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Entropy and the Magic Flute.
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...
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1993.
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| 505 | 0 | |6 880-01 |a Introduction; I; 1. Entropy and the Magic Flute; 2. The Perversion of J. Willard Gibbs; 3. Les Atomes; 4. Tricentennial; 5. Albertus Magnus; 6. Fundamental Laws of Nature; II; 7. Jesus, Moses, Aristotle, and Laboratory Animals; 8. Tubes; 9. Humans, Animals, and Physicians' Waiting Rooms; 10. The Oath; 11. Autism and Authority; 12. The Missing Volumes; 13. The Smoking Gun; III; 14. Just Say No; 15. The Fromagification of America; 16. Killer Cheese; 17. A Bioenergeticist's Revenge; 18. A Two-Coffee Culture; 19. Deliver Us; IV; 20. Roots of an American Tail; 21. Justice. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 22. The Sidewalks of New York23. Brighten the Corner Where You Are; 24. Nixon and Thermodynamics; 25. ""George Mason, One of Our Really Great Men""; V; 26. Koobi Fora; 27. Clitoridectomy; 28. Mammals I Have Known; 29. Daibutsu and Descartes; 30. Tatami Taxonomy; 31. Madame Pele; 32. The Sociology of Palo Alto Coffee Shops; VI; 33. Dirty Neoplatonists; 34. Quadrivial Pursuits; 35. Twenty Books Clad in Black or Red; 36. The Litmus Test; 37. Expertise; 38. The Afternoon Session; 39. Literati; 40. Potlatch; VII; 41. What Is Life? Now Is the Time to Find Out; 42. Brekekekex, Ko-ax, Ko-ax! | |
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