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

Trefil, James

ISBN 10: 0395728622 / ISBN 13: 9780395728628

Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1996

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8vo, 355 pp.

Seller Inventory # 081446

Bibliographic Details

• Title: 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
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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