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001 2013427909
003 DLC
005 20130928081645.0
008 130913r20132013nyua 001 0 eng d
010 $a 2013427909
020 $a9780062238832
020 $a0062238833
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn813286721
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050 00 $aQH501$b.C69 2013
082 04 $a570$223
100 1 $aCox, Brian,$d1968-$eauthor.
245 10 $aWonders of life :$bexploring the most extraordinary force in the universe /$cBrian Cox ; and Andrew Cohen.
246 34 $aWonders of life :$bexploring the most extraordinary phenomenon in the universe
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bHarper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,$c[2013]
264 4 $c©2013
300 $a288 pages :$bcolor illustrations ;$c29 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"As seen on SCI, Science Channel"--Cover.
500 $a"First published in the United Kingdom by Collins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers."
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aWonders of life -- Home. Evolution of life ; Return of the king ; A very special home ; Simple but complex ; The history of the exploration of water ; Water, water everywhere-- ; Water, the essential ingredient ; Walking on water ; Treetops to teardrops : the magic of hydrogen bonds ; Into the light. A train journey through time ; A child star ; A unique and colourful world ; The origin;s of life's colours ; From the smallest beginnings-- ; Eating the Sun ; A breath of fresh air ; Breath of life ; Four-legged life story -- What is life? The briefest of beauty. Day of the dead ; What is life? ; Energy and the First Law of Thermodynamics ; First life. Life's first energy source ; On Professor Cox's battery and the origin of life ; Searching for Eden : a warm little pond-- ; Universal life ; Prokaryotic and eukaryotic life ; Life and the Second Law of Thermodynamics : Schrödinger's Paradox ; Follow the Sun ; The origin of life's order ; One big family -- Size matters. Life-size differences. Same planet, different world ; Ocean giants ; The physics of a killer ; Small is beautiful ; Of royal crowns and ocean giants ; Big things don't jump ; Lost giants ; The world of the small. Inside an insect ; Beetle mania ; Broken men and splashing horses ; As small as it gets-- ; The smallest multicellular life on Earth ; Size really matters ; An island of giants -- Expanding universe. The expanding universe. Plugging in ; The common sense ; A bolt from the blue ; The universal nature of sensing ; River monsters ; Good vibrations. The power of hearing ; The human ear : a wonder of acoustic engineering ; The ossicles : one of nature's great evolutionary bodges ; Evolving ears and eyes ; The jawless lamprey ; Let there be light-- Seeing the light ; Eye wide open ; A very human experience of a very human creature ; Compound vs. camera : the advantages and disadvantages of the simple and the complex ; Seeing the universe -- Endless forms most beautiful. A universal common ancestor. Evolution and Madagascar ; Darwin's bark spider ; Darwin's orchid ; A name for life ; The stuff of life ; The bird : collision of a trillion suns ; The Hoyle Resonance : are we lucky to be here at all? ; Carbon cycle. The greatest cycles of life ; Harvesting carbon ; Why carbon? ; The building blocks of biology ; DNA from the beginning ; Meet the ancestors ; Tree of life ; Mutations : the spring from which diversity flows ; The power of mutations ; Tossing a coin isn't enough ; The power of islands ; Island Madagascar ; A creature from another world ; Precious islands.
650 0 $aLife (Biology)
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)
700 1 $aCohen, Andrew,$eauthor.
710 2 $aScience Channel (Television network)
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1318/2013427909-b.html