Ka-boom! : The Science of Extremes by David Darling

Ka-boom! : The Science of Extremes by David DarlingWhats the brightest light on Earth? The coldest corner of the universe? The blackest material ever made? The most poisonous substance in nature?You will learn something new in every chapter, on every page and probably in every paragraph. Hugely entertaining. Kit Yates, author of The Maths of Life and DeathKa boom! probes extremes of size and speed, depth and density, and reveals the stickiest, sweetest, smelliest and nastiest substances known to

understand yourself better and move on

Stay True is an intimate memoir about growing up and moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging

' Tracy Borman

Ian McEwan

You may discover to your surprise that the people who are most at peace with money are the ones who walk nimbly between having too little and having too much

He wrote openly about the body and about desire in a way that completely broke with convention and which paved the way for a completely new kind of poetry

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the erudition of the scholar

THE OFFICIAL PREQUEL TO THE GROUNDBREAKING DUNE

and a splendid story-teller’ Charles Foster

full-colour photos and vintage line drawings