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Death is cold and still, life hot and in motion. Hans Christian von
Baeyer’s Warmth Disperses and Time Passes explains in 20 crisp chapters
how physicists discovered the nature of heat, life’s invisible yet indispensable
prerequisite. Each chapter uses the words of an acknowledged genius—from
Rumford to Feynman—to explain the laws of thermodynamics and tell, in
human terms, how they were first imagined. Published by Modern Library,
£8.45/$13.95 ISBN 0375753729.