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

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).

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

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).

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

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

by James S. Trefil
101 Things You Don't Know about Science and No One Else Does Either

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

by James S. Trefil

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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

ISBN-13: 9780544309395
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: 11/28/1997
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

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.

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