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Petit Point: A Candid Portrait On The Aberrations Of Science
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25,20 € |
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| Verlag: | Dl Publishing / World Scientific |
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| Veröffentl.: | 22.10.2004 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9789814482028 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 80 |
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Beschreibungen
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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