How Things Are
Science Tool Kit for the Mind
2nd Edition
Published on 1. April 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-7538-0776-7 (ISBN)
Description
Some of the world's leading scientists have contributed original pieces - an elementary idea, a basic concept, a tool for thought - relevant to their field. These pieces together form an intellectual tool-kit for the intellectually curious to use in extending their reading in scientific areas. The pieces are arranged in thematic groups including Thinking about Science, Evolution, Mind, Cosmos and The Future and each essay is short, and is self-contained (no prior knowledge is required). Contributors include RICHARD DAWKINS, LEE SMOLIN, ALAN GUTH, STEPHEN JAY GOULD, STEVE JONES, LEWIS WOLPERT, NILES ELDREDGE, PAUL DAVIES and MARTIN REES.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
diagrams
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
261 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7538-0776-7 (9780753807767)
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Book
02/1997
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
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Persons
John Brockman, president of the Edge Foundation and a founder of The Reality Club, is a writer and literary agent based in New York. He is has written and edited twenty books, including The Third Culture, How Things Are: A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind and The Greatest Inventions of the past 2000 Years.