Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy

A science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be a popular textbook and yet well-written enough to appeal to general readers. “Hazen and Trefil [are] unpretentious-good, down-to-earth, we-can-explain-anything science teachers, the kind you wish you had but never did.”-The New York Times Book Review

Knowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to cultural literacy. But most books on science are often too obscure or too specialized to do the gener...