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A comprehensive and accessible guide to understanding how radiation affects our everyday lives
Author: Wayne Biddle
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 07/31/2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780143121275
Audience: Young Adult
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2012 pg. 12
Choice 01/01/2013
About the Author
Wayne Biddle won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the "Star Wars" antimissile project. He is the author of five previous books, including A Field Guide to Germs, winner of the American Medical Writers Association's Walter C. Alvarez Honor Award, and Dark Side of the Moon, which was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University.
Nuclear energy, X-rays, radon, cell phones . . . radiation is part of the way we live on a daily basis, and yet the sources and repercussions of our exposure to it remain mysterious. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wayne Biddle offers a first-of-its-kind guide to understanding this fundamental aspect of the universe. From fallout to radiation poisoning, alpha particles to cosmic rays, Biddle illuminates the history, meaning, and health implications of one hundred scientific terms in succinct, witty essays. A Field Guide to Radiation is an essential, engaging handbook that offers wisdom and common sense for today's increasingly nuclear world.
Author: Wayne Biddle
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 07/31/2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780143121275
Audience: Young Adult
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2012 pg. 12
Choice 01/01/2013
About the Author
Wayne Biddle won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the "Star Wars" antimissile project. He is the author of five previous books, including A Field Guide to Germs, winner of the American Medical Writers Association's Walter C. Alvarez Honor Award, and Dark Side of the Moon, which was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University.
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