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Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is renowned for its mystery and magic. What's the truth behind it all? Is the golden compass actually based in science? How does the subtle knife cut through anything? Could there be a bomb like the one made with Lyra's hair? How do the Gallivespians' lodestone resonators really work? And, of course, what are the Dark Materials? Drawing on string theory and spacetime, quantum physics and chaos theory, award-winning...
Author
Publisher
Chamberlain Bros., a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"In this account, renowned science writers John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin delve into the year that brought the world into the nuclear age. Covering Einstein's scientific achievements - the completion of a doctoral degree and the three papers that form the basis of the Theory of Relativity - as well as his tumultuous personal life, the Gribbins present the historical context that led to this, the most famous equation of all time, and that changed the...