An edition of Intersections
(1999)
Intersections
essays in the sciences and humanities
by Steven D. Scott, Don Perkins, and Erika Rothwell
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Intersections: essays in the sciences and humanities
1999, Prentice Hall Allyn & Bacon Canada
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Table of Contents
The pleasures and pains of coffee / Honore de Balzac
Why I am not going to buy a computer / Wendell Berry
Liftoff / Roberta Bondar
A facle for tomorrow / Rachel Carson
Political economy / Samuel L. Clemens
Eat your hearts out cinephiles, the tube is where it's at / John Haslett Cuff
Introduction to Radioactive substances / Marie Curie
Excerpt from The Origin of species / Charles Darwin
Doomsday / Paul Davies
Frauds on the fairies / Charles Dickens
Living like weasels / Annie Dillard
The ghost's vocabulary / Edward Dolnick
Letter to my son / Umberto Eco
Straight talk at the Parakeet Cafe / Jan Furlong
Bred in the bone / Alan Goodman
The monster's human nature / Stephen Jay Gould
Charles Darwin's tree of life / O.B. Hardison
What is an elementary particle / Werner Heisenberg
A person paper on purity in language / Douglas Hofstadter
Women in chemistry before 1900 / Sherida Houlihan and John H. Woitz
Myth and malevolence / Michael Ignatieff
The atom's image problem / Jay Ingram
Clone mammals ... clone man / Axel Kahn
Why Johnny can't think / Walter Karp
India / Perri Klass
The route to normal science / Thomas S. Kuhn
Sense and sensibility / Lewis H. Lapham
A, b, and c : the human element in mathematics / Stephen Leacock
Finger-pointing / Robert W. Lucky
Beginning to understand the beginning / Rick McConnell
Why the deficit is a godsend / Walter Russell Mead
Behind the formaldehyde curtain / Jessica Mitford
The revival of handicraft / William Morris
State-of-the-art car : the ferrari testarossa / Joyce Carol Oates
Politics and the English language / George Orwell
Crocodiled moats in the kingdom of letters / Cynthia Ozick
Lessons from play : lessons from life / Henry Petroski
The way we woo / Heather Pringle
Marie Curie and Mileva Einstein Maric / Hilary Ross
The English Villa, from the Poetry of Archictecture / John Ruskin
A mask on the face of death / Richard Selzer
The road from Rio / David Suzuki
A modes proposal / Jonathan Swift
The ponds, from Walden / Henry David Thoreau
Ghosts in the machine / Sherry Turkle
Molecular structure of nucleic acids : a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid / J.D. Wastson and F.H.C. Crick
Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells / Ian Wilmet
Television and reading / Marie Winn
How Iraq reverse-engineered the bomb / Glenn Zorpette
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