The celebrated physicist, Richard Feynman, presents the essentials of physics for the general reader. Topics explored include atoms, the relation of physics to the other sciences, the theory of gravitation and quantum behaviour. "Richard Feynman was to the second half of the century what Einstein was to the first: the perfect example of scientific genius" Frank McLynn, "Independent". Line illus. "Six Not-So-Easy Pieces" appears this month in Allen Lane hardback.