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

Trefil, James S.

ISBN 10: 0395728622 / ISBN 13: 9780395728628

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1996

About this Item

Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 355 pages. Table of Connections, Index. First edition, first printing with full number line. A fascinating compendium of cutting edge scientific research and technical breakthroughs, coupled with astute and well informed predictions of future miracles from current inquiries. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.

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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 Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395728622
• ISBN 13: 9780395728628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science and Technology

About this title

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.