The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity (Record no. 548250)
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| fixed length control field | 01982pam a2200217a 44500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780349123677 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 530.11 PRO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Professor Pedro G. Ferreira |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | "Ferreira, Professor Pedro G." |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | United Kingdom |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | "Little, Brown Book Group" |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 4-Jun-15 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 320 |
| Other physical details | Paperback |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | 9.99 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is possibly the most perfect intellectual achievement in modern physics. Anything that involves gravity, the force that powers everything on the largest, hottest or densest of scales, can be explained by it. From the moment Einstein first proposed the theory in 1915, it was received with enthusiasm yet also with tremendous resistance, and for the following ninety years was the source of a series of feuds, vendettas, ideological battles and persecutions featuring a colourful cast of characters. A gripping, vividly told story, A Perfect Theory entangles itself with the flashpoints of modern history and is the first complete popular history of the theory, showing how it has informed our understanding of exactly what the universe is made of and how much is still undiscovered: from the work of the giant telescopes in the deserts of Chile to our newest ideas about black holes and the Large Hadron Collider deep under French and Swiss soil." |
| 521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE | |
| Target audience note | General (US: Trade) |
| 586 ## - AWARDS NOTE | |
| Awards note | Long-listed for Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2014. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Relativity physics |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Popular science |
| 906 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT F, LDF (RLIN) | |
| Category | 198 |
| Subcategory | 132 |
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| 11/02/2016 | PN105772 | 13/05/2017 | On shelf | 6 | 530.11 | 11/02/2016 | 10/06/2017 | Dewey Decimal Classification | General Books | 13/05/2017 | 12 | Science and Beyond Lecture Series | ||||||
| 09/01/2016 | CA00014908 | 25/11/2017 | On shelf | Colombo | 2 | 530.11/FER | 09/01/2016 | 16/12/2017 | Dewey Decimal Classification | General Books | 25/11/2017 | 13 | Colombo | |||||
| 09/01/2016 | CA00014908 | 27/04/2024 | On shelf | Colombo | 11 | 530.11/FER | 09/01/2016 | Dewey Decimal Classification | General Books | 30/03/2024 | 32 | Colombo | Book Cart |