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The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science

The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science

by NatalieAngier (Author)

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    Hardcover 2008

    $3.44

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    Paperback 2008

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    Hardcover 2007

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Synopsis

Unless we are brilliant at science in our teenage years, many of us put off childish things - science museums, an interest in palaeontology - in favour of art galleries, museums and concert halls. A cultured person, Natalie Angier argues, should know about the classic ideas of physics and evolutionary biology as well as the classic works of Beethoven and Picasso. Drawing on conversations with hundreds 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 for anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our age - from stem cell research to bird flu and global warming - this is a joyride through the great subjects that explain the machinery of this place we call home.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 304
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 17 Jan 2008
ISBN 10: 0571239714
ISBN 13: 9780571239719
Book Overview: Every cultured person should know a few big things about science. Wonderfully bright and engaging, this book tells you what they are.

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
Natalie Angier writes about biology for the New York Times, for which she has won a Pulitzer Prize and other honours. She is the author of The Beauty of the Beastly, Natural Obsessions and the New York Times bestseller Woman: An Intimate Geography. Angier lives with her family in Washington, D.C.