomalies that may becom...
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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 ...
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At the Edge of Uncertainty
11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise
2014
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The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped: here, Michael Brooks, bestselling author of 13 Things that Don't Make Sense, investigates the new wave of unexpected insights that are shaping the future of scientific discovery.Through eleven radical new insights, Brooks takes us to the extreme frontiers of what we understand about the wor...
S$ 14.05 SGD
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...
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or Free with Kobo PlusThe Art of More
How Mathematics Created Civilization
2022
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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...
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The BASC Gameshooter's Pocket Guide
The Essential Handook for the Sporting Gun
2017
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• 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...
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The Secret Anarchy of Science
2011
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For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very different: many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines than librarians.This thrilling exploration of some of the greatest breakthroughs in science reveals the extreme lengths some scientists go to in order to make their theories public. Fraud, suppressing evidence and unethical or reckless PR games are s...
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