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Magic Universe : The Oxford Guide to Modern Science by Nigel Stuart Calder
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
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- “This book and dust jacket are both in Good condition as shown in the photographs.”
- Subject
- Games & Puzzles
- ISBN
- 9780198507925
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198507925
ISBN-13
9780198507925
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2881580
Product Key Features
Book Title
Magic Universe : the Oxford Guide to Modern Science
Number of Pages
768 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, History
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2.4 in
Item Weight
49.4 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-297022
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Here's evidence of a steady hand, a cool nerve and a clear sense of what matters...Nigel Calder is a science writer with a superb record and immense experience...Dip and dart., 'Magic Universe is a marvellous read...it can be enjoyed like ahigh-quality magazine'Mark Ridley, Times Literary Supplement, "The ideal compendium for non-scientists of any age."--Sunday Times "A marvelous read...it can be enjoyed like a high-quality magazine."--Mark Ridley, Times Literary Supplement "He is really exceptional in his energy, his range of comprehension, and his quality as a writer.... Nigel Calder remains supreme in his range and depth...he goes to immense trouble to get things right, and also takes pains with the clarity and elegance of his writing."--Sir Martin Rees, FRS, Astronomer Royal, "The ideal compendium for non-scientists of any age."--Sunday Times "A marvelous read...it can be enjoyed like a high-quality magazine."--Mark Ridley,Times Literary Supplement "He is really exceptional in his energy, his range of comprehension, and his quality as a writer.... Nigel Calder remains supreme in his range and depth...he goes to immense trouble to get things right, and also takes pains with the clarity and elegance of his writing."--Sir Martin Rees, FRS, Astronomer Royal, 'A must for every sixth-form and student of science, it is also the idealcompendium for non-scientists of any age who are trying to keep abreast.'John Cornwell, Sunday Times, 'A must for every sixth-form and student of science, it is also the ideal compendium for non-scientists of any age who are trying to keep abreast.'John Cornwell, Sunday Times, In this compendium he deals seriously yet entertainingly with just about every sicientific subject you can imagine, and many that you cannot...a solid reference source for many years to come., 'He is really exceptional in his energy, his range of comprehension, and his quality as a writer. . . . Nigel Calder remains supreme in his range and depth . . . he goes to immense trouble to get things right, and also takes pains with the clarity and elegance of his writing.'Sir Martin Rees, FRS, Astronomer Royal, Example of one entry, giving headword, subheading, side headings within entry, end cross references: Cell Traffic: Zip codes, stepping-stones and a new awareness of life's complexity A hubble of bubbles in Cell City Protein porters and fatty rafts Goodbye to reductionism For closely related themes see Cell Division, Protein Synthesis, and Protein Function. For perspectives on the organization of cells with different functions, see Embryos, Immunity and Brains. Entries for one letter of alphabet: Galaxies Galaxy clusters Gamma-ray bursts Genes Genomes Geosciences Global enzymes Global warming Grammar Gravitational waves Gravity, "The ideal compendium for non-scientists of any age."--Sunday Times"A marvelous read...it can be enjoyed like a high-quality magazine."--Mark Ridley, Times Literary Supplement"He is really exceptional in his energy, his range of comprehension, and his quality as a writer.... Nigel Calder remains supreme in his range and depth...he goes to immense trouble to get things right, and also takes pains with the clarity and elegance of his writing."--Sir Martin Rees, FRS, Astronomer Royal, 'Magic Universe is a marvellous read...it can be enjoyed like a high-quality magazine'Mark Ridley, Times Literary Supplement, 'He is really exceptional in his energy, his range of comprehension, andhis quality as a writer. . . . Nigel Calder remains supreme in his range anddepth . . . he goes to immense trouble to get things right, and also takes painswith the clarity and elegance of his writing.'Sir Martin Rees, FRS, Astronomer Royal, A must for every student of science, and the ideal compendium for non-scientists of any age trying to keep abreast.
Dewey Decimal
509/.04
Table Of Content
INTRODUCTION: Welcome to the spider's webOver 130 articles, from...ALCOHOL: Genetic revelations of when yeast invented boozeALTRUISM AND AGGRESSION: Looking for the origins of those human alternativesANTIMATTER: Does the coat that Sakharov made really explain its absence?ARABIDOPSIS: The modest weed that gave plant scientists the big pictureASTRONAUTICS: Will interstellar pioneers be overtaken by their grandchildren?BERNAL'S LADDER: PointersBIG BANG: The inflationary Universe's sleight-of-handBIODIVERSITY: The mathematics of co-existenceBIOLOGICAL CLOCKS: Molecular machinery that governs life's routinesBIOSPHERE FROM SPACE: 'I want to do the whole world'BITS AND QUBITS: The digital world and its looming quantum shadowBLACK HOLES: The awesome engines of quasars and active galaxiesBRAIN IMAGES: What do all the vivid movies really mean?BRAIN RHYTHMS: The mathematics of the beat we think toBRAIN WIRING: How do all those nerve connections know where to go?BUCKYBALLS AND NANOTUBES: Doing very much more with very much less...to...SMALLPOX: The dairymaid's blessing and the general's curseSOLAR WIND: How it creates the heliosphere in which we liveSPACE WEATHER: Why it is now more troublesome than in the old daysSPARTICLES: A wished-for superworld of exotic matter and forcesSPEECH: A gene that makes us more eloquent than chimpanzeesSTARBURSTS: Galactic traffic accidents and stellar baby boomsSTARS: Hearing them sing and sizing them upSTEM CELLS: Tissue engineering, natural and medicalSUN'S INTERIOR: How sound waves made our mother star transparentSUPERATOMS, SUPERFLUIDS AND SUPERCONDUCTORS: The march of the boson armiesSUPERSTRINGS: Retuning the cosmic imaginationTIME MACHINES: The biggest issue in contemporary physics?TRANSGENIC CROPS: For better or worse, a planetary experiment has begunTREE OF LIFE: Promiscuous bacteria and the course of evolutionUNIVERSE: 'It must have known we were coming'VOLCANIC EXPLOSIONS: Where will the next big one be?
