Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking - Hardcover

Seife, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670020338 ISBN 13: 9780670020331

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2008

Synopsis

The author of Zero chronicles the last half century's haphazard attempt to harness fusion energy, describing how governments and research teams throughout the world have employed measures ranging from the controversial to the humorous, in an account that also summarizes the ITER international fusion project. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

aWritten with clarity and infectious enthusiasm that are rare in science writing. . . . "Zero" is really something.a
--"The Washington Post"

"Substantive and libely...Seife writes with effortless clarity."
--"New York Times Book Review" " A must-read for anyone who wants to know the story behind ongoing multibillion-dollar attempts at bottling up the sun."
-"Science News"

About the Author:

Charles Seife is the author of five previous books, including Proofiness and Zero, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for first nonfiction and was a New York Times notable book. He has written for a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, Wired, New Scientist, Science, Scientific American, and The Economist. He is a professor of journalism at New York University and lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0670020338
• ISBN 13: 9780670020331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294