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• ISBN: 9780393866704
• ISBN: 039386670X
• Physical Description: xiv, 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023]
• Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface -- Part one: Inventors. The message -- The hustler -- The promise -- The electrician -- The jubilee -- Part two: Scientists. The wayward wind -- The soda machine -- The tire prints and the smoke menace -- The geophysical experiment -- The overwhelming desire -- The fine noses -- The moles -- The brakes and the Indian -- The Yamal and the fence - come north with me -- The global computer model -- The wood chips and the malaise -- The frog -- The unwarranted and alarmist report -- The undoing of Thomas Midgley -- The undoing II--red days -- The home of Donna Reed -- The pirate -- The pilot lights and somebody's world -- Mark Mills -- Part three: Deniers. Old judge, or tobacco killed a cat -- Stocking and chairs -- Genetics -- A scientific gymnastic feat -- Wall of flesh -- Simple annihilation -- >First class -- Philosophers and priests -- Counterblaste -- A czarina enjoys the corporate Christmas party -- S. -- Emperor of the universe -- Who digested the scientists? -- Millions of guinea pigs -- Dinosaurs -- Committee on the care of children -- An exceptional case -- "Arthur Robinson is a good scientist"--Arthur Robinson -- Arthur and the world -- Jason Bourne's crestfallen itinerary -- An unexpected gift -- Editing turns the mild into weather gods -- ASS and chair -- Glengarry Glen Monckton -- The business cards and the straight noodle -- Epilogue: The parrot and the igloo.

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