Summary
The Water Book: A Journey Through Time and Space
Water is the most commonplace of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn’t live without it. Yet, on closer examination it is also a very strange substance (it is one of only a very small number of molecules which expand when cooled). Look closer again and water reveals itself as a key to a scientific story on the biggest of canvases.
Water is crucial to our survival - li…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472209535 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472209532 |
| Author: | Alok Jha |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Book Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 25 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 261g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
It delights again and again because, as in all the best science writing, the tale is stranger and more curious than one could ever imagine - Guardian
One of the brightest young science writers around … He belongs to a select band of science communicators, and knows his science at a deep level and can put it across. - The IndependentAbout The Author
Alok Jha
Alok Jha is a journalist and broadcaster based in London. He is science correspondent for ITN and, before that, was science correspondent at the Guardian. He has presented science programmes for BBC2 and BBC Radio 4. Alok received a science-writing award from the American Institute of Physics in 2014, was named European Science Writer of the year in 2008, and has been shortlisted for feature writer of the year at the annual Association of British Science Writers awards.
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