James S. Trefil, Author . Holt $26 (249p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7248-8
With several lively and informal works of popular science to his credit (Sharks Have No Bones
; Are We Unique?
), Trefil is certainly qualified to tackle the controversial, timely topic of how humans ought to affect the planet they live on. He...
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James S. Trefil, Author Anchor Books $9.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-385-41566-8
Trefil studies universality as he hops from Newton's observation of a falling apple and Charles Lyell's estimate of the age of the earth to MIT physicist Alan Guth's bizarre speculations about constructing a universe in the lab out of a ``false...
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James S. Trefil, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (266p) ISBN 978-0-385-24797-9
After last year's brave foray into the biology of the abortion controversy in The Facts of Life (written with Harold Morowitz), Trefil returns to the general science territory he staked out in A Scientist at the Seashore. This city-mouse version of...
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James S. Trefil, Author Gale Cengage $16.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-684-18627-6
Argues Trefil, if we want to understand the universe, a hike through the mountains is just as good a place to start as the laboratory. As in his A Scientist at the Seashore, he begins here with something encountered on a walk and lets that...
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James S. Trefil, Author Scribner Book Company $18.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-684-18796-9
By analyzing the light emanating from distant stars, scientists can tell what elements burn in their fiery cores. This method is possible, notes Trefil, because the laws of nature seem to be true everywhere in the universe at all times. Yet, the ``pr
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James S. Trefil, Author Scribner Book Company $0 (197p) ISBN 978-0-684-18795-2
Astrophysicists now believe that at least 90 percent of the universe is composed of material we cannot see``dark matter.'' Giving off neither light nor radio waves, dark matter remains a mystery: Is it made of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive...
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James S. Trefil, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (355p) ISBN 978-0-395-72862-8
Overlook the fatuous subtitle; here is a competent and sometimes fascinating tour of the frontiers of scientific inquiry. Trefil, a physicist with 20 previous popular science titles to his credit, has chosen an interesting premise: drawing from all...
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James S. Trefil, Author, Trefil, Author John Wiley & Sons $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-471-15536-2
The books of physicist Trefil (A Scientist in the City, etc.) can inspire praise for insight and clarity or criticism for self-importance-or both, as his latest does. Trefil's exploration of what sets humans apart from other living beings on the one
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James S. Trefil, Author, Judith Peatross, Illustrator Anchor Books $15 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-26212-5
Astrophysicists now believe that at least 90% of the universe is composed of material we cannot see--``dark matter.'' Trefil ``takes readers to the outermost frontiers of the new cosmology in this wonderfully readable tour of an Alice-in-Wonderland...
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James S. Trefil, Author, David Levy, Foreword by National Geographic Society $35 (255p) ISBN 978-0-7922-7491-9
Recently there's been a run of coffee-table books combining elegant astronomical photographs with brief, friendly exegeses of the science behind them (e.g., Ken Croswell's Magnificent Universe, Forecasts, Sept. 6). But for adults and young people...
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