The World's 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems
Language: English
Published by Prentice Hall PTR, 2005
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669 pages. Spine cockedWhen Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dre aded disorder of movement, mind, and mood her neighbors called St.Vitus's dance. Doctors later spoke of Huntington's chorea, and today it is known as Huntington 's disease. This book is the first history of Huntington's in America. Startin g with the life of Phebe Hedges, Alice Wexler uses Huntington's as a lens to exp lore the changing meanings of heredity, disability, stigma, and medical knowledg e among ordinary people as well as scientists and physicians. She addresses thes e themes through three overlapping stories: the lives of a nineteenth-century fa mily once said to belong to the disease; the emergence of Huntington's chorea as a clinical entity; and the early-twentieth-century transformation of this disor der into a cautionary eugenics tale. In our own era of expanding genetic technol ogies, this history offers insights into the social contexts of medical and scie ntific knowledge, as well as the legacy of eugenics in shaping both the knowledg e and the lived experience of this disease.…
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- Title
- The World's 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems
- Author
- John R. Vacca
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall PTR
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0131426435
- ISBN 13
- 9780131426436
- Dimensions
- 23.4cm x 16.1cm
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Gain extensive knowledge of the most challenging scientific problems and learn from more than 60 of the world’s foremost scientists―among them, 40 Nobel laureates! Expand your horizons with a wide range of advanced scientific theories and techniques on problems concerning:
- Permanently storing nuclear waste or eliminating it altogether
- Harvesting energy from a reaction similar to that of the sun
- Earthquake prediction
- The creation of the universe
- Comprehension of free will
- The mystery of dark matter
- The cosmological constant problem
- The construction of a consistent quantum theory of gravity
- And much more
Science has reached dazzling heights of discovery, transforming civilization in the process. And yet, some of the most fundamental questions remain unsolved! In The World’s 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems, John Vacca―together with more than 60 of the world’s most highly respected scientists―explains these problems in detail and describes the intellectual and technological hurdles to be overcome in order to solve them.
This book is indispensable for science buffs, teachers, students, and scientists who want to keep pace with the latest developments. The World’s 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems delves deep into mysteries such as the creation of the universe, dark matter, the quantum theory of gravity, protein folding, free will, consciousness, earthquake prediction, Fullerenes, the quantum mechanical vacuum, storing or eliminating nuclear waste, and more. No other resource explains science’s most compelling dilemmas with such clarity and authority, and nowhere else can you share the expertise of so many brilliant minds! You’ll find
- Complex topics made intelligible, as only experts in their fields can
- Coverage of the key problems expected to dominate the next 40 years of scientific research
The World’s 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems is must reading for anyone teaching science or performing scientific research. It also will fascinate the moderately technical reader or scientific novice.
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About the Author
John R. Vacca is an information technology consultant and internationally known, best-selling author based in Pomeroy, Ohio. Since 1982, John has authored 42 books and more than 550 articles. John has a rich background in technology and science as a former configuration management specialist, computer specialist, and the computer security official (CSO) for NASA’s space station program (Freedom) and the international space station program, from 1988 until his early retirement from NASA in 1995. John was also one of the security consultants for the MGM movie AntiTrust, which was released on January 12, 2001. In addition to his many writing projects, John is a freelance editorial reviewer for online retailers.
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