This is an out-of-this world journey across the universe. From the fiery mass of the Sun's core to the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Universe" takes you on the ultimate guided tour of the cosmos. Full of stunning out-of-this world images reflecting recent advances in space imagery you'll go on a journey from our solar system all the way to the farthest limits of space. This new edition has been expanded & updated to include the most exciting new discoveries from water on Mars to planets in other solar systems plus up-to-date charts & information on the latest equipment for studying the wonders of the universe. The comprehensive night-sky atlas covers all the constellations & planetary charts showing their positions right up to 2019. With a special embossed jacket " Universe" is a beautiful special gift for keen amateur astronomers as well as a great reference book for the whole family." ...

This stunning collection of images & essays surveys the key breakthroughs that have shaped our understanding of the universe ...

Internationally renowned theoretical physicist & bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative revelatory answers to the biggest philosophical questions: Where did our universe come from? Why does anything exist? & how is it all going to end? ' Why is there something rather than nothing?' is the question atheists & scientists are always asked & until now there has not been a satisfying scientific answer. Today exciting scientific advances provide new insight into this cosmological mystery: not only can something arise from nothing but something will always arise from nothing. A mind-bending trip back to the beginning of the beginning A Universe from Nothing authoritatively presents the most recent evidence that explains how our universe evolved
- & the implications for how it's going to end. It will provoke challenge & delight readers to look at the most basic underpinnings of existence in a whole new way. In the words of Richard Dawkins: this could potentially be the most important scientific book since Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
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Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time was a publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages it has sold over nine million copies worldwide. It continues to captivate & inspire new readers every year. When it was first published in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edge of what was then known about the universe. In the intervening years there have been extraordinary advances in our understanding of the space & time. The technology for observing the micro- & macro-cosmic world has developed in leaps & bounds. During the same period cosmology & the theoretical sciences have entered a new golden age. Professor Stephen Hawking has been at the heart of this new scientific renaissance. Now in The Universe in a Nutshell Stephen Hawking brings us fully up-to-date with the advances in scientific thinking. We are now nearer than we have ever been to a full understanding of the universe. In a fascinating & accessible discussion that ranges from quantum mechanics to time travel black holes to uncertainty theory to the search for science's Holy Grail
- the unified field theory (or in layman's terms the 'theory of absolutely everything') Professor Hawking once more takes us to the cutting edge of modern thinking. Beautifully illustrated throughout with original artwork commissioned for this project The Universe in a Nutshell is guaranteed to be the biggest science book of 2001.
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Built from the debris of exploding stars that floated through space for billions of years home to a zoo of tiny aliens & controlled by a brain with more possible connections than there are atoms in the universe the human body is the most incredible thing in existence. In the sequel to his bestselling Inflight Science Brian Clegg explores mitochondria in-cell powerhouses which are thought to have once been separate creatures; how your eyes are quantum traps consuming photons of light from the night sky that have travelled for millions of years; your many senses which include the ability to detect warps in space & time & why meeting an attractive person can turn you into a gibbering idiot. Read THE UNIVERSE INSIDE YOU & you'll never look at yourself the same way again. ...

In the twelfth century Christians in Europe began to build a completely new kind of church
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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. 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.. .
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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. 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.. .
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A tale of an unexpected friendship an unlikely hero & an improbable journey Alexs story treads the fine line between light & dark laughter & tears. & it might just strike you as one of the funniest most heartbreaking novels youve ever read. Alex Woods knows that he hasnt had the most conventional start in life. He knows that growing up with a clairvoyant single mother wont endear him to the local bullies. He also knows that even the most improbable events can happen
- hes got the scars to prove it. What he doesnt know yet is that when he meets ill-tempered reclusive widower Mr Peterson hell 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 hes fairly sure hes done the right thing.
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A tale of an unexpected friendship an unlikely hero & an improbable journey... This novel might just strike you as one of the funniest most heartbreaking novels you've ever read. This is the story of seventeen-year-old Alex Woods
- born to a clairvoyant mother & a phantom father victim of an improbable childhood accident
- who is stopped at Dover customs in possession of 113 grams of marijuana & the ashes of his best friend Vietnam veteran Isaac Peterson. What follows is a highly original & compelling account of Alex's life & the strange series of events that brought him here.

The Universe Versus Alex Woods is part of the Richard & Judy Summer 2013 Book Club. Find out how you can get involved with Britain's biggest & best book club. Visit the brand new Book Club website Â- ...