The Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and author of Woman draws on interviews with hundreds of the world's top scientists to offer an entertaining guide to scientific literacy, exploring the fundamental principles of the major scientific disciplines of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy and their link to the world around us. 75,000 first printing.
- Pages
- 293
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780618242955