Description: Further DetailsTitle: What a Wonderful WorldCondition: NewSubtitle: Life, the Universe and Everything in a NutshellAuthor: Marcus ChownFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0571278418EAN: 9780571278411ISBN: 9780571278411Edition: MainPublisher: Faber & FaberGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Date: 09/04/2014Description: With wit, colour and clarity, What A Wonderful World quickly and painlessly brings us up to speed on how the world of the 21st century works. From economics to physics and biology to philosophy, Marcus Chown explains the complex forces that shape our universe. Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather than nothing?In What a Wonderful World, Marcus Chown, bestselling author of Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You and the Solar System app, uses his vast scientific knowledge and deep understanding of extremely complex processes to answer simple questions about the workings of our everyday lives. Lucid, witty and hugely entertaining, it explains the basics of our essential existence, stopping along the way to show us why the Atlantic is widening by a thumbs' length each year, how money permits trade to time travel why the crucial advantage humans had over Neanderthals was sewing and why we are all living in a giant hologram.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 195mmItem Length: 128mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 346gRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: What a Wonderful World
Title: What a Wonderful World
Subtitle: Life, the Universe and Everything in a Nutshell
ISBN-10: 0571278418
EAN: 9780571278411
ISBN: 9780571278411
Edition: Main
Release Date: 09/04/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: What a Wonderful World : Life, the Universe and Everything in a Nutshell
Number of Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Topic: General, Life Sciences / Biology, Physics / General
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2014
Genre: Science, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Author: Marcus. Chown
Item Length: 7.8 in
Item Width: 4.9 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
