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  The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science (Paperback) By (author) Natalie Angier

  

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  Short Description for The CanonBuckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy with this ebullient guide to science by a Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author.
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  • Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
  • Published: 08 May 2007
  • Format: Paperback 293 pages
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  • Categories: Science: General Issues
  • ISBN 13: 9780547053462 ISBN 10: 0547053460
  • Sales rank: 313,567

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• In this exuberant book, the best-selling author Natalie Angier distills the scientific canon to the absolute essentials, delivering an entertaining and inspiring one-stop science education. Angier interviewed a host of scientists, posing the simple question "What do you wish everyone knew about your field?" The Canon provides their answers, taking readers on a joyride through the fascinating fundamentals of the incredible world around us and revealing how they are relevant to us every day. Angier proves a rabble-rousing, wisecracking, deeply committed tour guide in her irresistible exploration of the scientific process and the basic concepts of physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology, cellular and molecular biology, geology, and astronomy. Even science-phobes will find her passion infectious as she strives "to make the invisible visible, the distant neighborly, the ineffable affable."