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Between science and values / Loren R. Graham.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 1981Description: x, 449 sISBN:
  • 0231051921
  • 023105193X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4/83
Contents:
Pt. 1.; The physical sciences:; Physical knowledge and values:; The new physics --; Physical knowledge and society:; Eddington and the English-speaking world ;; Fock and the Soviet Union ;; Heisenberg and Germany ;; Bergson, Monod, and France --; pt. 2.; The biological sciences:; Biological knowledge and values:; Studying animals to learn about man ;; Primatology and sociobiology --; Biological knowledge and society:; Eugenics: Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia ;; Biomedical ethics --; pt. 3.; Reactions to the dilemma of science and values:; Public concerns about science and technology: the question of limits of inquiry --; Attempts to provide a philosophical overview --; pt. 4.; What kind of expansionism do we want?:; Science and values: attempts at historical understanding
Summary: Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated
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Pt. 1.; The physical sciences:; Physical knowledge and values:; The new physics --; Physical knowledge and society:; Eddington and the English-speaking world ;; Fock and the Soviet Union ;; Heisenberg and Germany ;; Bergson, Monod, and France --; pt. 2.; The biological sciences:; Biological knowledge and values:; Studying animals to learn about man ;; Primatology and sociobiology --; Biological knowledge and society:; Eugenics: Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia ;; Biomedical ethics --; pt. 3.; Reactions to the dilemma of science and values:; Public concerns about science and technology: the question of limits of inquiry --; Attempts to provide a philosophical overview --; pt. 4.; What kind of expansionism do we want?:; Science and values: attempts at historical understanding

Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated

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