Zoom : how everything moves : from atoms and galaxies to blizzards and bees, Bob Berman

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Zoom : how everything moves : from atoms and galaxies to blizzards and bees, Bob Berman

Title remainder

how everything moves : from atoms and galaxies to blizzards and bees

Statement of responsibility

Bob Berman

Instantiates

• Zoom : how everything moves : from atoms and galaxies to blizzards and bees

Publication

• New York, NY, Little, Brown and Company, 2014

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• April's hidden mysteries : deciphering the secrets of spring
• Part II.
• The pace quickens. The gang that deciphered the wind : a desert dweller's airy spells last for a millennium, while two oddballs dodge the Inquisition
• Blown away : a fanatical mariner takes the world to the edge of violence
• Falling : enigmas of the most far-reaching force
• Rush hour for every body : revelations gained by looking within
• Brooks and breakers : Earth's greatest assets are liquid
• Invisible companions : the odd entities zooming through our bodies
• The stop-action murderer : and his battles with the ephemeral
• Barriers of light and sound : a thirty-century quest that began with thunder
• Prologue : damage and escape
• Meteor in the kitchen : and other peculiar end points
• Infinite speed : when light's velocity just won't get you there
• Sleepy village in an exploding universe : back where it all began
• Appendix 1. Table of selected natural speeds
• Appendix 2. A note on accuracy and choice of units
• Part I.
• Figuring out the motion picture. The growth of nothingness : journeys in an exploding universe
• Slow as molasses : how we learned to love lethargy
• Runaway poles : they're really shifting : are we toast?
• The man who only loved sand : and the curious phenomena of the Atacama Desert
• Down the drain : weird goings-on at the Equator, and the Frenchmen who died young
• Frozen : the unhurried riddles of snow and ice

Control code

ocn860757083

Dimensions

25 cm

Edition

First edition.

Extent

viii, 323 pages

Isbn

9780316217408

Lccn

2014937386

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Other physical details

illustrations

Record ID

• u151238
• fa
• ha

System control number

• (Sirsi) o860757083
• (OCoLC)860757083
• (Sirsi) b1294057