The Resource Facing Up : Science and Its Cultural Adversaries, (electronic resource:)
Facing Up : Science and Its Cultural Adversaries, (electronic resource:)
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The item Facing Up : Science and Its Cultural Adversaries, (electronic resource:) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Facing Up : Science and Its Cultural Adversaries, (electronic resource:) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Edition
- Reprint
- Extent
- 306 p.
- Isbn
- 9780674011205
- Label
- Facing Up : Science and Its Cultural Adversaries
- Title
- Facing Up
- Title remainder
- Science and Its Cultural Adversaries
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Annotation
- Cataloging source
- BIP US
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1933-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Weinberg, Steven
- Dewey number
- 500
- Intended audience
- Trade
- Intended audience source
- Harvard University Press
- LC call number
- Q171.W419 2003
- Summary expansion
- In a recent New York Times profile, James Glanz remarked, "Steven Weinberg is perhaps the world's most authoritative proponent of the idea that physics is hurtling toward a 'final theory,' a complete explanation of nature's particles and forces that will endure as the bedrock of all science forevermore. He is also a powerful writer of prose that can illuminate--and sting...He recently received the Lewis Thomas Prize, awarded to the researcher who best embodies 'the scientist as poet.'" Both the brilliant scientist and the provocative writer are fully present in this book as Weinberg pursues his principal passions, theoretical physics and a deeper understanding of the culture, philosophy, history, and politics of science.Each of these essays, which span fifteen years, struggles in one way or another with the necessity of facing up to the discovery that the laws of nature are impersonal, with no hint of a special status for human beings. Defending the spirit of science against its cultural adversaries, these essays express a viewpoint that is reductionist, realist, and devoutly secular. Each is preceded by a new introduction that explains its provenance and, if necessary, brings it up to date. Together, they afford the general reader the unique pleasure of experiencing the superb sense, understanding, and knowledge of one of the most interesting and forceful scientific minds of our era
- Label
- Facing Up : Science and Its Cultural Adversaries, (electronic resource:)
- Control code
- OCM1bookssj0000645750
- Dimensions
- 09.250 x 06.125 in.
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- Reprint
- Extent
- 306 p.
- Governing access note
- Available for distribution in: UNITED KINGDOM, USA, AUSTRALIA
- Isbn
- 9780674011205
- Other control number
- 9780674011205
- Other physical details
- ill
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)ssj0000645750
- Label
- Facing Up : Science and Its Cultural Adversaries, (electronic resource:)
- Control code
- OCM1bookssj0000645750
- Dimensions
- 09.250 x 06.125 in.
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- Reprint
- Extent
- 306 p.
- Governing access note
- Available for distribution in: UNITED KINGDOM, USA, AUSTRALIA
- Isbn
- 9780674011205
- Other control number
- 9780674011205
- Other physical details
- ill
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)ssj0000645750
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