The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

Roger Penrose

The Road to Reality is the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. It assumes no particular specialist knowledge on the part of the reader, so t...

Tracks of the Tiger (#4 Mission Survival)

Bear Grylls

Mission: Survival. Location: The Indonesian jungle. Dangers: Lava flows; fearsome tigers; orang-utans. Young survival expert Beck Granger is supposed to be enjoying a holiday. But when a volcano erupts he is stranded and must flee from red-hot lava and molten rocks crashing out of the sky. If he is to s...