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Human Universe (Record no. 7547)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780007488803
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 599.93
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Cox, Brian
9 (RLIN) 381825
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Human Universe
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. HarperCollins Publishers;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 09 Oct 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 288 Pages;
Other physical details Hardback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum the laws of nature conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from. What is a human being? Objectively, nothing of consequence. Particles of dust in an infinite arena, present for an instant in eternity. Clumps of atoms in a universe with more galaxies than people. And yet a human being is necessary for the question itself to exist, and the presence of a question in the universe - any question - is the most wonderful thing. Questions require minds, and minds bring meaning. What is meaning? I don't know, except that the universe and every pointless speck inside it means something to me. I am astonished by the existence of a single atom, and find my civilisation to be an outrageous imprint on reality. I don't understand it. Nobody does, but it makes me smile. This book asks questions about our origins, our destiny, and our place in the universe. We have no right to expect answers; we have no right to even ask. But ask and wonder we do. Human Universe is first and foremost a love letter to humanity; a celebration of our outrageous fortune in existing at all. I have chosen to write my letter in the language of science, because there is no better demonstration of our magnificent ascent from dust to paragon of animals than the exponentiation of knowledge generated by science. Two million years ago we were apemen. Now we are spacemen. That has happened, as far as we know, nowhere else. That is worth celebrating.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Popular astronomy & space
9 (RLIN) 381826
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Popular science
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700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Cohen, Andrew
9 (RLIN) 381828
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi In Store 30/08/2016 2 599.93 PKLC024780 25/04/2018 09/03/2018 30/08/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 4 Science
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Science 23/05/2016 1 599.93 PKLC011481 02/04/2022 08/03/2022 23/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17