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Why icebergs float : exploring science everyday life /

From paintings and food to illness and icebergs, science is happening everywhere. Rather than follow the path of a syllabus or textbook, Andrew Morris takes examples from the science we see every day and uses them as entry points to explain a number of fundamental scientific concepts - from understa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Morris, Andrew (Science teacher)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : UCL Press, 2016.
Series:	Open Access e-Books Knowledge Unlatched
Subjects:	Science > Popular works. Sciences > Ouvrages de vulgarisation. SCIENCE > General. Science. Electronic books. Popular works.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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