MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009043082
003 DLC
005 20110104082524.0
008 091028s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009043082
020 $a9780865479227 (alk. paper)
020 $a0865479224 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn456171469
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050 00 $aQ162$b.C459 2010
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082 00 $a500$222
100 1 $aChown, Marcus.
245 14 $aThe matchbox that ate a forty-ton truck :$bwhat everyday things tell us about the universe /$cMarcus Chown.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFaber and Faber,$cc2010.
300 $axiii, 269 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aOriginally published in 2009 by Faber and Faber, Great Britain, as We need to talk about Kelvin: What everyday things tell us about the universe.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe face in the window -- Why atoms rock and roll all over the place -- No more than two peas in a pod at a time -- We need to talk about Kelvin -- You, me and the spectacularly unlikely triple-alpha process -- The 4.5-billion-degree furnace -- The unutterable feebleness of starlight -- The bang before the Big One -- The Humpty Dumpty tendency -- Random reality -- Earth's full, go home.
520 $aAn introduction to cosmology instructs readers on how to recognize cosmic qualities in the everyday world, from the paradoxical size of atoms versus light waves to the ways in which television static reflects the origins of the universe.
650 0 $aCosmology$vPopular works.
650 0 $aPhysics$vPopular works.
650 0 $aScience$vPopular works.