The Magic Furnace

Author : Marcus Chown
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448112745
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic Furnace written by Marcus Chown and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every atom in our bodies has an extraordinary history. Our blood, our food, our books, our clothes - everything contains atoms forged in blistering furnaces deep inside stars, which were blown into space by those stars' cataclysmic explosions and deaths. From red giants - stars so enormous they could engulf a million suns - to supernova explosions - the most violent events in the universe - the birth of every atom was marked by cosmic events on an enormous scale, against a backdrop of unimaginable heat and cold, brightness and darkness, space and time. But how did we discover the astonishing truth about our cosmic origins? THE MAGIC FURNACE is Marcus Chown's extraordinary account of how scientists unravelled the mystery of atoms, and helped to explain the dawn of life. It is one of the greatest detective stories in the history of science. In fact, it is two puzzles intertwined, for the stars contain the key to unlocking the secret of atoms, and the atoms the solution to the secret of stars.

Author : Cat Adams
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765359636
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic's Design written by Cat Adams and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "USA Today"-bestselling writing team of C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp--writing under the pen name Cat Adams--returns with a new stand-alone novel of paranormal romance. Original.

Author : David W. Richerson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118392302
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Ceramics written by David W. Richerson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people would be surprised at how ceramics are used, from creating cellular phones, radio, television, and lasers to its role in medicine for cancer treatments and restoring hearing. The Magic of Ceramics introduces the nontechnical reader to the many exciting applications of ceramics, describing how ceramic material functions, while teaching key scientific concepts like atomic structure, color, and the electromagnetic spectrum. With many illustrations from corporations on the ways in which ceramics make advanced products possible, the Second Edition also addresses the newest areas in ceramics, such as nanotechnology.

Author : Virginia Lee Burton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547350570
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel written by Virginia Lee Burton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern classic that no child should miss. Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers -- the very symbol of industrial America. But with progress come new machines, and soon the inseparable duo are out of work. Mike believes that Mary Anne can dig as much in a day as one hundred men can dig in a week, and the two have one last chance to prove it and save Mary Anne from the scrap heap. What happens next in the small town of Popperville is a testament to their friendship, and to old-fashioned hard work and ingenuity.

Author : Marcus Chown
Publisher : University Science Books
ISBN 13 : 9780935702408
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afterglow of Creation written by Marcus Chown and published by University Science Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the cosmic background radiation, the "afterglow" of the Big Bang in which the Universe was born. Fifteen billion years after the event, the afterglow still permeates all of space, making it the oldest relic in creation and providing an imprint of the Universe as it was in its infancy. But the most astonishing thing about the afterglow of creation is that it wasn't discovered until 1965, and then only by accident - despite the fact that it had been predicted in 1948 and the technology to detect it existed during World War II. Chown brilliantly weaves a tale of the search for the origins of the Universe. Beginning in the 1920s and culminating with the flight of the COBE satellite and what it found, this book uncovers the secrets of the Universe.

Author : Karen R. Utz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738566238
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sloss Furnaces written by Karen R. Utz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark is currently the only 20th-century blast furnace in the nation being preserved and interpreted as an industrial museum. Since reopening in 1983, Sloss Furnaces has become an international model for similar preservation efforts and presents a remarkable perspective of the era when America grew to world industrial dominance. At the same time, Sloss is an important reminder of the dreams and struggles of the people who worked in the industries that made Birmingham the "Magic City." Today Sloss is not only dedicated to preservation and education but serves as a center for community and civic events. Site tours and public presentations provide insight into Sloss's industrial heritage as well as a rare glimpse of an early Birmingham that has all but disappeared.

Author : Alexander Gordon Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374362246
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Execution written by Alexander Gordon Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover that the whole world has become a horrible prison run by his nemesis, Alfred Furnace, and only Alex can stop him, even if that makes him the executioner.

Author : Martin Rees
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786723580
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Six Numbers written by Martin Rees and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DivThe genesis of the universe elegantly explained in a simple theory based on just six numbers by one of the world's most renowned astrophysicists/div

Author : Éliphas Lévi
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Éliphas Lévi written by Éliphas Lévi and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presented here collection contains two of the most important books by Éliphas Lévi dedicated to his views on the essence of magic and the history of magical studies. Levi thinks that people regard magic erroneously and narrow it to a collection of tricks. On the contrary, magic is practicing the concentration of will, imagination, and psychic power to influence the minds of other people and the phenomena of reality. In The History of Magic, Lévi compares the magical components of different religious traditions and organizations, like pagan beliefs, Kabbalah, Christian Catholicism, Illuminati, and Freemasonry. He states that true magic is earthed under the parables, fables, and wonder stories with peculiarities in every division. Yet, they all have a common basis, which Lévi describes as the true magic which imparts real science. Levi's books greatly influenced the development of different occult and mystical movements in Europe and the United States, including the Theosophical Society of Helena Blavatsky.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1984 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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