How to Live Forever: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Science (Record no. 295465)
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fixed length control field | 01641nam a2200157Ia 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9780857388353 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 500 JHA-H .PS |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Alok Jha |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | How to Live Forever: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Science |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Quercus |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 391p. |
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
Formatted contents note | Introduction. How to clone a sheep. How to start a plague. How to live forever. How to heal the sick. How to build a brain. How to turn sunbeams into oak trees. How to become invisible. How to put the world in order. How to make artificial life. How to build a Universe. How to make lightning. How to put the Universe to work. How to split an atom. How to know the mind of God. How to age slower than you twin. How to get life started. How to predict the unpredictable. How to fight for survival. How to boil and planet. How to build an Earth. How to control the weather. How to survive in space. How to find the missing parts of the Universe. How to programme your genes. How to find other universes. How to break codes. How to live with uncertainty. How to know yourself. How to spot a pseudoscientist. How to become a cyborg. How to read minds. How to think like an ant. How to save the world. Glossary. Index. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | How to clone a sheep. How to build a brain. How to boil a planet. How to save the world. From the microscopic to the cosmic, this book takes you on a glorious tour of the known universe and beyond, encompassing alien worlds, bizarre life forms, quantum weirdness, parallel dimensions and dissected brains along the way. |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science -- Popular works. Science. |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | Book |
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Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Processing Center | 01/09/2015 | 1 | 500 JHA-H .PS | DCB2283 | 13/02/2023 | 31/03/2022 | 19/07/2019 | Book |