Talking Science - 9780470093023
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Product Details
Author:
Adam Hart-Davis
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
296
Publisher:
Wiley (October 15, 2004)
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9780470093023
Weight:
13.6oz
Dimensions:
6.1" x 7.5" x 0.7"
File:
Wiley-wileyUS_2_1_20260815-20260815.xml
Folder:
Wiley
List Price:
$40.00
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Case Pack:
12
As low as:
$38.00
Publisher Identifier:
P-WIL
Discount Code:
D
Pub Discount:
50
Imprint:
Wiley
Overview
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.
