'Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.' Karin SlaughterWhether brand new or steeped in history, real or imagined, libraries feature in everyone's lives. In memoirs, essays and stories that are funny, moving, visionary or ins
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Easy, enlightening and mind-stretching, here are the answers to the 20 biggest questions of quantum physics, relativity and our attempts to grasp the true nature of reality.
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