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The circle is more than just a shape—it is a symbol of existence. Science has traditionally favoured the straight line—cause and effect, past and future, input and output.
The Eternal Dance of Circles invites you to see the world differently: not as a machine, but as a dance of loops. From the spirals of galaxies to the feedback of thoughts, this book explores links between physics, biology and neuroscience to reveal the circular patterns that pulse through reality.
It’s science as a story, spun in circles, but no background in science is needed to read it—only wonder.
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Daydream Create Succeed is your creative partner for transforming vague ideas into bold realities. Using wit, science, psychology, stories and a touch of daydreaming, it demonstrates that wandering minds are not distractions but intentional features, explains how boredom fosters brilliance, why ‘unrealistic’ ideas spark innovation and shows how to turn invisible thoughts into visible breakthroughs.
It’s a book for anyone whose best ideas come when they are in the shower, walking or gazing out the window—a book about doing, the imaginative way.
For artists, entrepreneurs, inventors, students, thinkers or secret dreamers who dare to pursue what doesn’t yet exist.
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Science isn’t just about discovering answers; it’s about the glorious moment when the mind exclaims wow! and softly questions why? – all at once.
Science Interrobangs presents 25 of the most captivating questions science has ever dared to ask: each one a blend of wonder and curiosity, awe and enquiry. These extraordinary yet accessible explorations span from the quantum to the cosmic, from the origins of life to the frontiers of understanding. They transform physics, biology, and philosophy into a seamless dialogue: one that resonates with amazement and humility alike.
This book celebrates curiosity in its most thrilling form. Bring a cup of tea and join the long conversation between curiosity and the cosmos.
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As India seeks a new identity after the Raj, a wealthy businessman, Vijay Jaipal, is found dead in his mansion nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas—his eyes wide open and staring at the ceiling. Long before his death, Jaipal had risen from obscurity by entangling Terry Lonsdale, a gentle British irrigation engineer, in a web of subtle manipulation.
When Detective Inspector Shakeel Sagar arrives to investigate, he uncovers not just a crime but a tangled web of pain, longing and hidden truths. There is Anika Jaipal, the deceased man’s granddaughter, trembling on the brink of collapse and seeking solace in her devotion to a holy man whose past is shrouded in darkness. There is Nisha, scarred by that darkness. And then there is Joseph Chase, a scandal-sheet editor who wields secrets as a means of survival and a weapon for destruction.
As Sagar navigates their complex lives, he begins to realise that the murder is merely a superficial disturbance of something quieter and more enduring: the stories people tell themselves to endure their own emptiness and the fierce, impossible desire to hold on to what was never truly theirs.
Cuddling the Air is a psychological fugue disguised as a mystery—an exploration of memory, self-deception and the fragile, futile attempt to hold on to what is already slipping away.
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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, 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.
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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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First published in 2007 by Icon Books, UK, as Why Aren’t They Here: The Question of Life on Other Worlds
Is there anybody out there? Are other life forms lurking in outer space – or are they already here?
This calm, intelligent, and witty survey of humanity’s search for extraterrestrial life brilliantly outlines the historical, fictional, speculative, and emerging scientific opinions on what alien life might be like.
The fast-moving narrative examines facts, dispels myths and focuses on the possibilities lurking in space. In a popular and easy-to-read style, the author uses current research to speculate what life is like on exoplanets (or extra-solar planets), how we might communicate with it, and what Earth might seem like to visitors.
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