Talking Science
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Talking Science
TV personality Adam Hart-Davis meets 14 of the world’s leading scientists to discuss their work, their passions, and those elusive ground-breaking moments in their lives.
This is a book that shows how science can explain the world that we inherited and shape the world that we would like to leave for future generations.
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Bath, UK) tells her personal story of the discovery of the first pulsar.
- Sir Michael Berry (Bristol, UK) ties knots in nothing.
- Richard Dawkins (Oxford, UK) explains what Darwinism means today.
- Loren Graham (MIT, US) explains why Stalin’s top-down policy meant that no Russian engineering project would ever work properly.
- Richard Gregory (Bristol, UK) explores some of the visual illusions that so easily fool us.
- Eric Lander (MIT, US) discusses the excitement of the human genome project.
- Lord May of Oxford (UK) President of the Royal Society talks about chaos, ecology and HIV.
- John Maynard Smith (Sussex, UK) discusses why we bother with sex.
- Rosalind Picard (MIT, US) believes in wearable computers that understand our emotions.
- Sir Martin Rees (Cambridge, UK), Astronomer Royal, discusses the big bang, black holes and the end of the universe.
- Eugenie Scott (Oakland, US) is a leading campaigner for the teaching in schools of evolution rather than creationism.
- Lewis Wolpert (UCL, UK) speaks on the ethics and practicality of cloning and on his own depression.
- Colleen Cavanaugh (Harvard, US) describes the excitement and discomfort of exploring the deep ocean.
- Peter Raven (St Louis, US) is a leading advocate of biodiversity – described by Time magazine as a hero for the planet.
The book, Talking Science [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780470093023 in Paperback by may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Format
- Paperback
- Published
- Oct 15, 2004
- ISBN-13
- 9780470093023
- Pages
- 296
- Carton quantity
- 12 copies
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