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Stardust

Stardust

John Gribbin

Gribbin has done it again ... the story of how the matter that makes up our bodies travelled from the stars ... a wonderful account' Sunday Times, Books of the Year Every one of us is made of stardust, John Gribbin explains in this dazzling ...
Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life

Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life

John Gribbin

In fact, John Gribbin reveals, our seemingly random universe is actually built on simple laws of cause and effect that can explain why, for example, just one vehicle braking can cause a traffic jam; why wild storms result from a slight ...
Computing with Quantum Cats: From Colossus to Qubits

Computing with Quantum Cats: From Colossus to Qubits

John Gribbin

In his fascinating study of this cutting-edge technology, John Gribbin updates his previous views on the nature of quantum reality, arguing for a universe of many parallel worlds where ‘everything is real’.
The Universe: A Biography

The Universe: A Biography

John Gribbin

The Universe: A Biography makes cosmology accessible to everyone. John Gribbin navigates the latest frontiers of scientific discovery to tell us what we really know about the history of the universe.
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution

Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution

John Gribbin

In this riveting biography John Gribbin takes us into the heart of the quantum revolution. He tells the story of Schrödinger's surprisingly colourful life (he arrived for a position at Oxford University with both his wife and mistress).
The National union catalogs, 1963-: A cumulative author list ...

The National union catalogs, 1963-: A cumulative author list ...

Library of Congress

I.Tltle: Bibliographic devices, n. Title. NcU NUC70-41153 Gribbin, Lenore S Who's whodunit ; a list of 3218 detective story writers and their 1100 rneudonyms, by Lenore S. Gribbin. Chapel Hill, ITniverMty of North Carolina Library 1968. Ix. 174 ...
Computing with Quantum Cats: From Colossus to Qubits

Computing with Quantum Cats: From Colossus to Qubits

John Gribbin

This is an exciting insider's look at the new frontier of computer science and its revolutionary implications.
Galaxies: A Very Short Introduction

Galaxies: A Very Short Introduction

John Gribbin

In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, popular science writer John Gribben tells the story of our growing understanding of galaxies, from the days before Galileo to our present-day observations of our many hundreds of millions of ...
From Here to Infinity: A Beginner's Guide to Astronomy

From Here to Infinity: A Beginner's Guide to Astronomy

John Gribbin

Presents an introduction to astronomy, including the planets, stars, galaxies, and the field of cosmology.
Future Worlds

Future Worlds

John Gribbin

During the middle and late 1960s, concern about the way the world might be going began to move out of the arena of academic debate amongst specialists, and became a topic of almost everyday interest to millions of people.
Reunion

Reunion

John Gribbin

It is over a thousand years since the events of Double Planet, when a group of cosmonauts crashed a comet into the Moon, thereby bringing a potential life-supporting atmosphere to that desolate planet.
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

John Gribbin

One of the most important stopovers was at Fermilab, in Chicago. At the core of the cosmology group at Fermilab were three largerthanlife characters, Mike Turner, David Schramm, and Edward Kolb, who have perhaps contributed as much to ...
In Search of the Multiverse

In Search of the Multiverse

John Gribbin

Can there be different physical laws from the ones we know? Are there in fact other universes? Do we really live in a multiverse? This book is a search - the ultimate search - exploring the frontiers of reality.
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912

Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912

Thomas S. Kuhn

. The book not only deals with a topic of importance and interest to all scientists, but is also a polished literary work, described (accurately) by one of its original reviewers as a scientific detective story."—John Gribbin, New ...
Science: A History, 1543-2001

Science: A History, 1543-2001

John Gribbin

An accessible narrative history, focusing on the way in which science has progressed by building on what went before, and also on the very close relationship between the progress of science and improved technology.
Q is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics

Q is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics

John Gribbin

In the ultimate guide to the ultimate mystery--the quantum world--an award-winning scientist and a master of popular science writing explains recent breakthroughs and the wondrous possibilities that lie in the future.
The Reason Why: The Miracle of Life on Earth

The Reason Why: The Miracle of Life on Earth

John Gribbin

... New York, 1981 Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994 Ken Croswell, The Alchemy of the Heavens, Anchor, New York, 1995 Ken Croswell, Planet Quest, Free Press, New York, 1997 Michael Crowe, ...
The Southeastern Librarian

The Southeastern Librarian

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Miss Goudy was formerly Head of the Acquisitions Department of Lafayette College. Lenore S. GRIBBIN has been named Honorary Consultant for the Detective Fiction Collection recently acquired by the University of North Carolina Library.
Buyer's Guide and Web Site Directory: 2001-2006

Buyer's Guide and Web Site Directory: 2001-2006

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Infernal Cataloging: A Retrospect By LENORE S. GRIBBIN I had not lived a good life, so when I passed into the great beyond I was not surprised to find myself in the great below. My adherence to Cutter (4th ed.) and my ability to recite the ...
An Introduction to the Detective Story

An Introduction to the Detective Story

LeRoy Panek

Evansville, Ind.: Cook, 1979. Glover, Dorothy, and Graham Greene. Victorian Detective Fiction: A Catalogue of the Collection. London: Bodley Head, 1966. Gribbin, Lenore S. Who's Whodunit. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1968.
American Reference Books Annual, 1982

American Reference Books Annual, 1982

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As an authority on criminous literature, I am non-plussed by Ms. Bates' definition of "thriller-mystery" fiction, which is so simplistic as to be non-existent. Bates' compilation immediately brings to mind Lenore S. Gribbin's Who's Whodunit ( Chapel ...
Ontario Library Review

Ontario Library Review

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As an authority on criminous literature, I am non-plussed by Miss Bates's definition of "thriller-mystery" fiction, which is so simplistic as to be non-existent. Miss Bates's compilation immediately brings to mind LenoreS. Gribbin's Who's whodunit ...
Who's whodunit: a list of 3218 detective story writers and ...

Who's whodunit: a list of 3218 detective story writers and ...

Lenore S. Gribbin

1 EQ (Wads worth Camp) Campbell, Alice (Ormond) 1887- 2 H Campbell, Colin, pseud, see Christie, Douglas, 1894- Campbell, Donald Frederick, 1906- 2 Campbell, Sir Gilbert Edward, bart., 1838- * EQ Campbell, Harriette (Russell) 1883- 2 ...
List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the ...

List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the ...

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics

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Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

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... John • Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John - Wilson, John, the younger Wilson, John Edwards Wilson, John Gray - Wilson, John Jowitt - Wilson, John Nathaniel Wilson, John Richard Shepherd.
The American Shropshire Sheep Record

The American Shropshire Sheep Record

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An Alphabetical List of the Poll, taken before John ...

An Alphabetical List of the Poll, taken before John ...

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Official Register of the United States

Official Register of the United States

United States Civil Service Commission

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Biennial Report of the Adjutant General: (1861-1866)

Biennial Report of the Adjutant General: (1861-1866)

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Journal

Journal

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Says he served subpoenas on Samuel Lord, James Ellis, John J. Libert, John Jones, John Ruth, John Kirk, Lukens Kirk, Cornelius Tyson, M. Meglathery, John Williams, John Funk and Charles Coogler. Question by Mr. Bell.—What are the ...

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