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• ISBN: 9780393866704
• ISBN: 039386670X
• Physical Description: xiv, 480 pages ; 24 cmprint
• Edition: First edition.
• Publisher: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
• Copyright: ©2023
• General Note: LSC 42.50
• Formatted Contents Note: 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 ; 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 wind 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 ; 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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