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A Single Oxygen Atom's Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth... and Beyond

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By Lawrence M. Krauss

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On Sale
May 9, 2002
Page Count
320 pages
Publisher
Back Bay Books
ISBN-13
9780316183093

Price

$21.99

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$28.99 CAD

Format

Trade Paperback

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The story of matter and the history of the cosmos from the perspective of a single oxygen atom, told with the insight and wit of one of the most dynamic physicists and writers working today.

Through this astonishing work, he manages to stoke wonder at the powers and unlikely events that conspired to create our solar system, our ecosystem, and us.

Genre:

  • Nonfiction
  • Science
  • Cosmology
  • Space Science
  • Cosmology

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Lawrence M. Krauss

About the Author

Lawrence M. Krauss is Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve University. He is the only physicist to have received the top awards by the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, and the American Association of Physics Teachers. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

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