We are all stardust : scientists who shaped our world talk about their work, their lives, and what t...
We are all stardust : scientists who shaped our world talk about their work, their lives, and what t...
We are all stardust : scientists who shaped our world talk about their work, their lives, and what they still want to know / Stefan Klein ; translated by Ross Benjamin.
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New York : The Experiment, [2015]
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G 2015/4612
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English
German
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Physical content
xv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
On the courage to spend a lifetime searching -- We are all stardust : on the beginning and end of the world / cosmologist Martin Rees -- The genes of the good : on egoism and selflessness / evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins -- In the hall of illusions : on consciousness / neuroscientist V.S. Ra...
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Publisher
New York : The Experiment, [2015]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
Nineteen brilliantly led conversations with a sterling roster of natural and social scientists, shedding new light on their ideas, discoveries and lives. How does Jane Goodall's relationship with her dog Rusty inform her thinking about our relationship to other species? Which time and place would Jared Diamond most prefer to live in, in light of hi...
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We are all stardust : scientists who shaped our world talk about their work, their lives, and what they still want to know / Stefan Klein ; translated by Ross Benjamin.
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"An earlier version of this book was originally published in German by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 2010" -- Title page verso.
Translated from the German.
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Translated from the German.
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G 2015/4612
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74VKzdkr0oJX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzdkr0oJX
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ISBN
9781615190591 paperback
1615190597 paperback
DDC
500
MMS ID
991023363879702626
