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Language
English
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In this book Bill Bryson explores the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer and attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if...
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Publisher
[Science Service]
Pub. Date
[c1966]
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Two Trees
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
vi, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Science & Philosophy: A strange and fascinating journey of ideas laced with wry humor and unforgettable images. The book introduces "the quincunx," a simple geometric pattern that somehow opens up a completely novel way of thinking about anything and everything. With this one tiny idea in hand the author bridges the gap that normally separates physics from metaphysics, matter from consciousness, body from mind, Western from Eastern thought. The narrative...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World
Pub. Date
p2007
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (13.25 hrs.) : digital ; 9 x 6 cm.
Language
English
Description
Most of the profound questions we will explore in our lives--evolution, global warming, stem cells--have to do with science. So do a lot of everyday things, like our ice cream melting and our coffee getting cold and our vacuum cleaner running (or not). What does our liver do when we eat a caramel? How does the horse demonstrate evolution at work? Are we really made of stardust? (Yes, we are.) In The Canon, Lewis Thomas meets Lewis Carroll in a book...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A delightful intellectual feast from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time One of the world's most prominent physicists and fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. His bestselling books have introduced millions of readers to the wonders of modern physics and his singular perspective on the cosmos. This new collection of essays reveals a curious intellect always on the move. Rovelli...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books Canada
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
366 pages
Language
English
Description
From one of the world's most engaging science journalists, a groundbreaking and wonder-filled look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways.
Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality.
We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence.
And we are...
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