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The Water Book
Alok Jha
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Description for The Water Book
Paperback. A biography of the strangest molecule in the universe. Alok Jha takes the most every day of subjects - water - and explodes it into a story that takes us from the Big Bang to the latest developments of modern science Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; PNK; RBK; RNFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 266.
Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn't live without it. Yet, on closer examination it is also a very strange substance (it is one of only a very small number of molecules which expand when cooled). Look closer again and water reveals itself as a key to a scientific story on the biggest of canvases. Water is crucial to our survival - life depends on it - but it was also fundamental in the origins of life on ... Read more
Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn't live without it. Yet, on closer examination it is also a very strange substance (it is one of only a very small number of molecules which expand when cooled). Look closer again and water reveals itself as a key to a scientific story on the biggest of canvases. Water is crucial to our survival - life depends on it - but it was also fundamental in the origins of life on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
265g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472209535
SKU
V9781472209535
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-50
About Alok Jha
Alok Jha is a journalist and broadcaster based in London. He is science correspondent for ITN and, before that, was science correspondent at the Guardian. He has presented science programmes for BBC2 and BBC Radio 4. Alok received a science-writing award from the American Institute of Physics in 2014, was named European Science Writer of the year in 2008, and ... Read more
Reviews for The Water Book
It delights again and again because, as in all the best science writing, the tale is stranger and more curious than one could ever imagine - Guardian One of the brightest young science writers around . . . He belongs to a select band of science communicators, and knows his science at a deep level and can ... Read more