Description: What's Gotten Into You : The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner, Paperback by Levitt, Dan, ISBN 0063251205, ISBN-13 9780063251205, Brand New, Free shipping in the US For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are. Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms than all the grains of sand in the earth’s deserts. If you weigh 150 pounds, you’ve got enough carbon to make 25 pounds of charcoal, enough salt to fill a saltshaker, enough chlorine to disinfect several backyard swimming pools, and enough iron to forge a 3-inch nail. But how did these elements combine to make us human? All matter—everything around us and within us—has an ultimate birthday: the day the universe was born. This informative, eye-opening, and eminently readabl is the story of our atoms’ long strange journey from the Big Bang to the creation of stars, through the assembly of Planet Earth, and the formation of life as we know it. It’s also the story of the scientists who made groundbreaking discoveries and unearthed extraordinary insights into the composition of life. Behind their unexpected findings were investigations marked by fierce rivalries, obsession, heartbreak, flashes of insight, and flukes of blind luck. Ultimately they’ve helped us understand the mystery of our existence: how a quadrillion atoms made of particles from the Big Bang now animate each of our cells. Shaped by the curious mind and bold vision of science and history documentarian Dan Levitt, this wondrous book is no less than the story of life itself.
Price: 19.36 USD
Location: Jessup, Maryland
End Time: 2025-01-25T23:42:15.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Book Title: What's Gotten into You : The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Topic: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History, Physics / Nuclear, Physics / General
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: Science, History
Item Weight: 10.6 Oz
Author: Dan Levitt
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
