Guide to Science: The Physical Sciences & The Biological Sciences
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Faded and slightly creased spine.
Isaac Asimov's two volume "Guide to Science" stands as a landmark work of popular science writing, splitting the entire span of human scientific knowledge into "The Physical Sciences" and "The Biological Sciences." Volume one covers mathematics, physics, chemistry, and astronomy, tracing matter and energy from the subatomic particle to the origins of the universe, while volume two charts the story of life itself, from cell biology and genetics through evolution, the human body, and the brain. Asimov presents each discipline with the clarity and narrative drive that made him one of the twentieth century's great science communicators, turning a full survey of the sciences into a genuinely readable account rather than a dry reference text.
Author: Isaac Asimov
Format: Paperback
Published: 1975, Penguin Books Ltd
Genre: Physics
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Faded and slightly creased spine.
Isaac Asimov's two volume "Guide to Science" stands as a landmark work of popular science writing, splitting the entire span of human scientific knowledge into "The Physical Sciences" and "The Biological Sciences." Volume one covers mathematics, physics, chemistry, and astronomy, tracing matter and energy from the subatomic particle to the origins of the universe, while volume two charts the story of life itself, from cell biology and genetics through evolution, the human body, and the brain. Asimov presents each discipline with the clarity and narrative drive that made him one of the twentieth century's great science communicators, turning a full survey of the sciences into a genuinely readable account rather than a dry reference text.