About this title: Harold Morowitz has long been regarded highly both as an eminent scientist and as an accomplished science writer. The essays in The Wine of Life, his first collection, were hailed by C.P. Snow as "some of the wisest, wittiest and best informed that I have read," and Carl Sagan called them "a delight to read." In later volumes such as Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life and The Thermodynamics of Pizza, he has established a reputation for a wide-ranging intellect, an ability to see unexpected connections and draw striking parallels, and a talent for communicating scientific ideas with optimism ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780195081992ISBN:0195081994
Description: Hardcover, 224 pp, Very Good in Near fine Jacket in mylar protector with flaps taped to eps. Solid with clean text. Ex library with usual marks and cardpocket. , 0195081994. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780195111347ISBN:0195111346
Description: Like New. 5.5 x 8.5. Minor shelf wear, xiv + 224 pp, essays on everything from atoms to the hippopotamus with a stops at Palo Alto coffee shops, cheese toppings and lots of other places, 49 essays. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195081992ISBN:0195081994
Description: Fine. 0195081994 Dust jacket shows light tanning and creasing at top edge, with a small cut on the back flap of dust jacket. Book itself is new. No marks. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1993
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780195081992ISBN:0195081994
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Quarter-cloth. 224 pages. No ownership, remainder or other marks. Dust jacket is unclipped and protected in mylar. A lovely copy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OUP USA
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780195111347ISBN:0195111346
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780195081992ISBN:0195081994
Description: First edition-h/c in d.j. Harold Morowitz has long been regarded highly both as an eminent scientist and as an accomplished science writer. Once again the author offers an appealing mix of brief reflections on everything from litmus paper to the hippopotamus to the sociology of Palo Alto coffee shops. Many of these pieces are appreciations of scientists that Morowitz holds in high regard. 218 x 150mm., pp. xiv, 224, FINE/FINE. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780195111347ISBN:0195111346
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 203x135. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (238) now available in paperback, entropy and the magic flute, offers an appealing mix of brief reflections on everything from litmus paper to the hippopotamus to the sociology of palo alto coffee shops. many of these pieces are appreciations of scientists that morowitz holds in high regard. others focus on health issues-such as america's obsession with cheese toppings and the addiction to smoking of ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OUP USA
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780195111347ISBN:0195111346
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