| Description |
416 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 46.Vitamins -- 47.Viruses -- 48.Rocket science -- 49.Photons -- 50.Special relativity -- 51.Earth's core -- 52.Radiometric dating -- 53.The Burgess Shale -- 54.Superconductors -- 55.Continental drift -- 56.General relativity -- 57.Insulin -- 58.Wave-particle duality -- 59.Schrodiger's equation -- 60.Penicillin -- 61.Game theory -- 62.Hubble's law -- 63.Big Bang theory -- 64.Antimatter -- 65.Dark matter -- 66.Ecology -- 67.Radar -- 68.Computers -- 69.Splitting the atom -- 70.Black holes -- 71.DNA carries genes -- 72.Semiconductor electronics -- 73.Information theory -- 74.Quantum electrodynamics -- 75.The double helix -- 76.Miller-Urey experiment -- 77.Transplant surgery -- 78.Lasers -- 79.Parallel universes -- 80.Chaos theory -- 81.Quasars -- 82.Higgs boson -- 83.Cognitive psychology -- 84.String theory -- 85.Genetic engineering -- 86.Hawking radiation -- 87.Death of the dinosaurs -- 88.Scanning tunnelling microscope -- 89.Quantum entanglement -- |
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Contents note continued: 90.Fullerenes -- 91.Gene therapy -- 92.Functional MRI scanners -- 93.Evidence-based medicine -- 94.Extrasolar planets -- 95.Fermat's last theorem -- 96.Cloning -- 97.Deep Blue beats Kasparov -- 98.Human genome -- 99.Large Hadron Collider -- 100.Synthetic life |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Counting -- 2.Geometry -- 3.Curvature of the Earth -- 4.Astrometry -- 5.Algebra -- 6.Aviation -- 7.Scientific method -- 8.Heliocentric solar system -- 9.Human anatomy -- 10.Kepler's laws -- 11.Astronomical telescope -- 12.Calculus -- 13.Newton's Principia -- 14.Linnaean taxonomy -- 15.Kinetic theory -- 16.Principle of least action -- 17.Galaxies -- 18.Bayes's theorem -- 19.Combustion -- 20.Photosynthesis -- 21.Deep time -- 22.Conservation laws -- 23.Vaccination -- 24.Electricity -- 25.Wave theory of light -- 26.Atomic theory -- 27.Molecules -- 28.Navier-Stokes equations -- 29.Greenhouse effect -- 30.Ice ages -- 31.Cell theory -- 32.Anaesthetics -- 33.Second law of thermodynamics -- 34.Foucault's pendulum -- 35.Natural selection -- 36.Spectroscopy -- 37.Maxwell's equations -- 38.Germ theory -- 39.Mendel's laws of inheritance -- 40.Antiseptics -- 41.Periodic table -- 42.Out of Africa -- 43.Nervous system -- 44.X-rays -- 45.Radioactivity -- |
| Summary |
This book presents a series of clear and concise essays that explain the fundamentals of some of the most exciting and important science concepts you really need to know |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Discoveries in science -- History -- Popular works.
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Discoveries in science.
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Science -- History -- Popular works.
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Science -- History.
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| ISBN |
0857385003 (paperback) |
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9780857385000 (paperback) |
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