The Canon A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science |
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Author:
| Angier, Natalie |
Read by:
| Doukas, Nike |
ISBN: | 978-1-59887-089-3 |
Publication Date: | May 2007 |
Publisher: | HighBridge Company
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Book Format: | CD-Audio |
List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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A playful, passionate, ebullient guide to the science all around us by a Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author. Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists and her own work as an award-winning science writer, Natalie Angier does the impossible: She makes science fascinating and seriously fun, even for those of us who, in Angier's words, "still can't tell...
More DescriptionA playful, passionate, ebullient guide to the science all around us by a Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author.
Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists and her own work as an award-winning science writer, Natalie Angier does the impossible: She makes science fascinating and seriously fun, even for those of us who, in Angier's words, "still can't tell the difference between a proton, a photon, and a moron."
Most of the profound questions we will explore in our lives-evolution, global warming, stem cells-have to do with science. So do a lot of everyday things, like our ice cream melting and our coffee getting cold and our vacuum cleaner running (or not). What does our liver do when we eat a caramel? How does the horse demonstrate evolution at work? Are we really made of stardust? (Yes, we are.)
In The Canon, Lewis Thomas meets Lewis Carroll in a book destined to become a modern classic-because it quenches our curiosity, sparks our interest in the world around us, reignites our childhood delight in discovering how things work, and instantly makes us smarter.