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- catalog abstract ""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."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Oxford guide to modern science".
- catalog contributor b13028505.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""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."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Alcohol: Genetic revelations of when yeast invented booze -- Altruism and aggression: Looking for the origins of those human alternatives -- Antimatter: Does the coat that Sakharov made really explain its absence? -- Arabidopsis: The modest weed that gave plant scientists the big picture -- Astronautics: Will interstellar pioneers be overtaken by their grandchildren? -- Bernal's ladder: Pointers -- Big Bang: The inflationary Universe's sleight-of-hand -- Biodiversity: The mathematics of co-existence -- Biological clocks: Molecular machinery that governs life's routines -- Biosphere from space: 'I want to do the whole world' -- Bits and qubits: The digital world and its looming quantum shadow -- Black holes: The awesome engines of quasars and active galaxies -- Brain images: What do all the vivid movies really mean? -- Brain rhythms: The mathematics of the beat we think to -- Brain wiring: How do all those nerve connections know where to go? -- ".
- catalog description "Buckyballs and nanotubes: Doing very much more with very much less -- Cambrian explosion: Easy come and easy go, among the early animals -- Carbon cycle: Exactly how does it interact with the global climate? -- Cell cycle: How and when one living entity becomes two -- Cell death: How life makes suicide part of the evolutionary deal -- Cell traffic: Zip codes, stepping-stones and the recognition of life's complexity -- Cereals: Genetic boosts for the most cosseted inhabitants of the planet -- Chaos: The butterfly versus the ladybird, and the Mercury Effect -- Climate change: Shall we freeze or fry? -- Cloning: Why doing without sex carries a health warning -- Comets and asteroids: Snowy dirtballs and their rocky cousins -- Continents and supercontinents: Collage-making since the world began -- Cosmic rays: Where do the punchiest particles come from? -- Cryosphere: Ice sheets, sea-ice and mountain glaciers tell a confusing tale -- ".
- catalog description "Dark energy: Revealing the power of an accelerating Universe -- Dark matter: A wind of wimps or the machinations of machos? -- Dinosaurs: Why small was beautiful in the end -- Discovery: Why the top experts are usually wrong -- Disorderly materials: The wonders of untidy solids and tidy liquids -- DNA fingerprinting: From parentage cases to facial diversity -- Earth: Why is it so very different from all the other planets of the Sun? -- Earthquakes: Why they may never be accurately predicted, or prevented -- Earthshine: How bright clouds reveal climate change, and perhaps drive it -- Earth system: Pointers -- Eco-evolution: New perspectives on variability and survival -- Electroweak force: How Europe recovered its fading glory in particle physics -- Elements: A legacy from stellar puffs, collapsing giants and exploding dwarfs -- El Nino: When a warm sea wobbles the global weather -- Embryos: 'Think of the control genes operating a chemical computer' -- ".
- catalog description "Energy and mass: The cosmic currency of Einstein's most famous equation -- Evolution: Why Darwin's natural selection was never the whole story -- Extinctions: Were they nearly all due to bolts from the blue? -- Extraterrestrial life: Could we be all alone in the Milky Way? -- Extremophiles: Creatures that thrive in unexpected places -- Flood basalts: Can impacting comets set continents in motion? -- Flowering: Colourful variations on a theme of genetic pathways -- Forces: Pointers -- Galaxies: Looking for Juno's milk in the infant Universe -- Gamma-ray bursts: New black holes being fashioned every day -- Genes: Words of wisdom from our ancestors, in four colours -- Genomes in general: The whole history of life in a chemical code -- Global enzymes: Why they now fascinate geologists, chemists and biologists -- Grammar: Does it stand between computers and the dominion of the world? -- Gravitational waves: Shaking the Universe with weighty news -- ".
- catalog description "Gravity: Did Uncle Albert really get it right? -- Handedness: Mysteries of left versus right that won't go away -- Higgs bosons: The multi-billion-dollar quest for the mass-maker -- High-speed travel: The common sense of special relativity -- Hopeful monsters: How they herald a revolution in evolution -- Hotspots: Are there really chimneys deep inside the Earth? -- Human ecology: How to progress beyond eco-colonialism -- Human genome: The industrialization of fundamental biology -- Human origins: Why most of those exhumations are only of great-aunts -- Ice-rafting events: Glacial surges in sudden changes of climate -- Immortality: Should we be satisfied with 100 years? -- Immune system: What's me, what's you, and what's a nasty bug? -- Impacts: Physical consequences of collisions with comets and asteroids -- Languages: Why women often set the new fashions in speaking -- Life's origins: Will the answer to the riddle come from outer space? -- ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog description "Mammals: Tracing our milk-making forebears in a world of drifting continents -- Matter: Pointers -- Memory: Tracking down the chemistry of retention and forgetfulness -- Microwave background: Looking for the pattern on the cosmic wallpaper -- Minerals in space: From stellar dust to crystals to stones -- Molecular partners: Letting natural processes do the chemist's work -- Molecules evolving: How the Japanese heretics were vindicated -- Molecules in space: Exotic chemistry among the stars -- Neutrino oscillations: When ghostly particles play hide-and-seek -- Neutron stars: Ticking clocks in the sky, and their silent shadows -- Nuclear weapons: The desperately close-run thing -- Ocean currents: A central-heating system for the world -- Origins: Pointers -- Particle families: Completing the Standard Model of matter and its behaviour -- Photosynthesis: How does your garden grow? -- Plant diseases: An evolutionary arms race or just trench warfare? -- Plants: Pointers -- ".
