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101 Things You Don't Know about Science and No One Else Does Either Paperback - 1997

by James Trefil

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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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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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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  • Title 101 Things You Don't Know about Science and No One Else Does Either
  • Author James Trefil
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, Boston
  • Date 1997-11-14
  • ISBN 9780395877401 / 0395877407
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.1 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Science
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97036902
  • Dewey Decimal Code 500

Media reviews

"It is no mean feat to explain Quasars in Just a few pages." Publishers Weekly

"makes sense of science for the rest of us" The Washington Post

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