The Spinning Magnet
The Electromagnetic Force That Created the Modern World--and Could Destroy It
The mystery of Earth's invisible, life-supporting powerAlanna Mitchell's globe-trotting history of the science of electromagnetism and the Earth's magnetic field--right up to the latest indications that the North and South Poles may soon reverse, with apocalyptic results--will soon change the way you think about our planet.Award-winning journalist Alanna Mitchell's science storytelling introduce intriguing characters--from the thirteenth-century French investigations into magnetism and the Victorian-era discover that electricity and magnetism emerge from the same fundamental force to the latest research. No one has ever told so eloquently how…
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- ISBN: 978-1-101-98516-8
- EAN: 9781101985168
- Produktnummer: 22960302
- Verlag: Penguin Putnam
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H23.7 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.9 cm 532 g
- Gewicht: 532
Über den Autor
ALANNA MITCHELL is an acclaimed science journalist and author of Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis, which won the Grantham Prize for excellence in environmental journalism. She won a National Magazine Award in 2014 for a feature on the biology of extinction and in 2015 won a New York International Radio Festival Silver Medal for her science documentary on neonicotinoid pesticides. She has written for The New York Times Science section and is a contributor to CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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