Daily Planet: The Ultimate Book of Everyday Science

by Jay Ingram

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143177869
• ISBN13: 9780143177869
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Penguin Books Canada
• Length: 304 Pages

Customer Reviews

Great Book

This really is a terrific book. The information was even better than what the description had said. Each topic is covered with useful information, ideas,pictures and written in a way that any age can understand. A nice mix of humour and science delivers idea's from others who want to do something about Global Warming. Just an all around good book and well worth the money.

cool book of cool ideas

Ingram has access to a huge array of media resources that help make this book a visually interesting and informative presentation. It is magazine-style in layout and level of writing. Methods or devices are collected that could stem the impact of the human contribution to the world's climate. In my opinion, the items reviewed span a large range of feasibility from very worthwhile to a little kooky, yet the words are scientifically neutral when describing the projects. The start of the book is a concise and visual review of the global warming issue. This complex subject is well organized and clearly presented with a cool, scientific tone without scaring away the science-phobe. This book is candy to an engineering or scientific mind. Credibility in the author's viewpoint and a comfortable presentation comes from the low-stress verbiage used in most of the book. The technologies and concepts such as those collected here need to be portrayed without the heated emotions the subject usually brings out. Otherwise, the science value of the ideas stream slower to the brain because of political or social obstacles often married with the subject of global warming. Cool thinking is just what this book provides.