The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science - Softcover

Angier, Natalie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571239722 ISBN 13: 9780571239726

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2008

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Book by Natalie Angier

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"Every sentence sparkles with wit and charm. . . it all adds up to an intoxicating cocktail of fine science writing." --Richard Dawkins "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 "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 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 "Exuberant . . . She writes with such verve, humor, and warmth." "Angier is a nimble stylist with a playful sense of alliteration and consonance." --Ben Dickinson

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Unless we are brilliant at science in our teenage years, many of us put off 'childish things' - science museums, palaeontology - in favour of museums, art galleries and concert halls. A cultured person, Natalie Angier argues, should know about the classic ideas of physics and biology as well as the classic works of Beethoven and Picasso. Drawing on conversations with many of the world's leading scientists, Angier takes us on a vivid, good-humoured and informative tour of this neglected canon. An entertaining guide to scientific literacy - from stem-cell research to bird flu and global warming - that explains the machinery of this place we call home.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0571239722
• ISBN 13: 9780571239726
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304