Why Icebergs Float: Exploring Science in Everyday Life
From paintings and food to illness and icebergs, science is happening everywhere. Rather than follow the path of a syllabus or textbook, Andrew Morris takes examples from the science we see every day and uses them as entry points to explain a number of fundamental scientific concepts – from understa...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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