1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Science

by James S. Trefil and James Trefil

Book Overview

Addresses questions such as: How id wings evolve; What do rocks tell us about the earth's shifting magnetic field; How did Louis Pasteur disprove spontaneous generation; Why did English moths turn... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385247958
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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Do I Need To Know This Much About Science?

Do I Need To Know This Much About Science? I'm not sure but certainly I need to know something, if only so I don't look like an idiot in front of my school age son. I picked this one up as an addition to our growing reference library after standing and browsing through it in the book store. The information is easy to read and comprehend while not written as if the reader is a science dummy (whcih I am). From Classic Biology, Plant Reproduction and Evolution right through to The Genetic Code and Quantum Mechanics, there literally are 1001 things to read and learn about and the book is very handy as a side car to school science lessons from elementary through high school. It isn't anything I would sit down and read cover to cover, but is constantly used by students around the neighborhood and passed hand to hand by theose in need of homework help.

Encyclopedic science and technological review

Written for even the casual reader on scientific matters, this volume filters out the redundant and the superfluous, wrings the waste from scientific understanding and allows the reader to digest information in intellectual mouthfuls, rather than being goose-fed with more than can be understood. Exceptionally appropriate volume for secondary students as a supplement to cultural literacy studies. Easily implemented for gifted students.

1 thing you should know about this book

Reasonably good and handy reference. The guy who wrote it is a physicist by trade, and the weird thing is that a lot of his discussions of that topic are among the most oblique in the book. This quirk aside, and with some reservations on the choice of "important" things to know and some convoluted ways of saying things (look who's talking), this is useful refresher-course stuff.--J.Ruch

a great middle school reference

I have used this for 7 years for my academic team. It is still the best primer on science I have found. I personally enjoy its question -answer format. Trefil interjects just enough humor to keep things light.