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100 WAYS
TO BE
100% YOU

Life isn’t solely made up of majestic moments. It encompasses the comforting tick of daily rituals, the ordinary miracles of breathing, walking, thinking, laughing, worrying, daydreaming, learning, creating, exploring, empathising, reflecting, feeling and simply being.

This book offers a delightfully scientific stroll through those everyday moments. There are no mantras or manifestos—just short, sharp, simple and spirited stories supported by research rather than reverence. Consider it your field guide to being 100% you.

Read it from cover to cover, curled up on the couch, or dip into it randomly whenever you have a spare moment. It is an invaluable source for anyone interested in learning about things they do.

No lab coat or scientific background is required to enjoy these pages. Just bring your curiosity—and perhaps a cup of tea.

When a young girl witnesses the brutal, cold-blooded murder of her parents by a Nazi commandant in a concentration camp, a fierce desire for vengeance consumes her. She dreams of seeing two bullet holes in the commandant’s forehead, his cruel face drenched in a cascade of crimson blood. 

Her odyssey of revenge is not a tale of myth and legend. There are no stormy seas or enchanted traps—only the relentless pursuit of a monstrous Nazi who lurks in plain sight, first as a revered holy man in India and then as an unassuming teacher in Australia. 

Years later, as she watches blood trickle from two precise holes in the monster’s forehead, one question lingers: who robbed her of her lifelong pursuit of justice?

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This book provides a refreshing walk-through of science from the 6th century BCE to the 21st century. It explains 200 hypotheses, theories, laws, principles, equations, rules, and other things that form the essence of science. The ideas are arranged in chronological order, though an alphabetical list is also included.

It is the perfect essence of scientific knowledge in one easy-to-read book. Read it from cover to cover, curled up on the couch, or dip into it randomly when you have a spare moment. It’s an invaluable source for anyone interested in science.

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Updated 2024 edition of the most popular book on the riddle of the incredible Siberian explosion of 1908, The Mystery of the Tunguska Fireball, first published by Icon Books, UK, in 2005.

At about 7:15 a.m. on June 30, 1908, a massive fireball exploded in the skies over Siberia. With force a thousand times greater than the Hiroshima atomic bomb, it levelled over 2,000 square kilometres of the remote Tunguska forest—an area larger than metropolitan London—sending a mushroom cloud towering into the stratosphere.

What was it? A wayward black hole, a crashing comet, a rogue asteroid, an exotic rock of antimatter or mirror matter, a methane gas blast from below, an alien spacecraft, a laser beam fired by extraterrestrials, or an early experiment in nuclear physics that got out of hand?

Nearly a century and a quarter on, this grand dame of science mysteries still fascinates scientists and charlatans alike.

Whichever way you look, the Tunguska event is a captivating journey in serious science, speculative science and science fiction. This informative and engaging book invites you to explore that journey and perhaps glimpse the truth behind this enigmatic explosion.

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