Canon（ISBN=9780547053462）

In this exuberant book, the best-selling author Natalie Angier distills the scientific canon to the absolute essentials, delivering an entertaining and inspiring one-stop science education. Angier interviewed a host of scientists, posing the simple question "What do you wish everyone knew about your field?" The Canon provides their answers, taking readers on a joyride through the fascinating fundamentals of the incredible world around us and revealing how they are relevant to us every day. Angier proves a rabble-rousing, wisecracking, deeply committed tour guide in her irresistible exploration of the scientific process and the basic concepts of physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology, cellular and molecular biology, geology, and astronomy. Even science-phobes will find her passion infectious as she strives "to make the invisible visible, the distant neighborly, the ineffable affable."

Natalie Angier is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the New York Times and a frequent contributor to many magazines. Her honors include the Lewis Thomas Award and the AAAS Science Journalism Award. She lives near Washington, D.C., with her husband and their daughter.

Introduction: Sisyphus Sings with a Ying
1. Thinking Scientifically: An Out-of-Body Experience 
2. Probabilities: For Whom the Bell Curves 
3. Calibration: Playing with Scales 
4. Physics: And Nothing's Plenty for Me 
5. Chemistry: Fire, Ice, Spies, and Life 
6. Evolutionary Biology: The Theory of Every Body 
7. Molecular Biology: Cells and Whistles
8. Geology: Imagining World Pieces
9. Astronomy: Heavenly Creatures 
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