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Clear and coherent...refreshingly clear-eyed and unsentimental. -- Washington Post. A highly readable look at cities that casually ranges from mudhuts to glass-and-steel skyscrapers, from the atomic structure of iron to the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago. -- San Francisco Chronicle. Clear andcoherent...refreshingly clear-eyed andunsentimental. -- Washington Post. A highly readable look at cities that casuallyranges from mudhuts to glass-and-steel skyscrapers, from the atomic structure of iron to the top of theSears Tower in Chicago. -- SanFrancisco Chronicle.

Clear and coherent...refreshingly clear-eyed and unsentimental. -- Washington Post, <br> A highly readable look at cities that casually ranges from mudhuts to glass-and-steel skyscrapers, from the atomic structure of iron to the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago. -- San Francisco Chronicle,

"""Clear and  coherent...refreshingly clear-eyed and  unsentimental.""-- Washington Post. ""A highly readable look at cities that casually  ranges from mudhuts to glass-and-steel skyscrapers,  from the atomic structure of iron to the top of the  Sears Tower in Chicago."" -- San  Francisco Chronicle."

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James Trefil, the Robinson Professor of Physics at George Mason University, is the author of more than 40 books and 100 articles in professional journals. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the World Economic Forum. He is the recipient of the Andrew Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics, the Westinghouse and Subaru Awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the 2008 Science Writing Award from the American Physical Society.

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