The Fly in the Cathedral - Brossura

Cathcart, Brian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374530262 ISBN 13: 9780374530266

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005

Riassunto

This is a paperbound reprint of the 2004 work. Cathcart, a science writer but not himself a scientist, relates the story of how the atom was split in 1932 in terms of human dreams and human endeavor--in short, as an adventure tale that "involves people with ordinary lives and loves who worked with nothing more exotic than steel, wire, glass, oil, a few odd minerals and their own good sense." The science isn't lost in Cathcart's translation, it's simply made thrillingly accessible to anyone with an interest in how the atomic age came to be. Cathcart is a former reporter for Reuters and The Independent and the author of Test of Greatness: Britain's Struggle for the Atom Bomb. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Su questo libro

L'autore:

A former reporter for Reuters and the Independent, Brian Cathcart is the author of: Test of Greatness: Britain's Struggle for the Atom Bomb, among other books. He lives in North London.

Product Description:

Book by Cathcart Brian

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0374530262
• ISBN 13: 9780374530266
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 308