Loading cart contents...
Caesar’s Last Breath: The Epic Story of The Air Around Us
12.99 JOD
Please allow 2 – 5 weeks for delivery of this item
Description
** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 **‘Popular science at its best’Mail on Sunday‘Eminently accessible and enjoyable’ObserverWith every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds in the Roman Senate, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding. In fact, you’re probably inhaling some of it now. Of the sextillions of molecules entering or leaving your lungs at this moment, some might also bear traces of Cleopatra’s perfumes, German mustard gas, particles exhaled by dinosaurs or emitted by atomic bombs, even remnants of stardust from the universe’s creation. In Caesar’s Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe and across time to tell the epic story of the air we breathe.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.262 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 2.4 × 12.7 × 19.8 cm |
| by | |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 384 |
| publisher | |
| Year Published | 2018-7-12 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1784162930 |
| About The Author | Sam Kean spent years collecting mercury from broken thermometers as a child and now he is a writer in Washington DC. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, Air & Space/Smithsonian and New Scientist. In 2009 he was a runner-up for the National Association of Science Writers' Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for best science writer under the age of thirty. He currently writes for Science. His first book, The Disappearing Spoon, was a New York Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Royal Society's Winton Prize for science writing. |
| Review Quote | Absorbing, entertaining… provocative but compelling… eminently accessible and enjoyable. A real gas – in short! |
| Other text | Funny, clever and altogether effervescent… Kean writes superbly about science itself… A joy for any reader |
Related products
-
![]()
On backorder 2-5 Weeks to Arrive
140.00 JOD -
![]()
On backorder 2-5 Weeks to Arrive
10.99 JOD -
![]()
On backorder 2-5 Weeks to Arrive
90.00 JOD -
![]()
On backorder 2-5 Weeks to Arrive
100.00 JOD
