
by Natalie Angier · tapa dura · ISBN 9788449320965

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«El canon» is Natalie Angier's popular science essay, published by Ediciones Paidós in hardcover (400 pages, in Spanish).
Natalie Angier explores the great branches of science starting from everyday life: what happens when ice cream melts or coffee cools, how liver cells react to candy, and why the horse is a case of evolution. With accessible metaphors, the author explains biology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy.
Subtitle: «Un viaje alucinante por el maravilloso mundo de la ciencia». Originally published in 2007 as «The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science».
Recommended for curious readers who want to get closer to science and for parents who need to answer scientific questions clearly.

Natalie Angier is an American nonfiction writer and a former science journalist for The New York Times. Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1991 and the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award in 1992. She is also noted for her public identification as an atheist and received the Freedom from Religion Foundation's Emperor Has No Clothes Award in 2003.
