Authored by a highly regarded chemist and science communicator, this textbook pulls together all aspects of science communication.

By the simple expedient of asking questions and conducting experiments to answer them, science has transformed our understanding of the world. It has made us wh

Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause a

Ever wonder why the sky is blue or why most plants happen to be green? Or why stomach acid doesn't dissolve your stomach, or why there are more tornados in the

The problem of the limits of science is twofold. First, there is the problem of demarcation, i.e., the boundaries or “barriers” between what is science and