MARC details
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03623cam a22003858i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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on1381732906 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20230908105812.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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230429s2023 nyu b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2022062047 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
LBSOR |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
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OCLCF |
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UKMGB |
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OCLCQ |
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NFG |
| 015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER |
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| National bibliography number |
GBC3D5359 |
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bnb |
| 016 7# - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER |
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| Record control number |
021143440 |
| Source |
Uk |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780231210980 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0231210981 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1381732906 |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
523.1 |
| Item number |
H474 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Helfand, D. J. |
| Fuller form of name |
(David J.), |
| Dates associated with a name |
1950- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Universal Timekeepers : |
| Remainder of title |
reconstructing history atom by atom / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
David J. Helfand. |
| 263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE |
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| Projected publication date |
2312 |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Columbia University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
[2023] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
278 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content Type Term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
| Media Type Code |
n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier Type Term |
volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"They are 99.999999999999% empty space. Almost perfectly nothing. And yet they make up everything you see, touch, smell, taste, and feel. They feed and clothe you. Their motion makes you warm (and cold). They exist in splendid isolation and in highly complex assemblages. They tell time. And they can reveal secrets of the past that are otherwise unknowable. They are atoms. You've likely never seen an atom, even though they permeate your world. This is unsurprising when you realize that they are not just mostly emptiness, they are very, very tiny pieces of mostly emptiness -- it takes 10 million trillion of them to create a poppy seed. David Helfand's new book tells a quantitative history of the Universe over the past 13.8 billion years through a series of tales, always with atoms in the starring roles. We can use atoms to assign precise dates to works of human creativity, to trace the history of agriculture and human diet, to piece together the vicissitudes of past climate as an aid in understanding what the future might hold, and to reconstruct the history of our Solar System and the Universe itself. We can uncover art forgeries, identity the provenance of stolen statues, and determine the causes of death for ancient fellow humans (and what they ate for lunch the day they died). We can measure the Earth's temperature 100,000 years ago and relate it to the composition of the atmosphere at that time. We can date the formation of our planet and its moon and mark the origin of life on our calendar. With our exquisite understanding of atomic structure and its many variations we can, quite literally, reconstruct history atom by atom"-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Calling the witnesses to history -- Conceptualizing the atom : from philosophy to science -- The modern model : a utilitarian view -- The elements : our complete set of blocks -- Isotopes : elemental flavors -- Radioactivity : the imperturbable clock -- Stolen and forged : forensic art history -- The carbon clock : pinning down dates -- History without words : lime and lead and poop -- Agricultural evolution : human diet transformed -- Paleoclimate : taking the earth's temperature long ago -- The death of the dinosaurs : an atomic view -- Evolution : from meteorites to cyanobacteria -- What's up in the air? The evolving atmosphere -- Our sun's birthday : the solar system in formation -- Stardust creation : building the building blocks -- In the beginning -- Epilogue : a quark's tale. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Cosmochronology. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
291563 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Cosmology. |
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26736 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Atoms. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
31991 |
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NFG |
