Caesar's last breath

decoding the secrets of the air around us

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Sam Kean
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Caesar's last breath

decoding the secrets of the air around us

First edition.
  • 3.00 ·
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A round-the-globe journey through the periodic table explains how the air people breathe reflects the world's history, tracing the origins and ingredients of the atmosphere to explain air's role in reshaping continents, steering human progress, and powering revolutions.

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English
Pages
373

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Cover of: O Último Suspiro de César
Cover of: Caesar's Last Breath
Caesar's Last Breath: The Epic Story of the Air Around Us
2018, Transworld Publishers Limited
in English
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Cover of: Ostatni oddech Cezara
Ostatni oddech Cezara
2018, Wydawnictwo JK
paperback in Polish
Cover of: Caesar's Last Breath
Caesar's Last Breath: The Epic Story of the Air Around Us
2017, Transworld Publishers Limited
in English
Cover of: Caesar's Last Breath
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
2017, Little Brown & Company
in English
Cover of: Caesar's last breath
Caesar's last breath: decoding the secrets of the air around us
2017, Little, Brown and Company
in English - First edition.
Cover of: Caesar's Last Breath
Caesar's Last Breath
2017, Transworld Publishers Limited
in English
Cover of: Caesar's Last Breath
Caesar's Last Breath: The Epic Story of the Air Around Us
2017, Transworld Publishers Limited
in English
Cover of: Caesar's Last Breath
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Jul 18, 2017, Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The last breath
Making air: our first four atmospheres
Earth's early air
The exploding lake
The devil in the air
Welding a dangerous weapon
The curse and blessing of oxygen
Hotter than the Dickens
Harnessing air: the human relationship with air
The wonder-working gas of delight
Le Pétomane
Controlled chaos
Steeling yourself for tragedy
Into the blue
Night lights
Frontiers: the new heavens
The fallout of fallout
Albert Einstein and the people's fridge
Weather wars
Rumbles from Roswell
Putting on alien airs.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-362) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
551.51
Library of Congress
QC161 .K43 2017, QC161.K43 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 373 pages
Number of pages
373

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27239230M
ISBN 10
0316381640
ISBN 13
9780316381642
LCCN
2016954781
OCLC/WorldCat
962831326

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