A Field Guide to Radiation Paperback - 2012 - 1st Edition
by Wayne Biddle
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Biddle offers a first-of-its-kind guide to understanding radiation and nuclear energy. From fallout to radiation poisoning, alpha particles to cosmic rays, Biddle illuminates the history, meaning, and health implications in an essential handbook.
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A comprehensive and accessible guide to understanding how radiation affects our everyday lives
Nuclear energy, X-rays, radon, cell phones . . . radiation is part of the way we live on a daily basis, and yet the sources and repercussions of our exposure to it remain mysterious. Now Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wayne Biddle offers a first-of-its-kind guide to understanding this fundamental aspect of the universe. From fallout to radiation poisoning, alpha particles to cosmic rays, Biddle illuminates the history, meaning, and health implications of one hundred scientific terms in succinct, witty essays. A Field Guide to Radiation is an essential, engaging handbook that offers wisdom and common sense for today's increasingly nuclear world.
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- Title A Field Guide to Radiation
- Author Wayne Biddle
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Date 2012-07-31
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143121275 / 0143121278
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.8 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Radioactive substances, Radiation
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012009025
- Dewey Decimal Code 539.2
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- Booklist, 08/01/2012, Page 12
- Choice, 01/01/2013, Page 0
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