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Title

The canon : a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science / Natalie Angier.

Author

Angier, Natalie.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.

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• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Description

293 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Award-winning science journalist Angier takes us on a "guided twirligig through the scientific canon." She draws on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists, and her own work as a reporter for the New York Times, to create an entertaining guide to scientific literacy--a joyride through the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. It's for anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our time--from stem cells and bird flu to evolution and global warming. It's also one of those rare books that reignites our childhood delight in figuring out how things work: we learn what's actually happening when our ice cream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when we eat a caramel, how the horse shows evolution at work, and that we really are all made of stardust.--From publisher description.

Subject

• Science > Popular works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-279) and index.

Contents

Thinking scientifically -- Probabilities -- Calibration -- Physics -- Chemistry -- Evolutionary biology -- Molecular biology -- Geology -- Astronomy.

Call Number

JSE 07-902

ISBN

• 0618242953
• 9780618242955

LCCN

2006026871

OCLC

71006705

Author

Angier, Natalie.

Title

The canon : a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science / Natalie Angier.

Imprint

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-279) and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Research Call Number

JSE 07-902