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Origins : fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution / Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith.
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Title:Origins : fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution / Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith.
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Author/Creator:Tyson, Neil deGrasse.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Goldsmith, Donald.
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Published/Created:New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2004.
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: QB981 .T96 2004
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Call Number: QB981 .T96 2004
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Cosmology.
Evolution.
Life--Origin.
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Medical Subjects: Cosmology.
Biological Evolution
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Edition:1st ed.
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Description:345 pages, [32] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Summary:Origins explores cosmic science's stunning new insights into the formation and evolution of our universe--of the cosmos, of galaxies and galaxy clusters, of stars within galaxies, of planets that orbit those stars, and of different forms of life that take us back to the first three seconds and forward through three billion years of life on Earth to today's search for life on other planets. Drawing on the current cross-pollination of geology, biology, and astrophysics, Origins explains the thrilling daily breakthroughs in our knowledge of the universe from dark energy to life on Mars to the mysteries of space and time. Distilling complex science in clear and lively prose, coauthors Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith conduct a galvanizing tour of the cosmos revealing what the universe has been up to while turning part of itself into us.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-325) and index.
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ISBN:0393059928
9780393059922
0393327582
9780393327588
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Contents:Preface : A meditation on the origins of science and the science of origins
Overture : The greatest story ever told
pt. 1. The origin of the universe. In the beginning
Antimatter matters
Let there be light
Let there be dark
Let there be more dark
One universe or many?
pt. 2. The origin of galaxies and cosmic structure. Discovering galaxies
The origin of structure
pt. 3. The origin of the stars. Dust to dust
The elemental zoo
pt. 4. The origin of planets. When worlds were young
Between the planets
Worlds unnumbered : planets beyond the solar system
pt. 5. The origin of life. Life in the universe
The origin of life on Earth
Searching for life in the solar system
Searching for life in the Milky Way galaxy
Coda : The search for ourselves in the cosmos.