November 2013 Non-Fiction Book of the Month.
A brilliant book that makes you realise, with more than a hint of humour, how much you don’t know. Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? to name but a few. Dip into - or read the whole thing and really impress your friends.
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.
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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.
What a Wonderful World One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff features in the following genres: Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Biographies & Autobiographies, Books of the Month, Popular Science, Recommendations, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Science: general issues, Mathematics and Science
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What a Wonderful World One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff was written by Marcus Chown and published by Faber & Faber
