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The Faber book of science / (Record no. 13476)

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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 960529r1996 enk 000 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0571179010
029 ## - OTHER SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER (OCLC)
OCLC library identifier T17983
029 ## - OTHER SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER (OCLC)
OCLC library identifier T18452
029 ## - OTHER SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER (OCLC)
OCLC library identifier T31517
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Modifying agency OCoLC
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 500
245 04 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Faber book of science /
Statement of responsibility, etc. edited by John Carey.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Faber and Faber,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1996.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxvii, 528 p. ;
Dimensions 22 cm. +
Accompanying material pbk.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Prelude:the misfit from Vinci -- Going inside the body -- Galileo and the telescope -- William Harvey and the witches -- The hunting spider -- Early blood transfusion -- Little animals in water -- An apple and colours -- The little red mouse and the field cricket -- Two mice discover oxygen -- Discovering uranus -- The big bang and vegetable love -- Taming the speckled monster -- The menance of population --How the giraffe got its neck -- Medical studies, Paris 1821 -- The man with a lid on his stomach -- Those dreadful hammers:lyell and the new geology -- The discovery of worrying -- Pictures for the million -- The battle of the ants -- On a candle -- Heat death -- Adam's navel -- Submarine gardens of eden:devon 1858-9 -- In praise of rust -- The devil's chaplin -- The discovery of prehistory -- Chains and rings:kekule's dreams -- On a piece of chalk -- Siberia breeds a prophet -- Socialism and bacteria -- God and molecules -- Inventing electric light -- Bird's custard:the true story -- Birth control:the diaphragm -- Headless sex:the praying mantis -- The world as sculpture -- The discovery of x-rays -- No sun in Paris -- The colour of radium -- The innocence of radium -- The secret of the mosquitto's stomach -- The poet and the scientist -- Wasps, moths and fosils -- The masacre of the males -- Freud on perversion -- Kitty hawk -- A cuckoo in a robin's nest -- Was the world made for man -- Drawing the nerves -- Discovering the nucleus -- Death of a naturalist -- Relating relativity -- Uncertainty and other worlds -- Quantum mechanics:mines and machine-guns -- Why light travels in straight lines -- Puzzle interest -- Submarine blue -- Sea-cucumbers -- Telling the workers about science -- The making of the eye -- Green mould in the wind -- In the black squash court:the first atomic pile -- A death and the bomb -- The story of a carbon atom -- Tides -- The hot, mobile earth -- The poet and the surgeon -- Enter love and enter death -- In the primeval swamp -- Krakatu:the aftermath -- Gorillas -- Toads -- Russian butterflies -- Discovering a medieval louse -- The Gecko's belly -- On the moon -- Gravity -- Otto Frisch explains atomic particles -- From stardust to flesh -- Black holes -- The fall-out planet -- Galactic diary of an Edwardian lady -- The light of common day -- Can we know the universe?reflections on a grain of salt -- Brain size -- On not discovering -- Negative predictions -- Clever animals -- Great fakes of science -- Unnatural nature -- Rags, dolls and teddy bears -- The man who mistook his wife for a hat -- Seeing the atoms in crystals -- The plan of living things -- Willow seeds and the encyclopaedia britannica -- Shedding life -- The greenhouse effect:an alternative view -- Fractals, chaos and strange attractions -- The language of the genes -- The good earth is dying.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Science
Form subdivision Popular works.
9 (RLIN) 77477
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Carey, John,
Dates associated with a name 1934-
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Available for Loan MTU Bishopstown Library MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 16/11/2001 12.70 3   500 00014754 20/11/2017 1 12.70 20/11/2017 General Lending
    Dewey Decimal Classification   Available for Loan MTU Bishopstown Library MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 16/11/2001 12.68 1   500 00015132 20/11/2017 1 12.68 20/11/2017 General Lending
    Dewey Decimal Classification   Available for Loan MTU Bishopstown Library MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item 30/04/2003 12.70 2   500 00090067 20/11/2017 1 12.70 20/11/2017 General Lending

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