Flanagan's Version: A Spectator's Guide to Science on the Eve of the 21st Century - Softcover

Flanagan, Dennis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679721568 ISBN 13: 9780679721567

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1989

Synopsis

A tight clean softcover, no markings throughout:\n Flanagan's writing makes science accessible and exciting. He shows how science is an important, cultural activity--one which he has found continuously fascinating in his 37 years as an editor of Scientific American. Selecting four areas--physics, astronomy, geology, and biology--he examines the discoveries which he believes make them the areas of most significant growth at the present time. He has not included medicine because he thinks the greatest changes are yet to come with the further development of molecular biology. Weaving together narratives which include interesting anecdotes about the scientists, the circumstances of their work, historical fact, and scientific facts, Flanagan offers a book that fits together beautifully and makes the point that modern scientists are "travelers on a common road," for advances in one field often have impact on knowledge in another. This book will encourage many readers to become interested in science as a career because of the excitement and vision it conveys.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679721568
• ISBN 13: 9780679721567
• Binding: Paperback