Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy

From Publishers Weekly
These 18 lucid essays on chemistry, physics, geology, astronomy and biology help readers comprehend today's science news. "Hazen and Trefil . . . demystify many advanced topics with succinct, if often reductive analogies: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle becomes a car wreck in a dark tunnel, for example," said PW. Illustrated.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Review
"Easily one of the finest available single-volume introductions to science."-- Kirkus Review

"Comprehensible and carefully paced."--Booklist -- Review --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.