At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life [Paperback]

Guy P. Harrison has done it again. With his usual breezy, accessible, and always-readable style, he has crafted a love letter to the human species. In?At Least Know This, Harrison applies a journalistic approach to the investigation of who we are and what we know about the universe, the Earth, life, and ourselves, cleverly crafting a multidisciplinary and panoramic scientific discussion in the form of answers to the reporters fundamental questions: who, what, when, where, how, and why? As Harrison points out,?Homo sapiens?is the only species on Earth with the capacityand even the needto ask the broad question Who are we??At Least Know This?engagingly provides the answers to that question as we currently know them.?Kenneth L. Feder, PhD, archaeologist, Central Connecticut State University, and author,?Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology?At Least Know This is a monumental, wonderfully wide-ranging, scientifically accurate account of, well, what you should at least know. Its not only accessible but downright fun and exhilarating to read!David P. Barash, Professor of Psychology Emeritus, University of Washington, and author of Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really AreIn the spirit of other scientists/humanists, such as Jacob Bronowski or Carl Sagan, Harrison thoughtfully delves into lifes greatest questionswho we are, where we come from, why we behave the way we doand what these imply for our future. These are the questions that continue to inspire wonder in us all.?Nancy Forbes, coauthor, Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics?For those who hunger for knowledge about the natural world and universe,?this book?asks and answers all the right questions. We live in an age of reason but, according to Guy P. Harrison, a surprisingly large number of us wander through life in a deep fog of willful ignorance. It takes curiosity and critical thinkinglãe