Zoom From Atoms And Galaxies To Blizzards And Bees How Everything Moves Berman by Berman, Bob, Author instant download after payment.

x, 323, 13 pages : 21 cm, Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-310) and index, Prologue : Damage and escape -- Part I. Figuring out the motion picture : The growth of nothingness: journeys in an exploding universe -- Slow as molasses: how we learned to love lethargy -- Runaway poles: they're really shifting: are we toast? -- The man who only loved sand: and the curious phenomena of the Atacama Desert -- Down the drain: weird goings-on at the equator, and the Frenchmen who died young -- Frozen: the unhurried riddles of snow and ice -- April's hidden mysteries: deciphering the secrets of spring -- Part II. The pace quickens : The gang that deciphered the wind: a desert dweller's airy spells last for a millennium while two oddballs dodge the inquisition -- Blown away: a fanatical mariner takes the world to the edge of violence -- Falling: enigmas of the most far-reaching force -- Rush hour for every body: revelations gained by looking within -- Brooks and breakers: earth's greatest assets are liquid -- Invisible companions: the odd entities zooming through our bodies -- The stop-action murderer: and his battles with the ephemeral -- Barriers of light and sound: a thirty-century quest that began with thunder -- Meteor in the kitchen: and other peculiar end points -- Infinite speed: when light's velocity just won't get you there -- Sleepy village in an exploding universe: back where it all began -- Appendix 1. Table of selected natural speeds -- Appendix 2. A note on accuracy and choice of units