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An original, brilliant, and important book. The authors clarify the impact, mostly malign, of postmodernism--at least postmodernism in the hands of the second-rate--on the evolving curriculum in higher education. --Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University 'Praise for the first edition: ' Answers nearly all the questions that parents or clinicians might raise about fragile X syndrome....Can be recommended confidently as a thoroughly up-to-date, reliable, and informative account of the condition. --'Lancet' The clinical and cytogenetic material in this book is excellent and provides a strong background for physicians and students...'Fragile X Syndrome' still presents the best comprehensive treatment of this complex disorder. Physicians, students, and other interested professionals can either read this book from cover to cover or select the chapters that interest or apply to them. --'New England Journal of Medicine' Purchasers of this book will think twice about providing it on loan to trusted friends. It will not reappear until the second edition comes out. --'British Medical Journal' Anyone desiring to learn more about the fragile X syndrome should read this book. --'Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography' Since Fragile X syndrome is a common genetic disorder, genetic counselors, regardless of their focus, will have patients for whom fragile X syndrome is a concern. This book offers a comprehensive source of information and I would highly recommend it. --'Perspectives in Genetic Counseling'

We should be thankful that Gross and Levitt have provided a wake-up call. Their significant overview of the thinking of those who teach our lawyers, journalists and teachers should be read by all who are concerned by the decline of the status of science in our times. * Physics Today * At last, somebody has performed the invaluable service of exploding the pretentions of those who think every equation derived this century undermines the fabric of western thought. * New Statesman * The authors' shredding of such luminaries of postmodernism and feminism as Stanley Aronowitz, Sandra Harding, and Evelyn fox Keller, among others, is not always charitable, [but] it is invariably compelling and frequently devastating. -- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese * Washington Times *

We should be thankful that Gross and Levitt have provided a wake-up call. Their significant overview of the thinking of those who teach our lawyers, journalists and teachers should be read by all who are concerned by the decline of the status of science in our times. Physics Today At last, somebody has performed the invaluable service of exploding the pretentions of those who think every equation derived this century undermines the fabric of western thought. New Statesman The authors' shredding of such luminaries of postmodernism and feminism as Stanley Aronowitz, Sandra Harding, and Evelyn fox Keller, among others, is not always charitable, [but] it is invariably compelling and frequently devastating. -- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Washington Times

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Paul R. Gross, former director and president of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, is University Professor of Life Sciences, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Norman Levitt is professor of mathematics at Rutgers University and the author of Grassmannians and Gauss Maps in Piecewise-Linear Topology.

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