Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real practical book about the mysteries of the universe The Universe In Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey to the surface of our dying Sun shrinks us to the size of an atom & puts us in the deathly grip of distant Black Holes Along the way you might come to understand really understand the mind-bending science that underpins modern life from Quantum Mechanics to Einstein's theory of General Relativity Through brilliant storytelling & humour rather than graphs & equations internationally renowned astrophysicist Christophe Galfard has written an instant classic that brings the astonishing beauty of the universe to life
- & takes us deep into questions about the beginning of time & the future of humanity
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A journey through 55 alternative realities parallel worlds & possible futures It's lucky you're here But for a series of incredible coincidences & roads not taken your life could be very different The same goes for reality We live in just one of many possible worlds In others dinosaurs still rule the Earth the Russians got to the Moon first time flows backwards & everyone is vegetarian And that's just for starters What if the laws of physics were different? If we really did live in a multiverse? If robots became smarter than us? If humans were wiped off the face of the planet? Join New Scientist on a thrilling journey through these & dozens of other incredible but perfectly possible alternative realities thought experiments & counterfactual histories
- each shining a surprising & unexpected spotlight on life as we know it
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International best-selling author of Love & Misadventure Lullabies (Goodreads Readers Choice Award) & Memories Lang Leav presents a completely new collection of poetry with a celestial theme in The Universe of Us Planets stars & constellations feature prominently in this beautiful original poetry collection from Lang Leav Inspired by the wonders of the universe the best-selling poetess writes about love & loss hope & hurt being lost & found Lang's poetry encompasses the breadth of emotions we all experience & evokes universal feelings with her skillfully crafted words International Bestseller Over 26K copies sold in the UK of Love & MIsadventure (2013) 9781449456146 Hits the sweet spot of YAAdult crossover appeal
- hitting both the teen fiction & love poetry bestseller lists at multiple online retailers This is the perfect keepsake book for fans of Haruki Murakami David Levithan John Green & Jenny Han Facebook 837K likes (August 2017) Instagram 374K followers (August 2017 Twitter 214K followers (August 2017)
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Perfect for fans of A BOY made from BLOCKSRICHARD & JUDY summer bookclub read 2013 Amazon Rising star & shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize A funny & touching story of an unlikely friendship & an improbable journey Alex Woods knows that he hasn't had the most conventional start in life He knows that growing up with a clairvoyant single mother won't endear him to the local bullies He also knows that even the most improbable events can happen
- he's got the scars to prove it What he doesn't know yet is that when he meets ill-tempered reclusive widower Mr Peterson he'll make an unlikely friend Someone who tells him that you only get one shot at life That you have to make the best possible choices So when aged seventeen Alex is stopped at Dover customs with 113 grams of marijuana an urn full of ashes on the passenger seat & an entire nation in uproar he's fairly sure he's done the right thing A tale of an unexpected friendship an unlikely hero & an improbable journey Alex's story treads the fine line between light & dark laughter & tears & it might just strike you as one of the funniest most heartbreaking novels you've ever read
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Are you struggling to decide which university course to go for? Or whether to study in Bangor or Bath? With over 1200 degree subjects & more than 35000 courses on offer ensuring you make the right choice is more vital than ever with the decisions you make having an impact on both your finances & potentially your future career The University Choice Journal is here to support you through the process encouraging prospective university students to think more deeply about their choices with probing questions & reflective activities that are recorded in the write-in journal pages Written in a clear & engaging style by someone who has guided students through the university application process for over a decade the journal covers all of the areas that you need to consider when making your decision From what & where to study university visits & fees to whether to take a gap year & what's happening in the labour market by the end of the process you will have learnt about your strengths & weaknesses feel clearer about your choices & more able to make an informed decision ...

The University of Oxford was a medieval wonder After its foundation in the late 12th century it made a crucial contribution to the core syllabus of all medieval universities
- the study of the liberal arts law medicine & theology
- & attracted teachers of international calibre & fame The ideas of brilliant thinkers like innovative translator of Greek Robert Grosseteste pioneering philosopher Roger Bacon & reforming Christian humanist John Colet redirected traditional scholasticism & helped usher in the Renaissance In her concise & much-praised new history G R Evans reveals a powerhouse of learning & culture Over a span of more than 800 years Oxford has nurtured some of the greatest minds while right across the globe its name is synonymous with educational excellence From dangerous political upheavals caused by the radical & inflammatory ideas of John Wyclif to the bloody 1555 martyrdoms of Hugh Latimer & Nicholas Ridley; & from John Ruskin's innovative lectures on art & explosive public debate between Charles Darwin & his opponents to gentler meetings of C S Lewis J R RTolkien & the Inklings in the ' Bird & Baby' Evans brings Oxford's revolutionary events as well as its remarkable intellectual journey to vivid & sparkling life

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Miles from anywhere Darracott Place is presided over by irascible Lord Darracott The recent drowning of his eldest son has done nothing to improve his temper For now he must send for the unknown offspring of the uncle whom the family are never permitted to mention Yet none of that beleaguered family are prepared for the arrival of the weaver's brat & heir apparent Yet again Georgette Heyer shows the qualities that made her one of the most successful & best-loved romantic novelists of her age & why her popularity endures to this day ...

An action-oriented medium comics have long used wars—real & fictional—as narrative fodder often with a strong message attached Buried in rare comics published during the Cold War were powerful war fantasy & sci-fi stories that strongly condemned war & the bomb boldly calling for peace While a few comics of the time portrayed the horrors of war the more blatant anti-war stories were largely unappreciated or so cloaked in metaphor that they went unnoticed by contemporary audiences Today we can more fully appreciate the efforts of the fine writers & cartoonists who were crying out for peace in their—and our—time Journey back with us now & discover the secret surprising history of anti-war comics with this marvelously curated collection About the Author Steve Ditko is best known as the artist & co-creator with Stan Lee of the Marvel characters Spider-Man & Doctor Strange He began his professional career in 1953 working in the studio of Joe Simon & Jack Kirby as an inker During the late 1950s he began working for Atlas Comics a forerunner of Marvel Comics where he continued to contribute work in the 1960s He went on to work for Charlton & DC Comics where he created or co-created such characters as the Question the Creeper the Changing Man & Hawk & Dove Ditko was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990 & the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994 ...

Only one person knows what happened that day Julia was the only person who knew what happened that day But she didn't tell the police & then it was too late Now years later her secret looms large Is it really too late? & if she does tell can she bear the consequences? ...

On 21 March 2013 the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space & 138 billion years of time it is physically impossible to make a better map we will never see the early Universe in more detail On the one hand such a view is the apotheosis of modern cosmology on the other it threatens to undermine almost everything we hold cosmologically sacrosanct The map contains anomalies that challenge our understanding of the Universe It will force us to revisit what is known & what is unknown to construct a new model of our Universe This is the first book to address what will be an epoch-defining scientific paradigm shift Stuart Clark will ask if Newton's famous laws of gravity need to be rewritten if dark matter & dark energy are just celestial phantoms? Can we ever know what happened before the Big Bang? What's at the bottom of a black hole? Are there Universes beyond our own? Does time exist? Are the once immutable laws of physics changing? ...