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  • Published: 15 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780718188290
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 56
  • RRP: $24.99

Bubbles: A Ladybird Expert Book




A clear, surprising and entertaining introduction to bubbles for adult readers

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Bubbles is a clear, surprising and entertaining introduction to the science of bubbles.

Bubbles are beautiful, ephemeral, fun, fragile, jolly and slightly unpredictable. We're all familiar with them, but we don't often ask what they actually are.

The great scientists of the Western world - Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Lord Rayleigh and more - studied bubbles seriously. They recognised that they had a lot to say about the nature of the physical world, and they poked, prodded and listened to find out what it was. In the years since, we've learned that this bulbous arrangement of liquid and gas does things that neither the gas or the liquid could do by itself.

Written by the celebrated physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski, Bubbles explores how everything from the way drinks taste to the Earth's temperature are influenced by bubbles.

This book has a message: never underestimate a bubble!

  • Published: 15 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780718188290
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 56
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Helen Czerski

Helen Czerski was born in Manchester. She is a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at University College London. As a physicist she studies the bubbles underneath breaking waves in the open ocean to understand their effects on weather and climate.

Helen regularly presents BBC programmes on physics, the ocean and the atmosphere – recent series include Colour: The Spectrum of Science, Orbit, Operation Iceberg, Super Senses, Dara O’Briain’s Science Club, as well as programmes on bubbles, the sun and our weather. She is also a columnist for Focus magazine, shortlisted for PPA columnist of the year in 2014, and has written numerous articles for national newspapers. Helen is the author of the bestselling Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life.

She lives in London.

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Praise for Bubbles: A Ladybird Expert Book

The artwork is gloriously retro, echoing the original Ladybird house style but containing completely up to date information.

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