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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780007452675 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Transcribing agency |
UG |
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
QH501 C69 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Cox, Brian, |
Dates associated with a name |
1968- |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Wonders of life : |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
HarperCollins Publishers, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2013. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
288 p. : |
Other physical details |
ill., charts, diagrs, graphs, photos. |
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
Series statement |
(BBC tv series) |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
"As seen on SCI, Science Channel"--Cover. |
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General note |
"First published in the United Kingdom by Collins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers." |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
Wonders of life -- Home. Evolution of life ; Return of the king ; A very special home ; Simple but complex ; The history of the exploration of water ; Water, water everywhere-- ; Water, the essential ingredient ; Walking on water ; Treetops to teardrops : the magic of hydrogen bonds ; Into the light. A train journey through time ; A child star ; A unique and colourful world ; The origin;s of life's colours ; From the smallest beginnings-- ; Eating the Sun ; A breath of fresh air ; Breath of life ; Four-legged life story -- What is life? The briefest of beauty. Day of the dead ; What is life? ; Energy and the First Law of Thermodynamics ; First life. Life's first energy source ; On Professor Cox's battery and the origin of life ; Searching for Eden : a warm little pond-- ; Universal life ; Prokaryotic and eukaryotic life ; Life and the Second Law of Thermodynamics : Schrödinger's Paradox ; Follow the Sun ; The origin of life's order ; One big family -- Size matters. Life-size differences. Same planet, different world ; Ocean giants ; The physics of a killer ; Small is beautiful ; Of royal crowns and ocean giants ; Big things don't jump ; Lost giants ; The world of the small. Inside an insect ; Beetle mania ; Broken men and splashing horses ; As small as it gets-- ; The smallest multicellular life on Earth ; Size really matters ; An island of giants -- Expanding universe. The expanding universe. Plugging in ; The common sense ; A bolt from the blue ; The universal nature of sensing ; River monsters ; Good vibrations. The power of hearing ; The human ear : a wonder of acoustic engineering ; The ossicles : one of nature's great evolutionary bodges ; Evolving ears and eyes ; The jawless lamprey ; Let there be light-- Seeing the light ; Eye wide open ; A very human experience of a very human creature ; Compound vs. camera : the advantages and disadvantages of the simple and the complex ; Seeing the universe -- Endless forms most beautiful. A universal common ancestor. Evolution and Madagascar ; Darwin's bark spider ; Darwin's orchid ; A name for life ; The stuff of life ; The bird : collision of a trillion suns ; The Hoyle Resonance : are we lucky to be here at all? ; Carbon cycle. The greatest cycles of life ; Harvesting carbon ; Why carbon? ; The building blocks of biology ; DNA from the beginning ; Meet the ancestors ; Tree of life ; Mutations : the spring from which diversity flows ; The power of mutations ; Tossing a coin isn't enough ; The power of islands ; Island Madagascar ; A creature from another world ; Precious islands. |
541 ## - IMMEDIATE SOURCE OF ACQUISITION NOTE |
Donor |
Ms. Eshranie Dhori |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Life (Biology). |
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Evolution (Biology). |
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Cohen, Andrew, |
Relator term |
author. |
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Science Channel (Television network) |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Entry Department |
TSDA |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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Acquisition - Verified |
SJM / SM /CB |
Verified |
RC |