PETIT POINT: A CANDID PORTRAIT ON THE ABERRATIONS OF SCIENCE - Softcover

Fiell, Charlotte & Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9812560114 ISBN 13: 9789812560117

Verlag: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO PTE LTD, 2004

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Petit Point: A Candid Portrait On The Aberrations Of Science BY Pierre-Gilles De Gennes, World Scientific Publishing Company, Paperback, 2004

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.,." It is an interesting and valuable addition to any science literature collection."

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In this fascinating book, Nobel Prize winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes wittily captures the lives of personalities from both the academic and the industrial world in delightful bite-size stories. Most of the characters in this collection are like those in Aesop's fables, but in modern-day research settings. The book provides a critical account of aberrations (fortunately rare) of the scientific community. Many lessons can be drawn from the stories. For the young researcher, this book is like a telescope: for seeing other human beings beyond his or her laboratory. For the administrator, this book is like a microscope: for seeing inside the human beings huge and complex structures. However, like Aesop's fables, you would not offer the book as a gift to anyone other than a close and wise friend.Petit Point is not a book to be devoured in a single sitting. It is one to be savored and reflected upon - it shows what the world may be like and what we ourselves may become. It is like a mirror - to be visited from time to time.

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• Verlag: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO PTE LTD
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 9812560114
• ISBN 13: 9789812560117
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80