Synopsis
Magic Universe brings current science to the general reader in an imaginative and wholly original way. It offers an exhilarating tour of the horizons of knowledge, from quarks to linguistics, climate change to cloning, and chaos to superstrings, presented as a set of self-contained stories. The stories are arranged as A - Z entries, but this is not a conventional encyclopedia. Each story unfolds in a totally unpredictable way, seamlessly crossing disciplines, and told in engaging, accessible language. Here is a celebration of the reunion of the many subdivisions of science now in progress. 'The magic of the Universe reveals itself in the interconnections', Calder tells us. 'A repertoire of tricks let loose in the Big Bang will make you a planet or a parakeet. In some sense only dimly understood so far, the magic works for our benefit overall, whilst it amazes and puzzles us in the particulars. Natural conjuring that links comets with life, genomes with continental drift, iron ore with dementia, and particle physics with cloudiness, mocks the specialists.'The stories can be read and enjoyed in any order. Perhaps you will start with Alcohol - 'genetic revelations of when yeast invented booze'. Or Prions -'from cannibals and mad cows to new modes of heredity and evolution'. Or maybe Higgs bosons - 'the multi-billion-dollar quest for the mass-maker'. Wherever you begin - and you can begin anywhere - you can be sure of an engrossing and a surprising voyage of discovery. As Nigel Calder puts it, the best of science is romantically exciting, and also illuminating - so why trouble busy readers with anything that isn't?, As a prolific author, BBC commentator, and magazine editor, Nigel Calder has spent a lifetime spotting and explaining the big discoveries in all branches of science. In Magic Universe, he draws on his vast experience to offer readers a lively, far-reaching look at modern science in all its glory, shedding light on the latest ideas in physics, biology, chemistry, medicine, astronomy, and many other fields. What is truly magical about Magic Universe is Calder's incredible breadth. Migrating birds, light sensors in the human eye, black holes, antimatter, buckyballs and nanotubes--with exhilarating sweep, Calder can range from the strings of a piano to the superstrings of modern physics, from Pythagoras's theory of musical pitch to the most recent ideas about atoms and gravity and a ten-dimensional universe--all in one essay. The great virtue of this wide-ranging style--besides its liveliness and versatility--is that it allows Calder to illuminate how the modern sciences intermingle and cross-fertilize one another. Indeed, whether discussing astronauts or handedness or dinosaurs, Calder manages to tease out hidden connections between disparate fields of study. What is most wondrous about the "magic universe" is that one can begin with stellar dust and finish with life itself. Drawing on interviews with more than 200 researchers, from graduate students to Nobel prize-winners, Magic Universe takes us on a high-spirited tour through the halls of science, one that will enthrall everyone interested in science, whether a young researcher in a high-tech lab or an amateur buff sitting in the comfort of an armchair., As a prolific author, BBC commentator, and magazine editor, Nigel Calder has spent a lifetime spotting and explaining the big discoveries in all branches of science. In Magic Universe , he draws on his vast experience to offer readers a lively, far-reaching look at modern science in all its glory, shedding light on the latest ideas in physics, biology, chemistry, medicine, astronomy, and many other fields. What is truly magical about Magic Universe is Calder's incredible breadth. Migrating birds, light sensors in the human eye, black holes, antimatter, buckyballs and nanotubes--with exhilarating sweep, Calder can range from the strings of a piano to the superstrings of modern physics, from Pythagoras's theory of musical pitch to the most recent ideas about atoms and gravity and a ten-dimensional universe--all in one essay. The great virtue of this wide-ranging style--besides its liveliness and versatility--is that it allows Calder to illuminate how the modern sciences intermingle and cross-fertilize one another. Indeed, whether discussing astronauts or handedness or dinosaurs, Calder manages to tease out hidden connections between disparate fields of study. What is most wondrous about the "magic universe" is that one can begin with stellar dust and finish with life itself. Drawing on interviews with more than 200 researchers, from graduate students to Nobel prize-winners, Magic Universe takes us on a high-spirited tour through the halls of science, one that will enthrall everyone interested in science, whether a young researcher in a high-tech lab or an amateur buff sitting in the comfort of an armchair.
LC Classification Number
Q125
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