Secrets #1

The Secret House: 24 Hours in the Strange and Unexpected World in Which We Spend Our Nights and Days

david bodanis

Vividly describes the invisible physical and biological events in a house that are a part of everyday life, such as the eggs quietly breathing in the refrigerator and the electrical force fields curling out of the wall sockets

Genres sciencenonfictionreferencenaturechildrens

223 pages, Paperback

First published June 26,1986

Series

Secrets

This edition

Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1986 by Simon \u0026 Schuster
ISBN: 9780671600327
ASIN: 067160032X
Language: English

About the author

david bodanis

David Bodanis' latest book THE ART OF FAIRNESS: THE POWER OF DECENCY IN A WORLD TURNED MEAN was published November 2020 and asks the question that has long fascinated David: Can you succeed without being a terrible person? The answer is 'Yes, but you need skill', and the book shows how. I demonstrate those insights through a series of biographies…

David Bodanis is the bestselling author of THE SECRET HOUSE and E=MC2, which was turned into a PBS documentary and a Southbank Award-winning ballet at Sadler's Wells. David also wrote ELECTRIC UNIVERSE, which won the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize, and PASSIONATE MINDS, a BBC Book of the Week. Then a return to Einstein and the struggles he went through with EINSTEIN'S GREATEST MISTAKE which was named ‘Science Book of the Year' by the Sunday Times, and also widely translated.

David has worked for the Royal Dutch Shell Scenario Prediction unit and the World Economic Forum. He has been a popular speaker at TED conferences and at Davos. His work has been published in the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the New York Times, and has appeared on Newsnight, Start the Week, and other programs. When not slumped in front of a laptop, he has been known to attempt kickboxing, with highly variable results.