Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy

Robert M. Hazen and James Trefil have a book called Science Matters. From what I have read it's a really well put together book on explaining the Layman's side of scientific aspects of the abstract nature of science

There are a lot of confusing aspects of science that we have to address during the course of a year so this book seems to cover a lot of different subjects in a language that is not overwhelming, even to lower reading levels. I'm thinking about using the explanation of Newton's Laws in class. :)

Below is a sample through Google books: