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Giorgio Parisi, Simon Carnell (trans.)
From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of ground-breaking science - a #1 bestseller in Italy
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Giorgio Parisi
From a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of ground-breaking science
The world is shaped by complexity. In this enlightening book, Nobel Prize winner Giorgio…
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Carlo Rovelli
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into…
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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Sibilla Aleramo
A young Milanese wife is driven to leave her young son and husband by the latter’s suffocating domination.
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In this collection of writings, Carlo Rovelli follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage through science, literature, philosophy and politics.
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Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).
Paolo Cognetti
*Winner of the 2017 Strega Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize and the Prix Medicis etranger*The international sensation about two young Italian boys from different backgrounds who meet in the mountains…
An explanation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind.
The instant Sunday Times bestseller – a dazzling story of rebellion and science
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island…
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What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? From Aristotle to Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday to the Higgs boson, the author…
Simon Carnell
Described in colourful terms by early natural historians as the fastest, hairiest, most lascivious and most melancholy of mammals (and also one that changed sex, never closed its eyes and…
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The Number One bestselling author of The Order of Time is back with a stunning book about the enigma of quantum physics.
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Guido Tonelli
Originally published in Italian in 2019 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano, Italy, as Genesi.
A visionary scientific account of the seven ‘days’ of creation, from a lead player in the hunt for the Higgs boson.
Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian
Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator… This is…
