Prepared in collaboration with Popular Science, the nation¹s leading science magazine, POPULAR SCIENCE: SCIENCE YEAR BY YEAR is a complete overview of the century¹s scientific and technological developments. More than 25 branches of science, from archaeology to oceanography to zoology, are represented. The text includes biographies, yearly highlights, and ³Science News² features, plus 20 special spreads that take a closer look at landmark developments like the introduction of the radio and the growth of the environmental movement. Unique and fun to read, this fact-filled volume is guaranteed to spark the whole family¹s interest in science.
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The 20th century yielded dramatic and profound advances in science and technology. Packed with photos, illustrations, and intriguing narrative, Science Year by Year--a handsome, informative resource from Popular Science magazine--documents 100 years in science. Readers can track invention from the early 1900s, when the first diesel engine was developed, a new pain-relief drug called Aspirin was marketed, and Pavlov was developing his conditioned reflex theory, to the end of the century, when the prefix www had become a household term, human genetic material was almost completely decoded, and a space probe had landed on Mars and released a vehicle to explore its surface. More than 25 branches of science (paleontology, chemistry, archaeology, biology, oceanography, astronomy, etc.) are represented in a logical year-by-year format, along with capsule biographies and features. In addition, 20 "Special Focus Topics" take a more in-depth look at essential, sometimes controversial, concepts such as sound and music, nuclear energy, recycling, and genetics. Curious readers of all ages will be spellbound by the wealth of information revealed in this fine guide to a remarkable era. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter
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A beautiful, well-produced book -discuss it with your kids.,
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Most people don't realize it, but the dramatic inventions of the 20th Century are matched by the perhaps even more remarkable discoveries of the 18th and 19th Centuries, remarkable in the sense that they unexpectedly uncovered whole new scientific principles and capabilities. The spectacular discoveries we now see all around us - space travel, electronics, electronic communication, music recording, are often applications of basic principles developed in earlier times. Developments of the 20th Century that are truly unique include radioactivity and nuclear physics, harnessing the molecular properties of semiconductors to explode the development of computers and "smart" devices, and spectacular investigations deep into the ocean and earth crust. In 1900 the earth was regarded by Lord Kelvin, a science superstar, to be around 500,000 years old. After World War II an age of 4.5 billion years became well established. Popular Science has dug deep into the 20th Centuries discoveries, giving nearly year-by-year accounts (some well known, others not), jammed with well-done illustrations. It's a thoughtful job, so detailed that I am including aspects of it in some serious science policy research - yet so colorfully illustrated that it may be hard for adults in professional scientific or engineerinig fields to take it seriously. The best way to exploit such a fine volume, therefore, is to not just give it as a present to kids in high school, but to sit down with them and look and talk about some of the work and its implications. Older buyers can identify with the earlier - mid 20th Century developments and discuss with young people the lifestyle changes that have come about partly because of them. I argue that computer communications, by speeding up and crowding human life, may have introduced severe negative effects offesetting the obvious advantages.
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This review is from: Science Year By Year (Popular Science) (Hardcover)
My 8-year old third-grader brought this book home from the library at school and now the whole family is now fighting over who gets to read it first. My husband and son are both math and science guys...they eat this stuff up. Science doesn't overly interest me, but I was SO IMPRESSED with this book. It's really a history lesson on the science & product developments of the 20th century and how they affected society. Plenty of picture illustrations + about a paragraph of text on each entry. Would make a GREAT gift.
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