The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science by Rutherford, Adam

The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science

Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what's happening in the universe. Our...
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The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science by Rutherford, Adam

The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science

$54.35

The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science

$54.35
Author: Adam Rutherford
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what's happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely mislead us. The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) tells the story of how we came to suppress our monkey minds and perceive the true nature of reality. Written with wit and humor, this brief book tells the story of science--tales of fumbles and missteps, errors and egos, hard work, accidents, and some really bad decisions--all of which have created the sum total of human knowledge.

Geneticist Adam Rutherford and mathematician Hannah Fry guide readers through time and space, through our bodies and brains, showing how emotions shape our view of reality, how our minds tell us lies, and why a mostly bald and curious ape decided to begin poking at the fabric of the universe.

Rutherford and Fry shine as science sleuths, wrestling with some truly head-scratching questions: Where did time come from? Do we have free will? Does my dog love me? Hilarious sidebars present memorable scientific oddities: for example, hypnotized snails, human-sized ants, and the average time it takes most animals to evacuate their bladders. (A surprisingly consistent twenty-one seconds, if you must know.)

Both rigorous and playful, The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) is a celebration of the weirdness of the cosmos, the strangeness of humans, and the joys and follies of scientific discovery.



Author: Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/25/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780393881578


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2021 pg. 18
Library Journal 11/01/2021 pg. 104
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2021
Booklist 12/01/2021 pg. 14

About the Author
Rutherford, Adam: - Adam Rutherford is the author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived. With Hannah Fry, he co-hosts the BBC Radio 4 show The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry. He lives in London.Fry, Hannah: - Hannah Fry is the author of Hello World. With Adam Rutherford, she co-hosts the BBC Radio 4 show The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry. She lives in London.

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