Professor Lord Robert Winston

Bad Ideas?

An arresting history of our inventions

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Produktbeschreibung

Inspiring, unusual and at times controversial, Bad Ideas? In so doing it celebrates man's extraordinary capacity for achievement and offers a hopeful way forward to protect humanity against what sometimes seem like bad ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bantam / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 605738
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 128mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780553819557
• ISBN-10: 0553819550
• Artikelnr.: 32102535

Autorenporträt

Robert Winston is one of Britain's best-known scientists. As Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College, London, and an active researcher in reproductive physiology, he has made advances in fertility medicine. His television series including The Human Body, Child of Our Time , Human Instinct, The Story of God and A Child Against All Odds have made him a household name. He became a life peer in 1995.

Rezensionen

A provocative inversion of traditional histories of scientific ingenuity ... by the end I realised that what Winston's own powerful and well-paced narration had opened my eyes to was the importance of the non-scientific being better informed. Christina Hardyment The Times