Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:32:53 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: not what you'd expect from a  university press ...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> Madeleine Yeh <myeh at wap.org> 10/13/2009 12:32 PM >>>
>On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:27:04 -0400
>  "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>> http://gazette.jhu.edu/2009/10/05/now-on-tap-the-%E2%80%98fizzics%E2%80%=
99-of-beer/
>>
>> mjw
>>
>
>Do you recommend this book as an entertaining read?  As an
>informative book?

For this group: Yes.

It's part of a broad general interest series we do on teaching science =
through popular culture as it were.  Some of the titles:

The Isaac Newton School of Driving: Physics and Your Car
The Physics of Hockey
The Physics of Basketball
Death Rays, Jet Packs, Stunts, and Supercars: The Fantastic Physics of =
Film's Most Celebrated Secret Agent

Also, Amazon has the book with the Search Inside The Book Feature.

mjw