Intersections
Subtitle: essays in the sciences and humanities
By: [compiled by] Steven D. Scott, Don Perkins, Erika Rothwell
Publisher: Prentice Hall Allyn & Bacon Canada
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Scarborough, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780136800590
Subjects: College readers; Essays; Readers; Science; Humanities; English language; Rhetoric; Anglais (Langue); Lectures et morceaux choisis (Enseignement supérieur); Essais (Genre littéraire); Lectures et morceaux choisis; Sciences; Humanités; Rhétorique
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The pleasures and pains of coffee / Honore de Balzac; title: Why I am not going to buy a computer / Wendell Berry; title: Liftoff / Roberta Bondar; title: A facle for tomorrow / Rachel Carson; title: Political economy / Samuel L. Clemens; title: Eat your hearts out cinephiles, the tube is where it's at / John Haslett Cuff; title: Introduction to Radioactive substances / Marie Curie; title: Excerpt from The Origin of species / Charles Darwin; title: Doomsday / Paul Davies; title: Frauds on the fairies / Charles Dickens; title: Living like weasels / Annie Dillard; title: The ghost's vocabulary / Edward Dolnick; title: Letter to my son / Umberto Eco; title: Straight talk at the Parakeet Cafe / Jan Furlong; title: Bred in the bone / Alan Goodman; title: The monster's human nature / Stephen Jay Gould; title: Charles Darwin's tree of life / O.B. Hardison; title: What is an elementary particle / Werner Heisenberg; title: A person paper on purity in language / Douglas Hofstadter; title: Women in chemistry before 1900 / Sherida Houlihan and John H. Woitz; title: Myth and malevolence / Michael Ignatieff; title: The atom's image problem / Jay Ingram; title: Clone mammals ... clone man / Axel Kahn; title: Why Johnny can't think / Walter Karp; title: India / Perri Klass; title: The route to normal science / Thomas S. Kuhn; title: Sense and sensibility / Lewis H. Lapham; title: A, b, and c : the human element in mathematics / Stephen Leacock; title: Finger-pointing / Robert W. Lucky; title: Beginning to understand the beginning / Rick McConnell; title: Why the deficit is a godsend / Walter Russell Mead; title: Behind the formaldehyde curtain / Jessica Mitford; title: The revival of handicraft / William Morris; title: State-of-the-art car : the ferrari testarossa / Joyce Carol Oates; title: Politics and the English language / George Orwell; title: Crocodiled moats in the kingdom of letters / Cynthia Ozick; title: Lessons from play : lessons from life / Henry Petroski; title: The way we woo / Heather Pringle; title: Marie Curie and Mileva Einstein Maric / Hilary Ross; title: The English Villa, from the Poetry of Archictecture / John Ruskin; title: A mask on the face of death / Richard Selzer; title: The road from Rio / David Suzuki; title: A modes proposal / Jonathan Swift; title: The ponds, from Walden / Henry David Thoreau; title: Ghosts in the machine / Sherry Turkle; title: Molecular structure of nucleic acids : a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid / J.D. Wastson and F.H.C. Crick; title: Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells / Ian Wilmet; title: Television and reading / Marie Winn; title: How Iraq reverse-engineered the bomb / Glenn Zorpette