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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: canon
    sub title: a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science
  name:
    name part: Angier, Natalie.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 293 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Award-winning science journalist Angier takes us on a "guided twirligig through the scientific canon." She draws on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists, and her own work as a reporter for the New York Times, to create an entertaining guide to scientific literacy--a joyride through the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. It's for anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our time--from stem cells and bird flu to evolution and global warming. It's also one of those rare books that reignites our childhood delight in figuring out how things work: we learn what's actually happening when our ice cream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when we eat a caramel, how the horse shows evolution at work, and that we really are all made of stardust.--From publisher description.
  table of contents: Thinking scientifically -- Probabilities -- Calibration -- Physics -- Chemistry -- Evolutionary biology -- Molecular biology -- Geology -- Astronomy.
  note: Natalie Angier.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-279) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Science
    genre: Popular works
  classification: Q162 .A59 2007
  classification: 500
  identifier: 0618242953
  identifier: 9780618242955
  identifier: 2006026871
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 060816
    record change date: 20151105051634.0
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