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Title: slapdash
Review: I checked this book out of the library, and soon gave up on it. Gibbin has exibited a good, easy to read writing style in putting out a slew of science books. He should maybe slow down a bit. A book of this sort cries out for supporting illustrations, but has none. What it does have is a number of careless errors in the few early pages I read: He erronously refers to atomic weight, in a context where atomic number would be correct. He says e/m for electrons was found to be about one thousandth as big as that for protons, when he should have said about one thousand times as big. And so on.
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