13 Things That Don't Make Sense by Michael Brooks

13 Things That Don't Make Sense by Michael Brooks

Is 96 percent of the universe missing? Was the 1977 signal from outer space a transmission from an alien civilization? This book presents thirteen modern-day anomalies that may become tomorrow's breakthroughs. Spanning fields from chemistry to cosmology, psychology to physics, it captures the excitement and controversy of the scientific unknown.

Fascinating.. Brooks reawakens us to the astonishing fact of our mere existence, the strangeness of the world around us, and the astonishing amount that science has yet to discover -- Christopher Hart * Sunday Times *
Outstanding non-fiction reading * Esquire *
Impressively knowledgeable, articulate -- Christopher Hirst * Independent *
An admirably clear and clever writer * Evening Standard *
Proof that science gets interesting when things get weird * Weekend Australian *

Michael Brooks is the author of the bestselling non-fiction title 13 Things That Don't Make Sense and Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science. He holds a PhD in quantum physics, is a consultant at New Scientist and writes a weekly column for the New Statesman

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ISBN 13	9781861976475
ISBN 10	186197647X
Title	13 Things That Don't Make Sense
Author	Michael Brooks
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	2010-02-04
Number of pages	256
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