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Science unshackled : how obscure, abstract, seemingly useless scientific research turned out to be the basis for modern life / C. Renée James.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, C. Renée, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Miscellanea.
- Science.
- Research--Miscellanea.
- Research.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 198 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- A brief history of timing
- Going with the flow
- From principia to principe
- The attraction of time
- Fine tuning time
- Around the world in 80 hours (give or take)
- Identity crisis
- One strand
- Two strands
- The first rungs of the ladder
- Interchangeable pieces
- Igniting the fuse
- Breaking down, building up
- A curious boy
- Copycat
- The molecule of the year
- The genetic bread machine
- Finding a hot spot
- A universal "hot spot"
- Classic black
- A tunnel to oblivion
- Chasing wild geese
- Going wireless
- Heated debates and hot spots
- Anatomy of a successful failure
- Pick your poison
- Desperate times, desperate measures
- Barking up the right tree
- The inside story on pain
- A bitter sting
- A simple question
- The gift of the magus
- Dreaming of getting the star treatment
- Ingredients of the stars
- The sun's secret recipe
- Reading between the lines
- Through a star darkly
- The opacity project
- The iron lady and the gold standard
- The star treatment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421415000
- 1421415003
- OCLC:
- 879604446
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