Zoom: How Everything Moves - From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees
Bob Berman
Little, Brown and Company
Hardcover
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From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.
If
you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to
convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still
wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your
chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is
whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of sound.
Natural
motion dominates our lives and the intricate mechanics of the world
around us. In ZOOM, Bob Berman explores how motion shapes every aspect
of the universe, literally from the ground up. With an entertaining
style and a gift for distilling the wondrous, Berman spans astronomy,
geology, biology, meteorology, and the history of science, uncovering
how clouds stay aloft, how the Earth's rotation curves a home run's
flight, and why a mosquito's familiar whine resembles a telephone's dial
tone.
For readers who love to get smarter without realizing it, ZOOM bursts with science writing at its best.
From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.
If
you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to
convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still
wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your
chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is
whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of sound.
Natural
motion dominates our lives and the intricate mechanics of the world
around us. In ZOOM, Bob Berman explores how motion shapes every aspect
of the universe, literally from the ground up. With an entertaining
style and a gift for distilling the wondrous, Berman spans astronomy,
geology, biology, meteorology, and the history of science, uncovering
how clouds stay aloft, how the Earth's rotation curves a home run's
flight, and why a mosquito's familiar whine resembles a telephone's dial
tone.
For readers who love to get smarter without realizing it, ZOOM bursts with science writing at its best.
- See more at: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bob-berman/zoom/9780316217422/#desc
From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.
If
you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to
convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still
wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your
chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is
whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of sound.
Natural
motion dominates our lives and the intricate mechanics of the world
around us. In ZOOM, Bob Berman explores how motion shapes every aspect
of the universe, literally from the ground up. With an entertaining
style and a gift for distilling the wondrous, Berman spans astronomy,
geology, biology, meteorology, and the history of science, uncovering
how clouds stay aloft, how the Earth's rotation curves a home run's
flight, and why a mosquito's familiar whine resembles a telephone's dial
tone.
For readers who love to get smarter without realizing it, ZOOM bursts with science writing at its best.
- See more at: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bob-berman/zoom/9780316217422/#desc
From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.
If
you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to
convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still
wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your
chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is
whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of sound.
Natural
motion dominates our lives and the intricate mechanics of the world
around us. In ZOOM, Bob Berman explores how motion shapes every aspect
of the universe, literally from the ground up. With an entertaining
style and a gift for distilling the wondrous, Berman spans astronomy,
geology, biology, meteorology, and the history of science, uncovering
how clouds stay aloft, how the Earth's rotation curves a home run's
flight, and why a mosquito's familiar whine resembles a telephone's dial
tone.
For readers who love to get smarter without realizing it, ZOOM bursts with science writing at its best.
- See more at: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bob-berman/zoom/9780316217422/#desc