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'Will have you in stitches' The Irish Times 'He's almost certainly not the hero you ordered, but he's the hero we need right now' Dave Gorman 'I nearly stopped breathing twice as I was laughing so much. Glorious." Dom Joly 'Probably the funniest thing I've read this year' Rufus Hound Get ready for the online adventures of one man who just wants to make friends And one very annoyed world Based on the ingenious Sir Michael Twitter account, How to (Almost) Make Friends on the Internet is the funniest book you'll read this year. Whether it's offering his services as a Karate Lawyer or Funeral DJ, devising the world's worst plan to get a free haircut, or trying to buy a blue bucket that may or may not be for sale, Michael just wants to connect with people. The only problem is that people are slightly less enthusiastic about connecting with him and the results are utterly hilarious. Warning: you'll never think about adding someone called Michael to a group chat the same way ever again. 'Finally, someone has worked out a good use for social media and it's brilliantly, painfully funny' Iain Morris, Co-creator of The Inbetweeners 'Michael is the funniest human on the internet, bar none. Read his book, you cowards' James Felton, author of 52 Times Britain was a Bellend

What does it feel like to understand something about the universe that no one has ever known before? To predict real things using only equations scrawled on a blackboard - and why is mathematics is such a perfect model of our physical reality? This is the story of the scientists who, using mathematics, predicted the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible waves that course through the air, ripples in the fabric of space-time, subatomic particles and even antimatter - incredible predictions that, when tested by other scientists, turned out to be true. They are the magicians, conjuring testable descriptions of our reality where before there was only darkness. From the discovery of Neptune to Einstein's troublesome prediction of gravitational waves to the huge multinational project of proving Higgs' boson, Marcus Chown takes us on a vivid, witty and illuminating tour of science's most significant breakthroughs, and highlights the central, mysterious magic of science: its astonishing predictive power.