How to Live Forever: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Science (Record no. 295465)

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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.
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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