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Brian Clegg - Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window - 9781848313057 - KAC0004173
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Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window

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Description for Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window Paperback. The perfect companion to any flight - a guide to the science on view from your window seat Num Pages: 256 pages, occasional b/w photos and illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 169. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear

The perfect companion to any flight - a guide to the science on view from your window seat. There are few times when science is so immediate as when you're in a plane. Your life is in the hands of the scientists and engineers who enable tons of metal and plastic to hurtle through the sky at hundreds of miles an hour. Inflight Science shows how you stay alive up there - but that's only the beginning.

Brian Clegg explains the ever changing view, whether it's crop circles or clouds, mountains or river deltas, and describes simple experiments ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Icon Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848313057
SKU
KAC0004173
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

About Brian Clegg
Brian Clegg is a popular science writer whose Dice World and A Brief History of Infinity were both longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. He has written for publications including Nature, The Times and BBC Focus.

Reviews for Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window
What a lovely little book this is: the ultimate holiday read before the holiday's even begun.... Author Brian Clegg clearly understands that science is only as dry as the ivy-covered professors who make it so.
Word Magazine This is science simplified, surprising and entertaining.
Choice Magazine Everything you were afraid (very afraid) to ask is explained in this ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window


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