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Today, only a few people outside of the scientific community are conversant with the tradition of science and its many breakthroughs. The rest are scientifically illiterate. So say Frank R. Spellman and Joni Price-Bayer, authors of In Defense of Science: Why Scientific Literacy Matters. This book explains why ordinary citizens need to have an understanding of science, its methods, and its groundbreaking discoveries. The authors introduce the most basic scientific concepts in accessible and straightforward language. Along the way they debunk several misconceptions of science and scientists, and arrive at a view of science as an integral part of society, policy, and everyday life… - from Amazon.com. See all our new books this month .

COM Library is now the #1 most active LibAnswers institution in the world out of 443!!!! That is a lot of help for our students. What is LibAnswers? LibAnswers is a knowledge base of all the questions and answers that we help our students with. Last year we helped students 3,912 times directly. Even better, by posting all our Q&A online, other students can get help just by reading the previously answered question—and they do—over 38,000 times last year! View our most popular Q&A . How did we do it? We are a small community college, how did we become the most active system? We did not just build a knowledge database, we made it accessible. Every page on every COM Library LibGuide gives students access to library help via live chat, text, twitter, email, phone and the LibAnswers Ask Us button. We make sure each LibAnswer is answered quickly. We associate each answer with all relevant topics and we embed them in the appropriate LibGuides. We also make sure that we provide