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008 160825s2016 enka grb 001 0 eng d
020 $a9781473629257 (hbk.) :$cNT$1050
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
082 04$a500$222
100 1 $aLawton, Graham,$eauthor.
245 14$aThe origin of (almost) everything /$cwords by Graham Lawton ; illustrations by Jennifer Daniel ; introduction by Stephen Hawking.
260 $aLondon :$bJohn Murray,$c2016.
300 $a255 p. :$bcolour ill., colour maps ;$c26 cm.
500 $aNew Scientist.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aFrom what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck youup like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why your keyboard is laid out in QWERTY (it's not to make it easier to type) or whether the invention of the wheel was less important to civilisation than the bag (think about it). 'New Scientist' does. And now they want to take you on a whistlestop journey from the start of our universe to our planet and life to civilisation, knowledge ending up with technology.
650 0$aScience$vMiscellanea.
700 1 $aDaniel, Jennifer$c(Illustrator),$eillustrator.
700 1 $aHawking, Stephen,$d1942-$ewriter of introduction.
710 2 $aNew Scientist.