- catalog description "Plasma crystals: How a newly found force empowers dust -- Plate motions: What rocky machinery refurbishes the Earth's surface? -- Predators: Come back Brer Wolf, all is forgiven -- Prehistoric genes: Sorting the travelling salesmen from the settlers -- Primate behaviour: Clues to the origins of human culture -- Prions: From cannibals and mad cows to new modes of heredity and evolution -- Protein-making: From an impressionistic dance to a real molecular movie -- Protein shapes: Look forward to seeing them shimmy -- Proteomes: The molecular corps de ballet of living things -- Quantum tangles: From puzzling to spooky to useful -- Quark soup: Recreating a world without protons -- Relativity: Pointers -- Smallpox: The dairymaid's blessing and the general's curse -- Solar wind: How it creates the heliosphere in which we live -- Space weather: Why it is now more troublesome than in the old days -- Sparticles: A wished-for superworld of exotic matter and forces -- ".
- catalog description "Speech: A gene that makes us more eloquent than chimpanzees -- Starbursts: Galactic traffic accidents and stellar baby booms -- Stars: Hearing them sing and sizing them up -- Stem cells: Tissue engineering, natural and medical -- Sun's interior: How sound waves made our mother star transparent -- Superatoms, superfluids and superconductors: The march of the boson armies -- Superstrings: Retuning the cosmic imagination -- Time machines: The biggest issue in contemporary physics? -- Transgenic crops: For better or worse, a planetary experiment has begun -- Tree of life: Promiscuous bacteria and the course of evolution -- Universe: 'It must have known we were coming' -- Volcanic explosions: Where will the next big one be?".
- catalog extent "xii, 756 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0198507925 (hc)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "500 21".
- catalog subject "Discoveries in science.".
- catalog subject "Q125 .C286 2003".
- catalog subject "Science History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Science.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Alcohol: Genetic revelations of when yeast invented booze -- Altruism and aggression: Looking for the origins of those human alternatives -- Antimatter: Does the coat that Sakharov made really explain its absence? -- Arabidopsis: The modest weed that gave plant scientists the big picture -- Astronautics: Will interstellar pioneers be overtaken by their grandchildren? -- Bernal's ladder: Pointers -- Big Bang: The inflationary Universe's sleight-of-hand -- Biodiversity: The mathematics of co-existence -- Biological clocks: Molecular machinery that governs life's routines -- Biosphere from space: 'I want to do the whole world' -- Bits and qubits: The digital world and its looming quantum shadow -- Black holes: The awesome engines of quasars and active galaxies -- Brain images: What do all the vivid movies really mean? -- Brain rhythms: The mathematics of the beat we think to -- Brain wiring: How do all those nerve connections know where to go? -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Buckyballs and nanotubes: Doing very much more with very much less -- Cambrian explosion: Easy come and easy go, among the early animals -- Carbon cycle: Exactly how does it interact with the global climate? -- Cell cycle: How and when one living entity becomes two -- Cell death: How life makes suicide part of the evolutionary deal -- Cell traffic: Zip codes, stepping-stones and the recognition of life's complexity -- Cereals: Genetic boosts for the most cosseted inhabitants of the planet -- Chaos: The butterfly versus the ladybird, and the Mercury Effect -- Climate change: Shall we freeze or fry? -- Cloning: Why doing without sex carries a health warning -- Comets and asteroids: Snowy dirtballs and their rocky cousins -- Continents and supercontinents: Collage-making since the world began -- Cosmic rays: Where do the punchiest particles come from? -- Cryosphere: Ice sheets, sea-ice and mountain glaciers tell a confusing tale -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Dark energy: Revealing the power of an accelerating Universe -- Dark matter: A wind of wimps or the machinations of machos? -- Dinosaurs: Why small was beautiful in the end -- Discovery: Why the top experts are usually wrong -- Disorderly materials: The wonders of untidy solids and tidy liquids -- DNA fingerprinting: From parentage cases to facial diversity -- Earth: Why is it so very different from all the other planets of the Sun? -- Earthquakes: Why they may never be accurately predicted, or prevented -- Earthshine: How bright clouds reveal climate change, and perhaps drive it -- Earth system: Pointers -- Eco-evolution: New perspectives on variability and survival -- Electroweak force: How Europe recovered its fading glory in particle physics -- Elements: A legacy from stellar puffs, collapsing giants and exploding dwarfs -- El Nino: When a warm sea wobbles the global weather -- Embryos: 'Think of the control genes operating a chemical