The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Canon Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy with this ebullient guide to science by a Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author.
Full description- Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
- Published: 03 April 2008
- Format: Paperback 293 pages
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- Categories: Science: General Issues
- ISBN 13: 9780547053462 ISBN 10: 0547053460
- Sales rank: 223,644
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Full description for The Canon
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."
