What a Wonderful World: Life, the Universe and Everything in a Nutshell - Couverture souple

Chown, Marcus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571278418 ISBN 13 : 9780571278411

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2014

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

A pretty wonderful book. (Richard Dawkins)

'Reading a well-written popular science book is one of the great pleasures of modern times, and this guided tour through life, the universe and everything affords that pleasure in abundance.' (Brandon Robshaw Independent)

Crammed with brain-boggling facts. (The Mirror) --The Mirror

A brilliant book that makes you realise how much you don't know. (Love Reading) --Love Reading

In this thought-provoking book, Chown endeavours to deepen our understanding of the existence of a wide range of things including time, brain, civilization, capitalism, communism and quantum theory ... He succeeds marvelously ... Lucidly written and hugely entertaining this is a great read. (Good Book Guide) --Good Book Guide

Biographie de l'auteur :

Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is currently cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist. He is the author of the bestselling Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, The Never Ending Days of Being Dead and The Magic Furnace. He also wrote The Solar System, the bestselling app for iPad, which won the Future Book Award 2011.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0571278418
• ISBN 13: 9780571278411
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448