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Title: Eyewitness to Science by John Carey ISBN: 0-674-28755-X Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Delightful anthology of science writing
Comment: John Carey's Eyewitness to Science is identical to The Faber Book of Science except for the cover and weight of the paper stock used. Since the latter is now out of print, those of you who have missed the opportunity to read this delightfully eclectic anthology of science writing may wish to consult this edition before it, too, goes out of print.
Rating: 5
Summary: A choppy book about great connections in the web of nature
Comment: As a geologist, I read the samples that seemed relevant first, and found many surprising and wonderful things like Huxley's geology of Europe derived partly from careful observations of a piece of chalk. I went on to read biology, physics, poetry and abnormal sex. I am teaching a freshman literature class this winter quarter and managed to lighten up Conrad's gloomy brooding view that we evolved from soulless animals by reading Cumming's (Pg 262) retort; "As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?"
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Title: Eyewitness to History by John Carey ISBN: 0380729687 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Eyewitness to America: 500 Years of America in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen by David Colbert ISBN: 067976724X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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