This entertaining look at how electricity works and affects our daily lives is highlighted by Bodanis's charming narrative voice and by clever, fresh analogies that make difficult science accessible.

This image represents the evolution of the Universe, starting with the Big Bang. Despite how counterintuitive the Big Bang picture is, and the number of scientific attempts to come up with viable, ...

Have you ever tried to catch a frog? Frogs are impossibly quick. They jump around unpredictably in starts and stops and in every possible direction. By the time you catch up to a frog, that frog is ...