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When Science Goes Wrong: Twelve Tales from the Dark Side of Discovery - Softcover

Levay, Simon

 
9780452289321: When Science Goes Wrong: Twelve Tales from the Dark Side of Discovery
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0452289327 ISBN 13: 9780452289321
Verlag: Plume, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

A revealing study of scientific failure provides twelve shocking stories drawn from a range of scientific fields, ranging from a surprise hurricane that makes violent landfall despite forecasters claims that it does not exist, to a team of scientists that ignores signs of an imminent eruption to hike into a supposedly dormant volcanic crater. Original.

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Simon LeVay is a British-born neuroscientist who has served on the faculties of Harvard Medical School and the Salk Institute. He is best known for his brain research and work on the biology of sexual orientation. LeVay is the author of Human Sexuality (with Sharon Valente) and The Sexual Brain, among other books. He has also written for Scientific American, New Scientist, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and has appeared on Oprah. LeVay lives in West Hollywood, CA.

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Verlag
Plume
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0452289327
ISBN 13 
9780452289321
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
287
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