Key Stage 3 Recommended Reads

Unlocking the Universe by Stephen and Lucy Hawking

Embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this beautiful collection of up-to-the-minute essays, mind-blowing facts and out-of-this-world colour photographs, by the world's leading scientists including Professor Stephen Hawking himself.

 

 

 

 

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

 A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. As a result, A Short History of Nearly Everything reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.

 

 

 

Is Anybody Out There? by Dara O'Briain

Genuinely qualified space expert, Dara O Briain, is here with all the answers to help you sort your science fiction from your science fact. Includes: • how life begins in the first place • how Earth was created • whether aliens might exist elsewhere in the Solar System • the search for other planets like our own • how we could possibly ever get there and . . . • would we really meet aliens? Alongside this runs the hilarious, but not very true story of Clara and her cat, Sputnik, who will join you on the journey of the book to help take you from novice alien-hunter to bona-fide space expert, with a brilliant final twist! 

 

Key Stage 4 Recommended Reading

Ask an Astronaut: My Guide to Life in Space by Tim Peak

Ask an Astronaut is Tim’s personal guide to life in space, based on his historic Principia mission, and the thousands of questions he has been asked since his return to Earth. Accessible, in-depth, and written with his characteristic warmth, Tim shares his thoughts on every aspect of his mission. From training to launch, from his historic spacewalk to re-entry, he reveals for readers of all ages the cutting-edge science behind his ground-breaking experiments, and the wonders of day-to-day life on board the International Space Station.

 

 

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. And now, as we face potentially catastrophic changes here on Earth - from climate change to dwindling natural resources to the threat of artificial super-intelligence - Stephen Hawking turns his attention to the most urgent issues for humankind.

 

 

 

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by the most brilliant teacher by Richard P.Feynman

It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. In these classic lessons, Feynman introduces the general reader to the following topics: atoms, basic physics, energy, gravitation, quantum mechanics, and the relationship of physics to other topics. Filled with wonderful examples and clever illustrations, Six Easy Pieces is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of physics by one of the most admired and accessible physicists of modern times.