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Potter has a solid grounding in science but is not himself a scientist. Harpercollins e books 0 0 0 summary you are here is not just physics for poets, but. View the profiles of people named christopher potter. Christopher potters narrative is as imaginative, ingenious, and elegantly concise as it is userfriendly. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext.
Stuart jeffries talks to christopher potter about his new book a. Christopher potter s you are here is a lively and accessible biography of the universehow it fits together and how we fit into itin the style of science writers like richard dawkins, bill bryson, and richard feynman, as seen through the lens of todays most cuttingedge scientific thinking. Buy you are here by christopher potter from waterstones today. You are here is an exhilarating journey that shows the cosmos as it has never been seen before. He provides facts, lets us in on debates, traces the histories of key developments, and points out where there still is work to be done. A portable history of the universe by potter, christopher isbn. You are here is a dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it.
He tells the story of how something evolved from nothing and how something became everything. You are here is not just physics for poets, but as close to poetry or music as science is ever. May 03, 2010 click here to buy you are here by christopher potter on paperback and find more of your favourite sciencemath books in rarus online book store. In this short book, potter sets out to cover the current state of human knowledge of the universe. In 2004, after 17 years at fourth estate, potter left to pursue a career as a writer. That is if you re at all interested in the universe or multiverse, our solar system, our planet thats earth for most of us, and our species homo sapiens sapiens sic. Read free book excerpt from you are here by christopher potter, page 2 of 2. As a boy, christopher potter enjoyed writing out his full, cosmic. Starting with the human body as a reference point, he expands the measuring rod by orders of ten, moving from large animals to the tallest buildings up through planets, stars and entire galaxies, to the largest of all objects. Because intelligent, smart, wellinformed people are sexy.
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Christopher potter has 12 books on goodreads with 2668 ratings. In you are here, christopher potter takes up the challenge of presenting the history of our universe in a concise and entertaining fashion for the curious nonscientists among us. Mar 03, 2009 the subtitle, a portable history of the universe, indicates how ambitious the authors goal was in writing the book. Potters writing flows, is unaffected unusual for the genre and reeks of authority acquired over a lifetime of dispassionate and intelligent observation.
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