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The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension | 
 enlarge | Author: Joy Hakim
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 17410
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 480
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 1588341623
Dewey Decimal Number: 509
EAN: 9781588341624
ASIN: 1588341623
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
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P Sometimes it can seem like science just comes fully formed--a textbook can tell us the Milky Way is a galaxy, the Sun is 93 million miles away, or gravity bends light. But such a book often leaves out some of the most interesting stuff about that hard-won knowledge: how anyone ever figured it out, and even why anyone was wondering about it to begin with. P It turns out that those stories--the stories of the how and the why--are some of the most interesting in all of history. Those stories are full of adventure and bravery, boldness and luck, and the discoverers are often those willing to stand up and call false what everyone else believes to be true. At the end of the nineteenth century, for example, Lord Kelvin, one of the time's preeminent physicists--and the sort of guy who everyone else listens to, just because--declared that all that was left to do in physics was to make more and more precise measurements of the world. Within a couple decades of Kelvin's pronouncement, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and others would show just how wrong he was. P Joy Hakim's iThe Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension/i culminates with their discoveries: the quantum world, the theory of relativity, and nuclear physics. These discoveries created our modern world, from solar-powered calculators to cell phones to global positioning systems and the atomic bomb, and opened our eyes to the expanding Universe, the Big Bang, and much more. PA science book unlike any other, iEinstein Adds a New Dimension/i pairs a gripping narrative style with informative sidebars; hundreds of charts, maps, and diagrams; suggestions for further reading; and excerpts from the writings of great scientists.
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Ecstatic May 5, 2008
Debapriya Dasgupta (India)
Book was great. Probably an improvement over the previious two, which I did not think was possible. My daughters love the book and thereby started to love Science even more.
All science books should be written like this March 2, 2008
William R. Klemm
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Joy Hakim's book on modern physics is the most exciting science book I have read in my 45-plus years as a scientist. The book truly is, as she puts it, "written for young thinkers of all ages." She doesn't call it a "textbook," but the book not only is that, it is also the way all science textbooks should be written. To her, physics is not just a body of observations and theories; it is the process of discovery. br / br /Although Einstein's thinking is the underlying centerpiece of the book, Hakim deftly traverses, without mathematics, the whole history of physics from electromagnetism, atomic structure and chemical bonding to special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, quarks, supernovae, dark matter, dark energy, and more. This is a story-book journey of discovery that is described in terms of the people involved. Physics is brought to life in a most engaging way. On every page it seems, physics, the mother of all science, is embellished with side-bar stories about key discoveries, how they were made and the lives of the people who made them. Numerous color photographs adorn the pages throughout. br / br /The two great and exciting present-day frontiers of scientific research are physics and neuroscience. Joy's book almost makes me wish, after a lifetime of being a neuroscientist, that I had started off in physics. Science is great fun, and this book proves it. br / br /Bill Klemm, author of "Thank You Brain for All You Remember. What You Forgot Was My Fault" and "`Dillos. Roadkill on Extinction Highway?" (both available on Amazon.com) br /
 Wrong title September 20, 2007
P. M. Gittings (Sydney, Australia)
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
Another well written and produced volume in this series however, the series of books should be called the Story of Physics not the Story of Science. It covers very well, and in an engaging manner, the history and development of physics and the characters that populate that history. However, there is a big failing in the series so far. There is no attention given to biology. I'm left wondering if biology and a discussion of evolution is just too hot a topic for an American writer and audience. Having said that the series is good to have on hand for the kids to dip into so that they can learn a bit more about the subjects and scientists they are learning about in their Science classes. Not bad for the parents to pick up a few interesting facts either. br / br /
Science, History, Vocabulary! Oh MY! November 7, 2006
Mayone Woodbury (Seattle, WA United States)
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
This book is informative and interesting, not dry and/or stuffy like most science books. This is the 2nd or 3rd in the "Story of Science" series that I have purchased and I would highly recommend them to anyone. Joy Hakim not only writes about science, but she writes about how the world was when these scientists were making their discoveries and the struggles they had while doing so. Another great feature is that any word the reader might not know and understand is explained in the margins.
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