cover image Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy

Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy

Robert M. Hazen. Anchor Books, $14.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-385-26108-1

These 18 lucid essays on chemistry, physics, geology, astronomy and biology help readers comprehend today's science news. ``Hazen and Trefil . . . demystify many advanced topics with succinct, if often reductive analogies: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle becomes a car wreck in a dark tunnel, for example,'' said PW. Illustrated. (Jan.)