No Way

Edité par W. H. Freeman and Company, New York

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Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: The Nature of the Impossible. CONTENTS: Introduction; MOUNTAINEERING 1. Everest and the Impossible - Scott Lankford BIOLOGY 2. Are There Biological Impossibilities? - Michael J. Katz 3. On Impossibility in Biology - Michael Yarmolinsky MEDICINE 4. Impossibility in Medicine - James S. Goodwin and Jean M. Goodwin 5. The Impossible in Medicine - Jeremiah A. Barondess 6. Impossibilities in Chemistry: Their Rise, Nature, and Some Great Falls - Walter J. Gensler COMPUTER SCIENCE 7. Limits and Inadequacies in Artificial Intelligence - Ernest Davis TECHNOLOGY 8. The Impossible in Technology: When the Expert Says no - M. D. Sturge PHYSICS 9. When Nature Says no - David Park MATHEMATICS 10. When Mathematics Says No - Philip J. Davis; Intermission; LAW 11. Promises and Impossibility - Thomas E. Foster POLITICS 12. Impossibility in Government and Foreign Policy - Adam Yarmolinsky ECONOMICS 13. An Impossible Economist - Juergen G. Backhaus PSYCHOLOGY 14. Paradoxes of Parenthood: On the Impossibility of Raising Children Perfectly - Sophie Freud EDUCATION 15. Is Education a Science? No Way! - Richard P. Iano POETRY 16. Poetry and the Impossible - Kinereth Gensler MUSIC 17. Largo Prestissimo Assai: The Outer Edges of Music - Everett Hafner PHILOSOPHY 18. What Can Be Known? - T. E. Burke; Taking Leave; About the Authors; Index. SYNOPSIS: What do we really mean when we say something is impossible? How does the prospect of impossibility shape our outlook and direct our struggles? In this unique, mind-opening book, twenty writers--from the poet to the mountain climber, the biologist to the chemist, the musician to the philosopher, the lawyer to the economist--probe the idea of the impossible. Each contributor explores the challenges, goals, limits, and illusions of the frontiers of human endeavor. The essays carry us into original, thought-provoking territory, where we discover that the notion of impossibility is surprisingly important to our visions and our very sense of self. Philip J. Davis is co-author, with Reuben Hersh, of Descartes' Dream and of The Mathematical Experience, which won an American Book Award. He teaches mathematics at Brown University. David Park, winner of a Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award for The Image of Eternity, teaches physics at Williams College. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

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No Way
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Davis, Philip J. and Park, David (Edited by)
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W. H. Freeman and Company, New York
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