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Author:   C. Renée James (Sam Houston State University)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781421415000

ISBN 10:   1421415003
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   10 November 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Finding Ourselves 1. A Brief History of Timing 2. Going with the Flow 3. From Principia to Principe 4. The Attraction of Time 5. Fine-tuning Our Clocks 6. Around the World in 80 Hours (Give or Take) Part II: Identity Crisis 7. One Strand 8. Two Strands 9. The First Rungs of the Ladder 10. Interchangeable Pieces 11. Igniting the Fuse 12. Breaking Down, Building Up 13. A Curious Boy 14. Copycat 15. Molecule of the Year 16. The Genetic Bread Machine Part III: Finding a Hot Spot 17. A Universal ""Hot Spot"" 18. Classic Black 19. A Tunnel to Oblivion 20. Chasing Wild Geese 21. Going Wireless 22. Where Credit Is Due 23. Anatomy of a Successful Failure Part IV: Pick Your Poison 24. Desperate Times, Desperate Measures 25. Barking up the Right Tree 26. The Inside Story on Pain 27. A Bitter Sting 28. A Simple Question 29. The Gift of the Magus Part V: Dreaming of the Star Treatment 30. Ingredients of the Stars 31. The Sun's Secret Recipe 32. Reading between the Lines 33. Through a Star Darkly 34. The Opacity Project 35. The Iron Lady and the Gold Standard 36. Therapy of the Stars Afterword References Index"

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Celebration of ingenuity and the scientific process... filled with troves of examples of how scientific research can transform our lives in important yet often unpredictable ways.--Sid Perkins Science News

Celebration of ingenuity and the scientific process... filled with troves of examples of how scientific research can transform our lives in important yet often unpredictable ways. -- Sid Perkins Science News

Author Information

C. Renee James is a professor of physics at Sam Houston State University. She is the author of Seven Wonders of the Universe That You Probably Took for Granted, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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