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020    $a 1101985186 (ebook)
020    $a 9781101985182 (ebook)
020    $a 110198516X (hardcover)
020    $a 9781101985168 (hardcover)
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100 1  $a Mitchell, Alanna, $e author.
245 14 $a The spinning magnet : $b the force that created the modern world--and could destroy it / $c Alanna Mitchell.
263    $a 1801
264  1 $a New York, New York : $b Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, $c [2018]
300    $a 323 pages ; $c 24 cm
504    $a Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0  $a Preface. Playing with the universe -- Part I. Magnet -- The beginning of things -- The unpaired spinning electron -- Parking in the shadow of magnetism's forgotten man -- Into whose embrace iron leaps -- Revolutions on paper -- The Earth;s magnetic soul -- Voyage into the underworld -- The greatest scientific undertaking the world had ever seen -- The rock that turned the world upside down -- Part II. Current -- Experiment in Copenhagen -- A very intimate relationship -- Jars full of lightning -- The apothecary's son -- The bookbinder's apprentice -- Magnets making currents -- The lines that fill the air -- Part III. Core -- The contorting gyre -- Shocks inside the Earth -- Pharaohs, fairies, and a tar-paper shack -- Zebra skins under the sea -- At the outer edge of the dynamo -- Anomaly to the South -- The worst physics movie ever -- The great hazardous spinning sphere of sodium -- Part IV. Switch -- Looking up -- Horrors the lights foretold -- Lethal patches -- The cost of catastrophe -- Trout noses and pigeon beaks -- A suit of stiff black crayon.
520    $a A prize-winning science journalist narrates the history of electromagnetism and discusses how the earth{u2019}s magnetic force field is eroding 10 times faster than previously believed, which will result in pole reversal and seriously dire consequences for modern technology.
650  0 $a Electromagnetism.
650  0 $a Magnetic fields.
650  0 $a Geomagnetism.
650  0 $a Solar radiation $x Health aspects.
651  0 $a Earth (Planet) $x Mantle.
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