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A Field Guide to the Invisible

A Field Guide to the Invisible

A Field Guide to the Invisible
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A Field Guide to the Invisible Hardback - 1998 - 1st Edition

by Wayne Biddle

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Henry Holt & Company, 1998-05-15. hardcover. Very Good. 5x0x9. Ex-Library copy with some moderate shelf wear. A portion of your purchase of this book will be donated to non-profit organizations.Over 1,000,000 satisfied customers since 1997! Choose expedited shipping (if available) for much faster delivery. Delivery confirmation on all US orders.
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  • Title A Field Guide to the Invisible
  • Author Wayne Biddle
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Henry Holt & Company, New York
  • Publication date 1998-05-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 10822836
  • ISBN 9780805050691 / 0805050698
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.58 x 5.71 x 0.82 in (24.33 x 14.50 x 2.08 cm)
  • Size 5x0x9
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97039178
  • Dewey Decimal Code 500
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

In this witty and captivating blend of science, humor, metaphysics, and popular culture, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author catalogs the invisible sphere that surrounds us.
Much of everyday experience takes place beyond the range of our senses. And in our contemporary predicament, where so much seems beyond personal control, what is invisible generates an index of what we are. A" Field Guide to the Invisible" is a layman's guide to the inescapable stew we're in, a thought-provoking catalogue of life's ingredients that are literally out of sight and therefore too often out of mind.
In medieval times, everyone knew the air was rife with menacing spirits--the souls of unbaptized babies, graveyard ghouls, winged demons who could rip the unwary from the world of the senses. In our own age of chronic low-dose exposure to sundry radiations; of infections from exotic microbes; of a biosphere so radically changed by the hand of man that the natural protections it once provided are no longer assured, it is still the invisible that worries us most. "A Field Guide to the Invisible" maps points in a parallel world, ignored at our peril, that we inhabit simultaneously with the one before our very eyes.

About the author

Wayne Biddle, author of "Barons of the Sky," "Coming to Te"rms, and "A Field Guide to Germ"s (Holt, 0-8050-3531-1), is at work on a full-scale biography of Wernher von Braun called "Dark Side of the Moon." He lives with his family in Washington, D.C.

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