The modern fast-moving world of science will have far-reaching impacts on all our lives. This title should be useful for anyone who wants to know more about how their future will be affected, as well as providing accessible and stimulating material for secondary school and college students. Reviewing developments in physics in the last 100 years, this book provides an easy reference guide to the major discoveries, an index to key terms and concepts, biographies of important physicists and the new and exciting developments we can expect.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Hutchinson Trends in Science .

There are 288 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2001 by John Murray Press .

The Unknown Adventurer is still believed to be at large in the wild.