Why Icebergs Float : Exploring Science in Everyday Life /

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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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Main Author: Morris, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Lieu de publication non identifie] : UCL Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Science.
Science > Popular works.
Livres numeriques.
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