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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 Trefil, James
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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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BrandMariner Books
Pub dateNov 14, 1997
ISBN-100395877407
ISBN-139780395877401
Paperback368.0 pages
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions8.5 × 0.93 × 5.5 in
Weight1 lb
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