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Title: Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes by W. B. Gratzer, Walter Gratzer ISBN: 0-19-280403-0 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: [] Tales for Scientists
Comment: If you love science, you love humor, and you are a student of human behavior, this is a book for you. I enjoyed virtually every one of these nine score vignettes.
But these are not just stories. Most are [] tales, in which good tends to triumph over [bad]. Some are about brilliant female scientists who overcome male chauvinism, and other about the numerous afflictions beset upon Jewish scientists in the Nazi era. Several illustrate the intrinsic carnality of science--scientists who experiment on themselves and who revel in human bodily fluids.
The stories are also often quite instructive, in case you are not totally up to snuff in chemistry or physics, and could use a non-technical refresher.
Rating: 4
Summary: 181 interesting scientific anecdotes
Comment: Each of the 181 anecdotes here relates the tale(s) of a scientist or a discovery, many affectionately humorous, in short passages varying from one paragraph to several pages. There is no apparent order to the anecdotes, nor is there any editorial narrative to bind them together, so this becomes a book for serendipitous browsing. Each passage is attributed, and the book is supplemented by a name and subject index, though these are not exhaustive.
This is an interesting and fun set of disjointed stories, with editorial energies devoted to their selection rather than cognitive cohesion.
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Title: Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson ISBN: 0805063323 Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Best American Science Writing 2003 (BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE WRITING) by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0060936517 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Eureka! Moment: 100 Key Scientific Discoveries of the 20th Century by Rupert Lee ISBN: 0415939410 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
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Title: On the Shoulders of Giants by Stephen Hawking ISBN: 0762413484 Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception, and Human Frailty by W. B. Gratzer ISBN: 0198507070 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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