Book Review—Science: For Those Who Escape from Science
I’ll be honest here: I spent a lot of my early life trying to “escape from science,” exactly as the title of this book suggests.
Despite having excellent science educators, the subject did not grasp my attention the way history and language did. It simply did not seem all that relevant to me for the most part.
Life, however, is an ironic thing. I grew up to become a writer, specifically one who writes about detective work and, sometimes, historical forensics. I began to find scientific research necessary, first through a historical lens. Then, amazingly, as an adult, I started to discover a newfound interest in science in general.
What does one do then? Most of us are not perpetually taking organized science classes. I wasn’t sure where to begin.
That’s where Science: For Those Who Escape from Science by Navid Farrokhi becomes both a resource and a pleasure, at the point where an interested adult wants an entry point into science that is relevant to our lives and the modern world.
Farrokhi’s book is carefully researched by an author who is an expert in translating scientific concepts into something understandable for a general audience, something he frequently does for television viewers as a science pundit and commentator in Iran. The fascinating, quick-fire facts he brings out cover everything from space to humanity. This is not a book for the professional scientists or science professors among us who will want more in-depth research, but many of us don’t fall into those categories. This is a book that does what it claims, presenting relevant science in digestible servings.
Books of facts like this one serve as a great jumping-off point, a way to discover interesting topics the reader might want to research further, or just to provide an easy, educational read that does not require years of prior scientific knowledge to understand.
As an adult with a growing interest in science, I’m glad books like this one exist, to help start me on a journey I missed out on before. For Holmesian writers and history lovers like me, Farrokhi even includes information about inventions that have changed the world.
You can purchase the book here, and the author has generously chosen to donate his royalties to charitable causes.
A copy of this book was provided by the author. All opinions expressed are the reviewer’s own.
