Magic Universe
A Grand Tour of Modern Science
Science
Nigel Calder
Oxford University Press 2005
Paperback 756 pages  
0192806696 | 9780192806697 |  Product code: 86723  
Written by a prize-winning popularizer of science, this imaginative and very accessible 'grand tour' of the horizons of scientific knowledge is arranged as 'a set of short stories about fundamental research, recent and current, and where it seems to be heading'. Over 100 topics are covered, arranged alphabetically from Alcohol to Volcanic Explosions and including areas of science as diverse as linguistics and quarks, memory and the microwave background, relativity and stem cells. Off-mint.
 
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