ISBN: 9780140084795 - granta 16: science (granta: the magazine of new writing) (26 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: New. For the last thirty or forty years, it has been a commonplace that science and literature don't mix. But recently science writing has undergone a revival and has come to constitute a literature in itself. What accounts for its sudden appeal? That attraction of facts? Or the possibility that 'facts' are themselves inventions of the most spectacular kind?Granta 16, 'Science' is devoted to representing part of this revival. In 'Excesses', Oliver Sacks describes individuals suffering from not only too much personality but too many. In 'Amazon', Eugene Richards and Dorothea Lynch document the terrible mystery of illness and the body. The sexuality of tortoises, the lunacy of invention, the bizarre mating habits of a tropical rodent, the zoo-like existence of the young scientists of Reagan's Star Wars - all invite us to understand 'science' not simply as the study of fact but also as another way, not unlike the novel, of describing the mystery of the world.…

Condición: New. pp. 256.

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STIFF PAPER ILLUSTRATED WRAPS. Condición: Very Good. NO DUST JACKET AS ISSUED. FIRST EDITION THUS. 256 PAGES.THIS MAGAZINE, "GRANTA 16 - SCIENCE" -SUMMER, 1985 CONTAINS A SHORT TALE BY DAVID MAMET ON PAGES 169 -173. THE TALE IS ABOUT A "SALVADORE DALI" LIKE DREAM SEQUENCE ABOUT NUCLEAR WAR, MURDER AND DREAMING, AN UNUSUAL TOPIC FOR MAMET AT THIS STAGE OF HIS WRITING CAREER. THE MAGAZINE ALSO CONTAINS MATERIALS BY ITALO CALVINO, OLIVER SACHS, STEVEN JAY GOULD, TIM O'BRIEN AND OTHERS REGARDING THE TOPICS OF "SCIENCE" AND "FICTION AND THE BOMB." THERE IS A SINGLE CREASE ACROSS THE FRONT COVER AND CORNER CREASES OF THE FRONT COVER. Size: 5 3/4" x 8 1/4".…

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Paperback. Condición: New. For the last thirty or forty years, it has been a commonplace that science and literature don't mix. But recently science writing has undergone a revival and has come to constitute a literature in itself. What accounts for its sudden appeal? That attraction of facts? Or the possibility that 'facts' are themselves inventions of the most spectacular kind?Granta 16, 'Science' is devoted to representing part of this revival. In 'Excesses', Oliver Sacks describes individuals suffering from not only too much personality but too many. In 'Amazon', Eugene Richards and Dorothea Lynch document the terrible mystery of illness and the body. The sexuality of tortoises, the lunacy of invention, the bizarre mating habits of a tropical rodent, the zoo-like existence of the young scientists of Reagan's Star Wars - all invite us to understand 'science' not simply as the study of fact but also as another way, not unlike the novel, of describing the mystery of the world.…

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