A Feast of Science
Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life
- Publisher
- ECW Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2018
- Category
- General, Trivia, Applied Sciences, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781770411920
- Publish Date
- May 2018
- List Price
- $22.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781773051345
- Publish Date
- May 2018
- List Price
- $16.99
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CD-Audio
- ISBN
- 9781721333721
- Publish Date
- Aug 2018
- List Price
- $21.99
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Description
An entertaining and digestible volume that demystifies science, from the author of over a dozen bestselling popular science books
Crave answers? Dr. Joe Schwarcz demystifies the chemistry of everyday life, serving up practical knowledge to both inform and entertain. Guaranteed to satiate your hunger for palatable and relevant scientific information, A Feast of Science explains that “chemical” is not synonymous with “toxic.” Are there fish genes in tomatoes? Can snail-slime cream and bone broth really make your wrinkles disappear? What’s the problem with sugar, resistant starch, hops in beer, microbeads, and “secret” cancer cures? Are “natural” products the key to good health? Dr. Joe answers these questions and more. Cutting through the fat of story, suggestion, and social-media speculation, A Feast of Science gets to the meat of the chemical reactions that make up our daily lives.
About the author
Joe Schwarcz is Director of the McGill Office for Science and Society. He is well known for his informative and entertaining public lectures on topics ranging from the chemistry of love to the science of aging. Dr. Joe has received numerous awards for teaching chemistry and for interpreting science for the public and is the only non-American ever to win the American Chemical Society’s prestigious Grady-Stack Award for demystifying chemistry. He hosts "The Dr. Joe Show" on Montreal's CJAD and has appeared hundreds of times on The Discovery Channel, CTV, CBC, TV Ontario and Global Television. He is also an amateur conjurer and often spices up his presentations with a little magic. Dr. Joe also writes a newspaper column entitled “The Right Chemistry” and has authored a number of books including best-sellers, Radar, Hula Hoops and Playful Pigs, The Genie in the Bottle, The Right Chemistry, An Apple a Day, Is That a Fact?, and Monkeys, Myths, and Molecules. Dr. Joe was awarded the 2010 Montreal Medal, the Canadian Chemical Institute’s premier prize recognizing lifetime contributions to chemistry in Canada. In 2015 he was named winner of the Balles Prize for critical thinking by the US based Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in recognition of his 2014 book, Is That A Fact?
Editorial Reviews
“Huzzah! Dr. Joe does it again! Another masterwork of demarcating non-science from science and more generally nonsense from sense. The world needs his discernment.” — Dr. Brian Alters, Professor, Chapman University
“Schwarcz’s love of learning and his enthusiasm for science are contagious. . . Author, radio personality and insuppressible science communicator ‘Dr. Joe’ offers a smorgasbord of fun facts and reflections.” — Shelf Awareness for Readers
“Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, A Feast of Science is unreservedly recommended for personal, community, and academic library General Science collections and supplemental studies lists.” — Midwest Book Review
“Enticingly absorbing book . . . This author has the canny knack to explain the language of science to a public resistant to technical jargon, and he makes the magic of chemistry accessible to the lay reader.” — Seattle Book Review
“His writing style is easy and enjoyable . . . reading Dr. Joe is both pertinent to a chemistry teacher and yet accessible to the general public.” — Chem 13 News
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