Item type | Location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book | NF 515.5 S (Browse shelf) | Available | H037175555 |
NF 513 S Zero : the biography of a dangerous idea | NF 513.2 B Three friends : a counting book | NF 513.2 C Percents and ratios / | NF 515.5 S Gasp! : | NF 516 P Vicious circles and other savage shapes; Murderous maths | NF 516 T Geometry : | NF 516.2 L The golden ratio : |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-414).
Our airy bodies -- A whole lot of air -- The origins of air -- Once air was simply marvelous -- Air, God, and the guillotine -- Mythic gods of air -- Is there air in heaven? -- The little atmospheric disruptions of man -- A few twentieth century air nightmares -- Clean air dreams -- The black triangle -- One clean breath.
Library Journal, November 2004
Publisher's Weekly, September 2004
A scientific, historical, environmental, and cultural portrait of air, which discusses such topics as air's origins, the biology of human breathing, pollution, poison gas, and the religious significance of breath.
Adult$b Follett Library Resources