Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe

This entertaining, eye-opening account of how the laws of thermodynamics are essential to understanding the world today-from refrigeration and jet engines to calorie counting and global warming-is "a lesson in how to do popular science right" (Kirkus Reviews).

Einstein's Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. "Although thermodynamics has been studied...