First You Build a Cloud by Kc Cole
For many of us, physics, like math, has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. In First You Build a Cloud, K. C. Cole provides cogent explanations through animated prose, metaphors, and anecdotes, allowing us to comprehend the nuances of physics-gravity and light, color and shape, quarks and quasars, particles and stars, force and strength. We also come to see how the physical world is so deeply intertwined with the ways in which we think about culture, poetry, and philosophy. Cole, one of our preeminent science writers, serves as a guide into the world of such legendary scientific minds as Richard Feynman, Victor Weisskopf, brothers Frank Oppenheimer and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Philip Morrison, Vera Kistiakowsky, and Stephen Jay Gould.K.C.Cole is a UCLA professor and a scientific columnist for the Los Angeles Times. She lives in Santa Monica, California, and is the author of the international bestsellers The Universe and the Teacup and First You Make a Cloud.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780156006460 |
| ISBN 10 | 0156006464 |
| Title | First You Build a Cloud |
| Author | Kc Cole |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace International |
| Year published | 1999-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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