' If I saw further than others, ' said Sir Issac Newton, 'it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.' ' Quantum Leaps' introduces one hundred of these giants & examines their achievements: the men & women who, often in the face of extreme scepticism or worse, have striven & succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge. Ranging across the spectrum of scientific endeavour, from the cosmology of Copernicus & Galileo, through the medical revolutions of Hippocrates & Galen, it

Includes:: the fields of physics, biology, chemistry & genetics. This is the story of the ideas that have shaped the world today, & the ideas that will shape the future.

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Time to test yourself with these quirky conundrums to challenge your inner Einstein.

Challenge your mental abilities to

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What is quantum physics? How does it help us understand our amazing world? Where does it leave Newton & Einstein? & why, above all, can we be sure that the theory is good? This title gives us the real science behind the bizarre behaviour of the atoms & energy that make up the universe, & reveal how everything that can happen, does happen. ...

Details: It was just another ordinary day at Mc Kinley High
- until a massive explosion devastated the school. When

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A book-length poem that explores sexuality & subjectivity as well as the viability of narrative itself. It describes the events leading up to the narrator's & his family's death. It is ostensibly set outside London in 1665, during the bubonic plague. ...

Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. & for him that was the day he returned from Vietnam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. When he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. ...

Four film versions of W. Somerset Maugham are brought together & introduced by the man himself: ' The Facts of Life' features a young tennis player who escapes from his domineering partner & absconds to Monaco; ' The Alien Corn' features Dirk Bogarde playing a man with the ambition to be a top pianist, but he is rejected by music scholars; ' The Kite' stars George Cole as a man with an obsession for kites & little time for his wife; ' The Colonel's Lady' revolves around a stuffy colonel's search for the man his wife has been writing passionate poems about. ...

This is a 3-level Spanish course for 11-14 years throughout the Caribbean. Relevant & lively, it consists of 3 Student's Books each with 2 audio CDs, 3 Workbooks & 3 Teacher's Guides. With one set for each year of study, it provides a solid foundation ...

In the 1980s Manchester United was the footballing byword for underachievement. 

The club had struggled to rediscover

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Queen didn t just give audiences music. They gave them a show. Bands in 1971 dressed the same as their audience: long hair, jeans, scruffy shirts. They d shuffle onto the stage, start playing & that was it. Most of them barely looked up. Right from the start Queen did things their own way. They gave audiences however small in the early days something to remember. When Queen took to the stage it was to a fanfare of sound, a barrage of smoke & a lightshow years ahead of Close Encounters. Always ahead of the game with stage effects, some of their lighting rigs were significant enough to earn their own nicknames among fans The Crown was a staple for two tours. Forty years after Queen was formed & 20 years after the death of legendary Freddie Mercury, Queen is back in this remarkable book celebrating the exuberance of the greatest live act of all time. ...