SPRING SALE đź“š Buy 3+ Books | Get 25% Off

The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: A Feast of Science: Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life, Joe Schwarcz

A Feast of Science: Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life

Joe Schwarcz

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: ECW Press
  • Publish Date: May 22nd, 2018
  • Pages: 336
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 1.00in - 0.85lb
  • EAN: 9781770411920
  • Categories: • Chemistry - General• Applied Sciences• Life Sciences - Biology

About the Author

Schwarcz, Joe: - Dr. Joe Schwarcz is the author of That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles, The Genie in the Bottle, Radar, Hula Hoops and Playful Pigs, Dr. Joe and What You Didn't Know, The Fly in the Ointment, and Let Them Eat Flax!. He is a regular on the Discovery Channel, the recipient of the 2003 Independent Publishers Book Award, and the winner of the American Chemical Society's Stack-Grady Award for interpreting science to the public.

Praise for this book

"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