Talking Science

Author:   Adam Hart-Davis
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
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9780470093023


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   10 September 2004
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Adam Hart-Davis
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.10cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780470093023


ISBN 10:   0470093021
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   10 September 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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...a good book for anyone who wants to see how real science is done... (Focus magazine, No.148, March 2005) ...As well as being stimulating and awe-inspiring, the transcripts are packed with humour and insight... (South Coast Magazine, February 2005) ...this wonderfully accessible book brings to life today's most intriguing scientific discoveries, debates and personalities. (Focus, Number 154, 2005) ...wonderful resource...in a library with a shelf for scientists as personalities, this volume merits a place. (Journal Of College Science Teaching, June 2006)


...a good book for anyone who wants to see how real science is done... (Focus magazine, No.148, March 2005) ...As well as being stimulating and awe--inspiring, the transcripts are packed with humour and insight... (South Coast Magazine, February 2005) ...this wonderfully accessible book brings to life todaya s most intriguing scientific discoveries, debates and personalities. (Focus, Number 154, 2005) ...wonderful resource...in a library with a shelf for scientists as personalities, this volume merits a place. (Journal Of College Science Teaching, June 2006)


...a good book for anyone who wants to see how real science is done... (Focus magazine, No.148, March 2005) ...As well as being stimulating and awe-inspiring, the transcripts are packed with humour and insight... (South Coast Magazine, February 2005) ...this wonderfully accessible book brings to life today's most intriguing scientific discoveries, debates and personalities. (Focus, Number 154, 2005) ...wonderful resource...in a library with a shelf for scientists as personalities, this volume merits a place. (Journal Of College Science Teaching, June 2006)


This book has surfaced through and is based upon the One on One/Maximum science Mag Rack television series, which endeavoured to open up the world of science through a selection of interviews. Adam Hart-Davis therefore, a TV personality and a man who not only loves science but embraces it with passion, was chosen to converse with eminent scientists such as John Maynard Smith (Chapter nine - Why we bother with sex), Sir Martin Rees (Chapter twelve - Why we are in the universe/or multiverses) and Eric Lander (Chapter seven - Human genome project) about their work. Now, fourteen of those thought-provoking and informal interviews have been brought together creating a book that offers us not only the background history of the scientist being interviewed but also bringing the motivation and ground-breaking moments of these world leading scientists to our attention and within such frank discussion, tries to explain some of the most important and decisive questions of our age. (Kirkus UK)


Author Information

Adam Hart-Davis is a successful freelance broadcaster, writer and photographer. He is an acclaimed presenter of TV programmes, primarily for the BBC, that make science, technology and history accessible to a wide audience. Before becoming a presenter he was a TV producer on a wide range of programmes for commercial television. Adam Hart Davis holds a Dphil from York University and an MA in Chemistry from Oxford University. He was educated at Eton College. He completed three years post doctoral research in Canada and the UK and several years with Oxford University Press before beginning his television career at Yorkshire Television. Full details of the programmes on which he has worked can be found on his web-site: www.adam-hart-davis.org.

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