10 Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries
Author:   M. Hanlon ,  Michael Hanlon
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9780230517585


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 January 2007
Format:   Hardback
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10 Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries


Overview

Considering questions such as 'Where did language come from?' and 'Do animals know they exist?', Michael Hanlon explores possible theories and dispatches a few of the less likely ones in his quest to fill the gaping holes that science is littered with.

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Author:   M. Hanlon ,  Michael Hanlon
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780230517585


ISBN 10:   0230517587
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 January 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Is Fido a zombie? Why is time so weird? Can I live forever please? What are we going to do with the stupid? What is the dark side? Is the universe alive? Are you the same person you were a minute ago? Why are we all so fat... and does it really matter? Can we really be sure the paranormal is bunkum? What is reality, really?

Reviews

'A lovely book...you hear some pretty class stories' - Anita Anand, BBC Radio Five Live 'I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone with an enquiring mind, or the desire to scrape the surface of popular wisdom to see what lies beneath. An entertaining and enlightening read, we can only wait for 10 More Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet).' - Alexis (Al) Lambourne, Materials Today '...for anyone interested in the greatest mysteries about our lives, universe(s) and selves, this is the most engaging, yet manageable book of the decade. A must buy.' Business and Finance Ireland


'A lovely book...you hear some pretty class stories' - Anita Anand, BBC Radio Five Live 'I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone with an enquiring mind, or the desire to scrape the surface of popular wisdom to see what lies beneath. An entertaining and enlightening read, we can only wait for 10 More Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet).' - Alexis (Al) Lambourne, Materials Today '...for anyone interested in the greatest mysteries about our lives, universe(s) and selves, this is the most engaging, yet manageable book of the decade. A must buy.' Business and Finance Ireland


Author Information

MICHAEL HANLON is one of BritainAs most successful science writers. He has been Science Editor at the Daily Mail for many years; prior to this he was at the Daily Express, the Independent and Irish News. He contributes regularly to magazines such as the Spectator and appears on TV and radio as a science pundit. He has headlined several science festivals and written three critically acclaimed popular science books before this one: The Science Of The HitchhikerAs Guide To The Galaxy (Macmillan, 2005), The Real Mars (Constable, 2004) and The Worlds of Galileo (Constable, 2001).

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