computer' -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Energy and mass: The cosmic currency of Einstein's most famous equation -- Evolution: Why Darwin's natural selection was never the whole story -- Extinctions: Were they nearly all due to bolts from the blue? -- Extraterrestrial life: Could we be all alone in the Milky Way? -- Extremophiles: Creatures that thrive in unexpected places -- Flood basalts: Can impacting comets set continents in motion? -- Flowering: Colourful variations on a theme of genetic pathways -- Forces: Pointers -- Galaxies: Looking for Juno's milk in the infant Universe -- Gamma-ray bursts: New black holes being fashioned every day -- Genes: Words of wisdom from our ancestors, in four colours -- Genomes in general: The whole history of life in a chemical code -- Global enzymes: Why they now fascinate geologists, chemists and biologists -- Grammar: Does it stand between computers and the dominion of the world? -- Gravitational waves: Shaking the Universe with weighty news -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Gravity: Did Uncle Albert really get it right? -- Handedness: Mysteries of left versus right that won't go away -- Higgs bosons: The multi-billion-dollar quest for the mass-maker -- High-speed travel: The common sense of special relativity -- Hopeful monsters: How they herald a revolution in evolution -- Hotspots: Are there really chimneys deep inside the Earth? -- Human ecology: How to progress beyond eco-colonialism -- Human genome: The industrialization of fundamental biology -- Human origins: Why most of those exhumations are only of great-aunts -- Ice-rafting events: Glacial surges in sudden changes of climate -- Immortality: Should we be satisfied with 100 years? -- Immune system: What's me, what's you, and what's a nasty bug? -- Impacts: Physical consequences of collisions with comets and asteroids -- Languages: Why women often set the new fashions in speaking -- Life's origins: Will the answer to the riddle come from outer space? -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Mammals: Tracing our milk-making forebears in a world of drifting continents -- Matter: Pointers -- Memory: Tracking down the chemistry of retention and forgetfulness -- Microwave background: Looking for the pattern on the cosmic wallpaper -- Minerals in space: From stellar dust to crystals to stones -- Molecular partners: Letting natural processes do the chemist's work -- Molecules evolving: How the Japanese heretics were vindicated -- Molecules in space: Exotic chemistry among the stars -- Neutrino oscillations: When ghostly particles play hide-and-seek -- Neutron stars: Ticking clocks in the sky, and their silent shadows -- Nuclear weapons: The desperately close-run thing -- Ocean currents: A central-heating system for the world -- Origins: Pointers -- Particle families: Completing the Standard Model of matter and its behaviour -- Photosynthesis: How does your garden grow? -- Plant diseases: An evolutionary arms race or just trench warfare? -- Plants: Pointers -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Plasma crystals: How a newly found force empowers dust -- Plate motions: What rocky machinery refurbishes the Earth's surface? -- Predators: Come back Brer Wolf, all is forgiven -- Prehistoric genes: Sorting the travelling salesmen from the settlers -- Primate behaviour: Clues to the origins of human culture -- Prions: From cannibals and mad cows to new modes of heredity and evolution -- Protein-making: From an impressionistic dance to a real molecular movie -- Protein shapes: Look forward to seeing them shimmy -- Proteomes: The molecular corps de ballet of living things -- Quantum tangles: From puzzling to spooky to useful -- Quark soup: Recreating a world without protons -- Relativity: Pointers -- Smallpox: The dairymaid's blessing and the general's curse -- Solar wind: How it creates the heliosphere in which we live -- Space weather: Why it is now more troublesome than in the old days -- Sparticles: A wished-for superworld of exotic matter and forces -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Speech: A gene that makes us more eloquent than chimpanzees -- Starbursts: Galactic traffic accidents and stellar baby booms -- Stars: Hearing them sing and sizing them up -- Stem cells: Tissue engineering, natural and medical -- Sun's interior: How sound waves made our mother star transparent -- Superatoms, superfluids and superconductors: The march of the boson armies -- Superstrings: Retuning the cosmic imagination -- Time machines: The biggest issue in contemporary physics? -- Transgenic crops: For better or worse, a planetary experiment has begun -- Tree of life: Promiscuous bacteria and the course of evolution -- Universe: 'It must have known we were coming' -- Volcanic explosions: Where will the next big one be?".
- catalog title "Magic universe : the Oxford guide to modern science / Nigel Calder.".
- catalog title "Oxford guide to modern science".
- catalog type "Aufsatzsammlung. swd".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".