The Canon - by Natalie Angier (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy with this ebullient guide to science by a Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of <i>Woman, </i>a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us. <i>The Canon</i> is an ebullient celebration of science that stands to become a classic.</b><br/>Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists and on her own work as a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The <i>New York Times</i>, Natalie Angier creates a thoroughly entertaining guide to scientific literacy. <br/><i>The Canon</i> is vital reading for anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our time -- from stem cells and bird flu to evolution and global warming. And it's for every parent who has ever panicked when a child asked how the earth was formed or what electricity is. <br/>Angier's sparkling prose and memorable metaphors bring the science to life, reigniting our own childhood delight in discovering how the world works. The Canon is a joyride through the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. Along the way, we learn what is actually happening when our ice cream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when we eat a caramel, why the horse is an example of evolution at work, and how we're all really made of stardust. It's Lewis Carroll meets Lewis Thomas -- a book that will enrapture, inspire, and enlighten. The Canon is an ebullient celebration of science that stands to become a classic.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Every sentence sparkles with wit and charm. . . it all adds up to an intoxicating cocktail of fine science writing. --Richard Dawkins <p/>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 <p/>An essential experience . . . How dare she write so artfully, explain so brilliantly, rendering us scientists simultaneously proud and inarticulate! --Leon Lederman, Nobel laureate <p/>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 <p/>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 <p/>Exuberant . . . She writes with such verve, humor, and warmth. Library Journal Starred <p/>This bestselling author's love of words is writ large here . . . the excitement and challenge of science [is] masterfully conveyed. Kirkus Reviews, Starred <p/>Angier is a nimble stylist with a playful sense of alliteration and consonance. --Ben Dickinson Elle <p/>An excellent introduction (or refresher) to the beautiful basics of science, and I hope it is widely read. --Steven Pinker The New York Times Book Review<br>
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