Brian Clegg, Author . Joseph Henry $27.95 (265p) ISBN 978-0-309-10112-7
Eadweard Muybridge "stopped time," according to science journalist Clegg, by training a dozen cameras on a trotting horse, to show its movement as no painter ever had. While devising this system of sequential photography, Muybridge realized...
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Brian Clegg, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-312-38547-7
The title of well-known science writer Clegg's newest is a bit of a teaser: as Clegg (A Brief History of Infinity
) himself admits: “we may never have a definitive answer to the question, “What came before the Big Bang?” But...
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Brian Clegg, St. Martin's, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-59894-5
Clegg (Before the Big Bang) explores how runaway science and other disasters might destroy humanity. He begins with the much discussed but highly speculative concerns over the operation of CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The collider is designed to...
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Brian Clegg, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-37157-9
Couching his discussion of mankind's next steps in the context of human evolution, and especially the past 100,000 years of our own ""directed enhancement,"" author and science writer Clegg (The God Effect, A Brief History of Infinity, etc.)...
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Brian Clegg. Totem, $16.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-184831241-8
If flying in an airplane has left you with questions, Clegg (Armageddon Science) will have the answers you're looking for and then some. Beginning at the airport, he takes the reader through the trip chronologically, explaining how security scans...
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Brian Clegg. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-61629-8
As the most familiar physical force in the universe, gravity may not seem exciting, but British science writer Clegg (Armageddon Science) shows how this “omnipresent” force—which strengthens bones and muscles and binds together planets, stars, and...
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Brian Clegg. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-01906-6
By examining numerous major studies of supposed psychic powers—including telepathy, telekinesis, remote viewing, and precognition—Clegg (Inflight Science) swiftly kicks the science out of his subtitle. To do so, he brings a careful and critical eye...
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Brian Clegg. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-03943-9
British science writer Clegg (Extra Sensory) reveals the technological and social challenges we must deal with in order to launch ourselves farther into the universe. Throughout history, explorers have sought knowledge, riches, and new lands to...
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Brian Clegg. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-05785-3
Science writer and novelist Clegg (Final Frontier) assesses how many of science fiction’s dreams have been realized, and examines which are likely and unlikely to become reality in the future. He touches on many mainstays of the genre—including...
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Brian Clegg. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-08104-9
Even the most math-phobic have nothing to fear in the latest from English science writer Clegg (Ten Billion Tomorrows): a lighthearted yet far-reaching look at the history of numbers and how we use them. From their earliest days, numbers haven’t...
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Brian Clegg, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (269p) ISBN 978-0-312-34341-5
Science writer Clegg (A Brief History of Infinity
), discussing the field of quantum mechanics, asserts that "[e]very experiment takes us a step closer to realizing just how strange the world is at the quantum level." Quantum entanglement is
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