101 Things You Don't Know about Science and No One Else Does Either
- ISBN-10
- 0395877407
- ISBN-13
- 9780395877401
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 355
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- James Trefil
Description
Offers a look at the most pressing questions in science today, including the likelihood of extraterrestrial intelligence and of a medicinal cure for tumors
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