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Almost everyone's guide to science : the universe, life and everything
- Title
- Almost everyone's guide to science : the universe, life and everything / John Gribbin with Mary Gribbin.
- Author
- Gribbin, John, 1946-
- Publication
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | Q162 .G84 1999 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Gribbin, Mary.
- Description
- 231 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "John Gribbin offers us a broad picture of scientific achievement at the end of the twentieth century. He describes the structure of particles within the atom, the origins of our own species, the birth of the universe, and much more, presenting science as a way of thinking about things, an honest view of the world in which no idea is accepted unless it is confirmed by experiment rather than wishful thinking."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Scientific notation -- Introduction: If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong -- 1. Atoms and elements -- 2. Inside the atom -- 3. Particles and fields -- 4. Chemistry -- 5. Molecules of life -- 6. Evolution -- 7. Our changing planet -- 8. Winds of change -- 9. The Sun and its family -- 10. The lives of the stars -- 11. The large and the small.
- ISBN
- 0300081014 (cl. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99026755
- OCLC
- 40624784
- ocm40624784
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries