The Edge of the Unknown: 101 Things You Don't Know About Science and No One Else Does Either

Trefil, James

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ISBN 10: 0395728622 ISBN 13: 9780395728628

Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1996

Language: English

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The Edge of the Unknown: 101 Things You Don't Know About Science and No One Else Does Either

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin, Boston

Publication Date

1996

Language

English

ISBN 10

0395728622

ISBN 13

9780395728628

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hardcover

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1st.

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Fine copy in fine dust jacket

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A physicist and science commentator for National Public Radio offers an entertaining, highly accessible look at the most pressing questions in science today, including the likelihood of extra-terrestrial intelligence and of a medicinal cure for tumors.

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James Strefil is Robinson Professor of Physics at George Mason University.

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