books by Philip Morrison (elementary vimanarama scientific)

books by Philip Morrison

books:

Powers of Ten: A Book About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero

3 reviews
Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison, ...

W.H. Freeman & Company, 1985

Powers of Ten -- a Flipbook
Charles and Ray Eames give us a photographic tour of the universe we can hold in our hands. Starting with a picture of the dark emptiness of at the edge of the universe, each page brings us closer to our galaxy, solar system, planet, and down to the one power of ten on which we humans live. But then we continue to dive deeper -- skin deep -- shrinking smaller and smaller through the cells, ...

Elementary Nuclear Theory
Hans A. Bethe and Philip Morrison

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1961

Second Edition of this college text. Interesting example of mid-20th century Nuclear Science.

Kill Your Boyfriend

4 reviews
Grant Morrison, Philip Bond

D C Comics (a division of Warner Brothers - A Time Warner Entertainment Co.), 1998

Boy meets girl, boy and girl go totally mental
A lovely short story from Grant Morrison, the genius reinventor of Doom Patrol and the current chronicler of The Invisibles. A sulky schoolgirl somewhere in suburban Britain meets a cheeky delinquent boy on the bus one day, and before your jaw can drop they've gone on a killing spree, hooked up with a bunch of anarcho-hippies on a bus, experimented wildly with their respective sexualities and ...

Powers of Ten (Revised) (Scientific American Library Paperback)

18 reviews
Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison

W.H. Freeman & Company, 1994

No doubt deserves 5 stars; SURPRIZE it can be a child's book
This is a great book. Believe it or not, I walk my 5 year old son through the pictures. I am sure it is not meant for youngsters but it can be used like I am am doing. The idea behind the book is on its smallest scale it is inside a qark inside an atomic nucleus, inside an atom, attached to a DNA molecule, inside a nucleus of a white blood cell, slightly below the skin on a hand of a man asleep ...

Vimanarama

2 reviews
Grant Morrison, Philip Bond

Titan Books Ltd, 2006

Now it's Ancient Indian Gods on a Rampage. Will it Never End?
As usual, Morrison throws a half a dozen ideas at you once. The main contrast is between the central character's suburban concerns as a young Pakistani living in Bradford about to meet his bride (it's an arranged marriage), and his blundering upon an ancient Hindu city below his uncle's shop. He and his fiance stumble around, unleash a pack of evil gods, and... you can guess the rest. These ...

the exploratorium: The Museum as Laboratory

1 review
Hilde Hein

Smithsonian Institution, 1990

Tale of an Historic, Interactive and Artfully Designed Museum in San Francisco
From back cover: "Since its opening in 1969 the Exploratorium in San Francisco has had a profound impact on the way people experience - and create - museums. Focusing on natural phenomena that exist worldwide, the Exploratorium contains over 600 innovative exhibits meant to be touched and manipulated, not just admired. In '"The Exploratorium: The Museum as Laboratory," Hilde Hein gathers ...