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Science Of Discworld

The Roundworld Project

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

AvTerry Pratchett,Ian Stewart,Jack Cohen

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When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: our Earth, a.k.a Roundworld, a place where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic.As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow, the Dean magically nudges Roundworld in an attempt to speed up evolution, knocking it off course and risking the birth of humanity. Realising they may have broken history, Ridcully, Ponder Stibbons, Rincewind and the Librarian embark on an expedition to our world to try to set everything back on track.Through this original Terry Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from science writers Cohen and Stewart) we discover how scientific progress works and learn about how life evolved alongside the wizards. We observe how our our understanding deepens through new discoveries and how the richness of a universe based on rules has led to a complex world where at least one species has tried to get a grip of what was going on.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-03-18
Mått138 x 222 x 32 mm
Vikt462 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieScience of Discworld
Antal sidor336
FörlagEbury Publishing
ISBN9781529997651

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Terry Pratchett (Author) Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.www.terrypratchettbooks.comIan Stewart (Author) Professor Ian Stewart is the author of many popular science books. He is the mathematics consultant for New Scientist and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. He was awarded the Michael Faraday Prize for furthering the public understanding of science, and in 2001 became a Fellow of the Royal Society.Jack Cohen (Author) Dr Jack Cohen is an internationally-known reproductive biologist, and lives in Newent, Gloucestershire. Jack has a laboratory in his kitchen, helps couples get pregnant by referring them to colleagues, invents biologically realistic aliens for science fiction writers and, in his spare time, throws boomerangs. Jack, who has more letters to his name than can be repeated here, writes, lectures, talks and campaigns to promote public awareness of science, particularly biology. He is mostly retired.