On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence

by Peter Atkins

Book Overview

Peter Atkins is the shining exception to the rule that scientists make poor writers. A Fellow at Oxford and a leading chemist, he has won admiration for his precise, lucid, and yet rigorous explanations of science. Now he turns his forensic mind to the greatest--and most controversial--questions of human existence: birth, death, the origin of reality, and its end.

In On Being, Atkins makes a provocative contribution to the great debate between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199603367
• ISBN13: 9780199603367
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.8"