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Objectstaat
Vrijwel nieuw: Een boek dat er als nieuw uitziet, maar al wel is gelezen. De kaft is niet zichtbaar ...
ISBN
9780618242955
Book Title
Canon : a Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
Item Length
9in
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication Year
2007
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1in
Author
Natalie Angier
Genre
Science
Topic
Reference, Essays
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a whirligig tour of the scientific canon. She draws on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists and on her own work as a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the New York Times to create a thoroughly entertaining guide to scientific literacy. Angier's gifts are on full display in The Canon, an ebullient celebration of science that stands to become a classic. The Canon is vital reading for anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our time -- from stem cells and bird flu to evolution and global warming. And it's for every parent who has ever panicked when a child asked how the earth was formed or what electricity is. Angier's sparkling prose and memorable metaphors bring the science to life, reigniting our own childhood delight in discovering how the world works. "Of course you should know about science," writes Angier, "for the same reason Dr. Seuss counsels his readers to sing with a Ying or play Ring the Gack: These things are fun and fun is good." The Canon is a joyride through the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. Along the way, we learn what is actually happening when our ice cream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when we eat a caramel, why the horse is an example of evolution at work, and how we're all really made of stardust. It's Lewis Carroll meets Lewis Thomas -- a book that will enrapture, inspire, and enlighten.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0618242953
ISBN-13
9780618242955
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57012357

Product Key Features

Book Title
Canon : a Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
Author
Natalie Angier
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Reference, Essays
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Q162.A59 2007
eBook Format
Glassbook
Reviews
"Natalie Angier provides a masterful, authoritative synthesis of the state of knowledge across the entire scientific landscape." --Howard Gardner, Harvard University, author of Five Minds for the Future and Frames of Mind, "Every sentence sparkles with wit and charm. . . it all adds up to an intoxicating cocktail of fine science writing." --Richard Dawkins "Natalie Angier provides a masterful, authoritative synthesis of the state of knowledge across the entire scientific landscape." --Howard Gardner, Harvard University, author of Five Minds for the Future and Frames of Mind "An essential experience . . . How dare she write so artfully, explain so brilliantly, rendering us scientists simultaneously proud and inarticulate!" --Leon Lederman, Nobel laureate "Every single sentence . . . sparkles with enough intelligence and wit to delight science-phobes and science-philes alike. I loved it!" --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bait and Switch and Nickel and Dimed "Natalie Angier makes planets and particles sexy. . .She turns guys with lab coats and pocket protectors into Daniel Craig." --Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind "Exuberant . . . She writes with such verve, humor, and warmth." Library Journal Starred "This bestselling author's love of words is writ large here . . . the excitement and challenge of science [is] masterfully conveyed." Kirkus Reviews, Starred "Angier is a nimble stylist with a playful sense of alliteration and consonance." --Ben Dickinson Elle "An excellent introduction (or refresher) to the beautiful basics of science, and I hope it is widely read." --Steven Pinker The New York Times Book Review, "Every single sentence . . . sparkles with enough intelligence and wit to delight science-phobes and science-philes alike. I loved it!" --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bait and Switch and Nickel and Dimed, "Natalie Angier makes planets and particles sexy. . .She turns guys with lab coats and pocket protectors into Daniel Craig." --Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind
Table of Content
Introduction: Sisyphus Sings with a Ying 1 1. Thinking Scientifically: An Out-of-Body Experience 18 2. Probabilities: For Whom the Bell Curves 47 3. Calibration: Playing with Scales 71 4. Physics: And Nothing's Plenty for Me 87 5. Chemistry: Fire, Ice, Spies, and Life 121 6. Evolutionary Biology: The Theory of Every Body 147 7. Molecular Biology: Cells and Whistles 183 8. Geology: Imagining World Pieces 212 9. Astronomy: Heavenly Creatures 235 References 267 Acknowledgments 280 Index 282
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2006-026871
Dewey Decimal
500
Dewey Edition
22

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