{"product_id":"lost-in-wonder-isbn-9781582435725","title":"Lost in Wonder","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe splendors of science, delightfully demystified.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do we make sense of the modern world? Science is a profoundly affecting aspect of contemporary life, and yet the gulf between experts and everyone else is widening. Colette Brooks bridges the gap by playing the role of curious layperson, serving as a tour guide to some of the most important discoveries and innovations of the last five centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through serious and absurd stories alike, Brooks takes readers back and forth in time, from dark, cavernous laboratories to the pristine facilities of the twenty–first century. Laugh along with Newton, peer at the moon with Galileo, work beside the Wright Brothers, ride with the astronauts of Apollo 11, watch for UFOs in the 1950s, probe the secrets of the fruit fly, visit Chernobyl, or examine suspicious packages in a Hazmat suit. With Brooks as the guide, it’s easy to become immersed in the twists, turns, and surprises of each imaginative leap forward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a series of “thought experiments,\" Brooks also poses questions and offers helpful tips that ease the readers way into this strange but provocative territory. Bringing her unique perspective to the larger cultural conversation about science, Brooks ultimately unleashes the most powerful force of all: our own wonder.Praise for \u003ci\u003eIn the City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is one of a kind: a view straight through the stone and steel, an X–ray of the city's consciousness. Colette Brooks writes like someone telling a secret.\" —Luc Sante\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lively mix of narrative, catechism, reportage, memoir, and meditative essay. This is an engaging book, so fraught with self–consciousness as to bring into question our notions of writing and literary structure.\" —Billy Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I've read \u003ci\u003eIn the City\u003c\/i\u003e three times and expect to read it again. In lovely, exact prose Colette Brooks has fixed her experience of urban life with insight and compassion and humor and a sense of the encompassing mystery.\" —Stanley Kauffmann\u003cb\u003eColette Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn the City: Random Acts of Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN\/Jerard Fund Award. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302460772581,"sku":"NP9781582435725","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781582435725.jpg?v=1767731831","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/lost-in-wonder-isbn-9781582435725","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}