A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
Houghton Mifflin
May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 0618242953
EAN: 9780618242955
Hardcover
$27.00
Non-Fiction
With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made
WOMAN an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on
a “guided twirligig through the scientific canon.” She draws
on conversations with hundreds of the world’s top
scientists, and her own work as a Pulitzer Prize–winning
reporter for the New York Times, to create a thoroughly
entertaining guide to scientific literacy. People
magazine
says, “Angier has that rare dual talent: a true passion for
science combined with a poet’s linguistic flair.” Those
gifts are on full display in THE CANON, an ebullient
celebration of science that stands to become a classic. THE CANON is a joyride through the major scientific disciplines:
physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. It’s
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. It’s also one of those rare books that
reignites our childhood delight in figuring out how things
work: we learn what’s actually happening when our ice cream
melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when
we eat a caramel, how the horse shows evolution at work, and
that we really are all made of stardust. It’s Lewis Carroll
meets Lewis Thomas—a book that will enrapture, inspire, and
enlighten.
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