Science in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide - Rilegato

Van Riper, A. Bowdoin

 
9780313318221: Science in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0313318220 ISBN 13: 9780313318221
Casa editrice: Greenwood Pub Group, 2002

Sinossi

Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are healed with the wave of a medical gizmo. The media makes it all look easy. Can scientists hope to accomplish such amazing feats in the real world, or are they merely flights of fancy? This book is a fun look at what can, and can't, be achieved with current technology in today's laboratory experiments.

Fans of the Jetsons, Star Trek, and Star Wars will learn the facts behind the fiction through entires that describe the scientific inventions and procedures on the screen, and how they differ from the reality. Van Riper shows us who innovators like Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, and Isaac Newton really were before they were mythologized. He discusses how animals such as chimpanzees, dolphins, and elephants are portrayed in books and films, and what we really know about animal intelligence. This book lifts the curtain on science fiction, revealing how and where scientific laws have been discarded for the sake of a good plot.

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Informazioni sugli autori

A. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER is a professor in the Department of Social and International Studies at Southern Polytechnic State University. He specializes in the history of science and has written numerous articles on the history of space and aviation.



A. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER is a professor in the Department of Social and International Studies at Southern Polytechnic State University. He specializes in the history of science and has written numerous articles on the history of space and aviation.

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Editore
Greenwood Pub Group
Data di pubblicazione
2002
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0313318220
ISBN 13 
9780313318221
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
314
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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