The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Angier, Natalie
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0618242953
- ISBN 13
- 9780618242955
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Synopsis
In this exuberant book, the best-selling author Natalie Angier distills the scientific canon to the absolute essentials, delivering an entertaining and inspiring one-stop science education. Angier interviewed a host of scientists, posing the simple question What do you wish everyone knew about your field?” The Canon provides their answers, taking readers on a joyride through the fascinating fundamentals of the incredible world around us and revealing how they are relevant to us every day. Angier proves a rabble-rousing, wisecracking, deeply committed tour guide in her irresistible exploration of the scientific process and the basic concepts of physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology, cellular and molecular biology, geology, and astronomy. Even science-phobes will find her passion infectious as she strives "to make the invisible visible, the distant neighborly, the ineffable affable."
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- Bookseller
- tuckerstomes (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62665
- Title
- The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
- Author
- Angier, Natalie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0618242953
- ISBN 13
- 9780618242955
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2007
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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