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First You Build a Cloud Paperback - 1999
by K. C. Cole
Demystifying physics in a fascinating read, "First You Build a Cloud" does for physics what the bestselling "The Universe and the Teacup" did for math.
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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.
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- Title First You Build a Cloud
- Author K. C. Cole
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-04-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780156006460 / 0156006464
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.32 x 0.74 in (20.37 x 13.51 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Physics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-47050
- Dewey Decimal Code 530
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Citations
- Booklist, 04/01/1999, Page 1373
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/1999, Page 423
- Library Journal, 05/01/1999, Page 104
- Publishers Weekly, 03/15/1999, Page 0
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