Science's Most Wanted: Outrageous Innovators, Deadly Disasters, and Shocking Discoveries

by Susan Conner and Dashka Slater

Book Overview

Science and technology have had more than their share of the good, the bad, and the bogus. Alfred William Lawson, the designer of the first airliner, believed that two types of creatures lived within... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574884816
• ISBN13: 9781574884814
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Fun, authoritative and interesting

For anyone who has Reader's Digest, The Big Bathroom Reader, the Guinness Book of World Records AND a dictionary on the bathroom-reading shelf, this book will be a marvelous new addition to your stack. Full of information that will dazzle (or completely bore) your friend and family, Science's Most Wanted comprises some of the most interesting details of our human civilization you can find in a single volume. Easy to read and fascinating.