101 Things You Don't Know about - Science and No One Else

Zusatztext "It is no mean feat to explain Quasars in Just a few pages." Publishers Weekly "makes sense of science for the rest of us" The Washington Post Informationen zum Autor James Trefil, the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Physics at George Mason University, is the author or coauthor of more than thirty books, including The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. Klappentext James Trefil takes the reader on a thrilling tour across the borders of current scientific knowledge-from astronomy to genetics, from information technology to cosmology, the great contested questions that preoccupy researchers today and will become headlines tomorrow. In elegant, witty three-page summations, Dr. Trefil "makes sense of science for the rest of us" (Washington Post). Zusammenfassung James Trefil takes the reader on a thrilling tour across the borders of current scientific knowledge-from astronomy to genetics, from information technology to cosmology, the great contested questions that preoccupy researchers today and will become headlines tomorrow. In elegant, witty three-page summations, Dr. Trefil "makes sense of science for the rest of us" (Washington Post).

Product details

• Authors: James Trefil, James S Trefil, James S. Trefil
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.1997
• EAN: 9780395877401
• ISBN: 978-0-395-87740-1
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE: Life Sciences / General, SCIENCE: Earth Sciences / General, SCIENCE: Essays, SCIENCE: Reference, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING: Inventions, SCIENCE: Research & Methodology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING: Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING: Military Science, SCIENCE: Earth Sciences / Geography, SCIENCE: Earth Sciences / Oceanography, SCIENCE: Earth Sciences / Geology, SCIENCE: Study & Teaching, SCIENCE: Applied Sciences