Rutherford and Fry’s Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): new from the stars of BBC Radio 4 - Softcover

Rutherford, Adam; Fry, Hannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552176710 ISBN 13: 9780552176712

Verlag: Penguin, 2022

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Explores just about every area of life' DAILY MAIL

'If only Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us, all the time . . . The pair have such a gift for making life, numbers and the forces at work in the universe all the richer, stranger, funnier and more marvellous.' Stephen Fry

In Rutherford and Fry's comprehensive guidebook, they tell the complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it - skipping over some of the boring parts.

This is a celebration of the weirdness of the cosmos, the strangeness of humans and the fact that amid all the mess, we can somehow make sense of life.

Our brains have evolved to tell us all sorts of things that feel intuitively right but just aren't true: the world looks flat, the stars seem fixed in the heavenly firmament, a day is 24 hours... This book is crammed full of tales of how stuff really works. With the power of science, Rutherford and Fry show us how to bypass our monkey-brains, taking us on a journey from the origin of time and space, via planets, galaxies, evolution, the dinosaurs, all the way into our minds, and wrestling with some truly head-scratching questions that only science can answer:

What is time, and where does it come from?
Why are animals the size and shape they are?
How horoscopes work (Spoiler: they don't, but you think they do)
Does my dog love me?
Why nothing is truly round?
Do you need your eyes to see?

'A wonderfully engaging blend of wit, enthusiasm, clarity and knowledge.' Bill Bryson

'Like the universe itself, this book is multi-faceted, surprising and full of wonders. It's also funny, wise and exceedingly brainy. You really owe it to yourself to read it.' Tim Harford, author of How To Make The World Add Up

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Adam Rutherford (Author)
Adam Rutherford is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and geneticist at University College London. His books include A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Book of Humans, and the Sunday Times bestseller How to Argue with a Racist. He has written and presented numerous documentaries for BBC radio and television, including Inside Science and The Cell. Adam has also worked as a science advisor on many films, including the Oscar-winning Ex Machina (2015) and Annihilation (2018).

Hannah Fry (Author)
Hannah Fry is Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at Cambridge University. She is loved for her joyful ability to bring complex ideas to life with her signature sass, wit and warmth. Her broadcasting work includes The Rest is Science (Goalhanger) AI Confidential with Hannah Fry (BBC Two) The Future With Hannah Fry (Bloomberg - Emmy winning) The Secret Genius of Modern Life (BBC Two) Infinite Explorer (Nat Geo) and Curious Cases (BBC Radio 4) as well as the Grierson winning Making Sense of Cancer (BBC Two). She has written numerous articles for The New Yorker and is the author of multiple bestsellers including A Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything, The Mathematics of Love and the critically acclaimed Hello World. In 2026 she was selected as one of Time magazine's top 100 Creators and was awarded the Leelavati Prize for outstanding contributions to increasing public understanding of mathematics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0552176710
• ISBN 13: 9780552176712
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Penguin Books Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.uk; ; One Embassy Gardens, 8 Viaduct Gardens; London; SW11 7BW; Vereinigtes Königreich
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