{"product_id":"9780571278442","title":"Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 140 pages, two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of  the biggest questions in physics - in the form of 10 or so tweets per  page. They set themselves the challenge of boiling down what is  essential on each subject into sentences of 140 characters, and the  results are both entertaining and brilliantly informative. Not a word is  wasted. The reader is not patronized and learns something on every  page. If only all science writing could be so precise and so economical.      \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly science writers of a very high calibre could  achieve such compression. Marcus Chown - 'the finest cosmology writer of  our day' (Matt Ridley) - has known the Dutch writer Govert Schilling  for twenty years. Schilling pioneered this very swift form of  explanation in a Dutch newspaper, and suggested to Chown that they  collaborate on bringing it to a wider audience. \u003ci\u003eTweeting the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e is unlike any other science book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107556802800,"sku":"9780571278442","price":11.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571278442_p0.jpg?v=1763719739","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571278442","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}