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IEE Wiring Regulations 17th Edition : (BS 7671: 2008)

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Review: I am about to order this. After reading the reviews I can't wait to get my hands on this and read it cover to cover to get all 17th,ed and ready for my next NICEIC inspection. It will be great, more regs, more questions, more trying to explain to customers. I may o....

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Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

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Review: Quantum is the unfinished story of the development of quantum mechanics. Unfinished? Yes, because the question which lies at the centre of the book is not yet resolved. The story starts in late Victorian times when classic physics seems close to completion, to b....

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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

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Description: Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help non-scientists understand fundamental questions of physics and our existence: where did the universe come from? How and why did ....

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Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope - and How to Find Them

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Review: I bought a telescope, and after a couple of weeks, it went into a cupboard to gather dust. For the uninitiated, there's an awfull lot of dull stuff in the sky. Then I was given this for my birthday. Suddenly, it turns out there are a profusion of binary stars th....

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A Briefer History of Time

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Review: I don't agree with Ken at all. OK so the book is short, but do all books have to be 500 page blockbusters? It is printed with large print and wide (not double) spacing, making it a joy to read. The 'illustrations' are incredible full colour graphics. The graphic sh....

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Guidance Note 3: Inspection and Testing (Guidance Notes for Bs 7671)

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Bang! The Complete History of the Universe

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Review: As soon as I saw this book and read the reviews I had to buy it, On receiving the book you can tell immediately a lot of hard work and thought has gone into it, the book itself is beautifully put together the front cover has a striking hologram on the front, it's a....

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Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer

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Review: when I recieved this book I was disappointed by the lack of detailed photographs or illustrations of the Antikythera device. This is not so much a book about the device, but the story of its discovery and recognition. The story is told as a series of biographies o....

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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

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Description: To write a book to explain in simple, non-mathematical terms what superstring theory is is not a simple task. In The Elegant Universe Brian Greene, a physicist who works in the area, does a very good job. Superstrings are a theory of particle physics that lays clai....

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Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

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Description: A series of anecdotes, such as are included in Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignore....

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