Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 320 pages
- Published by: Anchor December 1, 1990
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 038526108X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0385261081
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Book Dimensions:
7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 8 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
These 18 lucid essays on chemistry, physics, geology, astronomy and biology help readers comprehend today's science news. "Hazen and Trefil . . . demystify many advanced topics with succinct, if often reductive analogies: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle becomes a car wreck in a dark tunnel, for example," said PW. Illustrated.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Review
"Easily one of the finest available single-volume introductions to science."--
Kirkus Review "Comprehensible and carefully paced."--
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