Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water - Brossura

Ball, Philip

 
9780520230088: Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water
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ISBN 10: 0520230086 ISBN 13: 9780520230088
Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2001

Sinossi

One of the four elements of classical antiquity, water is central to the environment of our planet. In Life's Matrix, Philip Ball writes of water's origins, history, and unique physical character. As a geological agent, water shapes mountains, canyons, and coastlines, and when unleashed in hurricanes and floods its destructive power is awesome. Ball's provocative exploration of water on other planets highlights the possibilities of life beyond Earth. Life's Matrix also examines the grim realities of depletion of natural resources and its effects on the availability of water in the twenty-first century.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Philip Ball studied chemistry at Oxford and received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Bristol. He has worked for ten years as an editor at Nature magazine. He is the author of Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry for the 21st Century (1994), Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century (1997), and The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature.

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Editore
Univ of California Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0520230086
ISBN 13 
9780520230088
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
417
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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